Help streaming a funeral

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A close family friend has recently died.

Some relatives live too far too travel so I've been asked to stream it.

Connectivity is good 4G. I've got a decent mobile phone and a laptop I could hotspot. Although a hotspot would be another point of failure.

I'm guessing audio will be a bit rubbish from the phone so could buy a Bluetooth microphone if that would help.

My YouTube account is apparently "not eligible to stream" cos, YouTube reasons.

Any advice would be really useful especially on the:

Platform to use
Any useful hardware

Lots of thanks.....
 
Personally I would refuse to stream it, unpopular opinion perhaps but you intrude on those who have made the journey to make those who didn't feel marginally better while they eat their lunch watching the show.

There are many reasons people cannot make a funeral, it doesn't mean those who do should have their grief broadcast.
 
Raumarik said:
Personally I would refuse to stream it, unpopular opinion perhaps but you intrude on those who have made the journey to make those who didn't feel marginally better while they eat their lunch watching the show.

There are many reasons people cannot make a funeral, it doesn't mean those who do should have their grief broadcast.
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My mother (in her 80s) couldn't go to her brothers funeral. It was livestreamed so she could watch it. Your reply is puerile! It was livestreamed from behind, nobody's face was seen, their grief wasn't broadcast!
 
Raumarik said:
Personally I would refuse to stream it, unpopular opinion perhaps but you intrude on those who have made the journey to make those who didn't feel marginally better while they eat their lunch watching the show.

There are many reasons people cannot make a funeral, it doesn't mean those who do should have their grief broadcast.
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lol wut? I'm sure it'll only be for a select few family members who can't attend. As if anyone would care.
 
Raumarik said:
Personally I would refuse to stream it, unpopular opinion perhaps but you intrude on those who have made the journey to make those who didn't feel marginally better while they eat their lunch watching the show.

There are many reasons people cannot make a funeral, it doesn't mean those who do should have their grief broadcast.
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I've got family all over the world, from Canada to Japan to South Africa and everywhere inbetween. If someone is only able to attend a funeral virtually, then you can bet your bottom dollar that I'd make it happen. I'd notify the "physical" attendees though.
 
Exactly, it's not the queen's funeral.

There are some older relatives in Australia and New Zealand who simply can't make it.

My plan is to simply steam the vicar, the music, maybe the burial. No mourners, no tears, no close-ups!
 
Blueball said:
My mother (in her 80s) couldn't go to her brothers funeral. It was livestreamed so she could watch it. Your reply is puerile! It was livestreamed from behind, nobody's face was seen, their grief wasn't broadcast!
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It's an opinion, we're on the internet.

At both my parents funerals relatives attempted to broadcast them and we stopped it as others were uncomfortable with the idea. I'd hope the OP would at least check with those actually attending before going for it.

If you think that's childish - it's not me that's got the problem.
 
Hodders said:
Exactly, it's not the queen's funeral.

There are some older relatives in Australia and New Zealand who simply can't make it.

My plan is to simply steam the vicar, the music, maybe the burial. No mourners, no tears, no close-ups!
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Reasonable. Apologies if this came across as having a dig. I have some very pushy relatives who thought it would be a great idea to broadcast from the front of the church and didn't take it well when I shut it down.
 
I don't know much about specifics, but would a video chat service (teams / Skype, google meet, zoom, etc) be an option? I'd have thought smartphone camera & mic would be good enough, but a dedicated mic might be helpful especially if you'll be outside at all so might want to fit a wind guard over it or something...

Although have to say whatever service I was using I would try and set expectations that it might all fall over on the day and you'd just have to upload a recording instead.
 
Have you considered setting up a static camera and using teams?

It's not my favourite platform, but it's one which can be easily locked to a specific group. I'd also advise against just flailing your phone around, unless of course you're happy to fix it to a tripod or somewhere that can view the event.
 
It’s a strange world we are living in. This is not something I would ever do or consider.

Fully appreciate the circumstances but I have never seen a family funeral streamed and hope I never do (the Queen being the exception here).

Appreciate this is a tough one OP.
 
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For those with misgivings - I've been asked by the husband of the deceased to do it. My feelings would be to record it and edit it with sensitivity before doing anything else.

But he's asked me to 'just take care of it'. The guy has just so much on his plate at the moment with two young daughters, I just feel I need to give him "consider it done" as a response, not question the ideas.

Any idea how I can make youtube accept my account channel in order to do it?
 
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