100% agree. The inability to disable both the waiting room and the password does not enhance security and just makes zoom a PIA to use on a regular basis. I get making the waiting room the default, but users should have the ability to disable that and the password at their own risk.
Yeah we really should have the ability to enable/disable with or without password. Not being able to disable waiting room with out a password is a real pain. I am hoping this restriction is removed ASAP
I algo agree, as a host you should let me choose my security settings, in the last 5 months I had no issues working without passcode and waiting room. I need a better user experience for people connecting from different places and devices especially cell pfones.
This is a simple address to send around to people. This way it has the password in the shortened URL and brings people in directly without the waiting room. It also means you can update the zoom meeting / account if you need, without sending around other link. Hope this helps.
Then, in 2009, I approached the original executive producers of the film, local attorneys William B. Hirsch and Scott Verges, and asked to take over the project. They wanted to make an impact on the conversation about the uninsured and I explained to them my vision for not just a film but a community engagement project that would use storytelling in the waiting room at Highland and beyond. I added the location-based storytelling project to the concept proposal, went out and raised the money and the rest is history.
At first we looked at the entire hospital. We sat in on executive staff meetings, visited clinics, observed the ER and ICU, hung out at the bus stop. But it dawned on us that the waiting room was this remarkable manifestation of many of the issues challenging our health care system: lack of primary care, the economy, community violence, mental health. But it was also a profound reflection of community and we were struck at how the diverse collection of humanity were all bound together by shared experience in this one space. It was here that we met CJ, the star nurse in our film, and countless other caregivers and patients that appear in the film.
The Waiting Room is a 2012 American documentary film and social media project directed by Peter Nicks that follows the life and times of patients, doctors, and staff at Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital in Oakland, California.
The project includes a blog which features stories and conversations from the waiting room as well as behind-the-scenes information about the project. Frequent video updates from the project are posted on the blog.[2] These videos examine what life is like in an American public hospital caring for a community of largely uninsured patients.
The project involves placing interactive storytelling booths in hospital waiting rooms.[3] These kiosks will include the live-blogged reports from people living without health insurance, and a unique online portal that will distribute these stories and become an archive for the testimonials that will highlight the urgency of the national dialogue around health care.[4]
The Waiting Room is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Independent Television Service, The Fledgling Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, California Council for the Humanities, the Pacific Pioneer Find, and the San Francisco Film Society. Its key partners include the Bay Area Video Coalition, Active Voice, Pentagram, and The Takeaway. The Waiting Room has also been featured on the New York Times Lens Blog as Videos Worth Watching.[5]
Both The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle named the film on the 10 Best of the Year lists.[6] Critic Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post named The Waiting Room the third best film of 2012. Wrote Hornaday: "This subtle, compassionate tableau lifts the veil on a world often described in terms of squalor and despair, finding the inherent dignity and perseverance therein."[7]The movie holds a "fresh" rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.41/10.[8]
In 2017 I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I decided to film my time in waiting rooms, surgery and chemotherapy. Shot exclusively on the iPhone X, The Waiting Room is an unflinching portrait of the blood, sweat and tears of cancer treatment.
At home I filmed with my teenage son, as we came to terms with how family life was transformed by a year of living with cancer. The Waiting Room challenges the cultural myths that surround this disease, putting under the microscope the language of illness.
Ninichi is a video game music composer, film music composer and composer for digital media. She has worked with a number of indie game studios and film makers to create the soundtracks to various games and films.
Towards the end of last year, I had the pleasure of working on the music to an inspiring short film called The Waiting Room. I connected with experienced filmmaker Dexter Goad, who runs ShadowDogProductions, and am now excited to share with you a short interview with him, which offers some insight into the thinking behind this production...
'My name is Dexter Goad and I've been writing, producing, and Directing films for 15 years. I got into filmmaking because I tried getting my novels published for 10 years to no avail. So I looked into getting one self published. What I discovered is that if you finance your own novel you're considered a hack, pathetic, a loser. Your novel isn't good enough so you had to pay for it yourself. However, if you finance your own music album, your own paintings, your own movies, you're respected as an artist MAKING IT HAPPEN! I've never figured out why this hypocrisy exists, but its a real thing. So, at the time, I was young and I cared what people thought of me & I didn't want to look like a loser. So, I decided to finance a film based on one of my short stories instead of finance the publication of one of my novels. The film turned out horribly, but I discovered I loved filmmaking way more than I'd ever loved novel writing and I've never looked back.'
'Waiting Room is about how we lie to our loved ones to "protect" them. How that can be good or bad, and how our loved ones can often figure out that we're hiding something despite our best efforts. In my experience, people who lie to protect their loved ones are almost always doing so to protect themselves as well.'
'The only nationally known actor in this is Lilianna Ketchman, from the reality show "Dance Moms." She's only ten years old and her background is in dance, but she has an innate ability to act that I think people are going to be impressed by and enjoy. She was impressive enough to me that I shot another short film with her right after Waiting Room and she will be my lead in a mid sized budget horror film we're shooting this summer called "Death's Delay."'
'I thought it would be interesting to explore the concept that everybody in a medical waiting room has their own story and in most cases they're going through something stressful or they wouldn't be there. Even if you're just there for a routine checkup, you're always afraid that they'll find something bad. If you could see stress as a visible thing, I'd imagine a hospital waiting room would be the most thick with it. After this I added in the layer about lying and protecting people with your lies.'
'I don't approach my work in this way. My approach is always to pour as much of myself into the writing and production of a work, then get out of the way and see what happens when people experience it. Because what invariably happens is people will take things from you'd never imagine or expect. That's a really fun part of the process for me.'
I often talk about why filmmaking is the best creative field because its the ONLY creative field that uses all other creative fields. You have writing, acting, music (writing and performing, including singing), photography, sculpture (set building and props), architecture (set building), painting, makeup, hair dressing, clothes making, dance (straight or as stunt choreography), and technically creative fields such as computer graphics and design, editing, and color correction. Literally any creative field you can imagine has been used in film somewhere at some time. I love collaborating with creative people in all these different fields, but I must admit that musicians are some of my favorite people to work with. Probably because I don't have a lick of musical talent myself but wish I did. I'll be producing a musical short film this year and I can't wait.'
'For Waiting Room I needed music specifically composed to the footage because it's such an intimate, personal story - (sometimes you can buy precomposed tracks and drop them in and it's fine for certain types of projects, but this is a character driven piece, so it was important that the music be specific.) Which is why I sought out a professional like Ninichi and I'm very glad I did.'
It's been amazing working with you on the music to the film. Thanks for trusting me with it. Here's a sneak preview (on the right) of some for the music for those wanting to have a little listen.
'This was actually a very smooth, easy shoot. I've been doing this a long time and there used to be some major struggles getting the days shot, but since about 2014 the accumulation of experience and adding really good crew members to the team have combined to streamline the process. For instance, it was nothing in early years to start at 8am and not finish until midnight and that with having had to forgo several shots we really wanted. In the past few years we've been able to start at 9am and finish around 7pm. So it was with Waiting Room. Experience really can be the best time saver there is.
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