WASP3D Augmented Electoral Commission of Zambia
"votes" for WASP3D to broadcast Presidential Elections.

Electoral Commission of Zambia "votes" for WASP3D to broadcast Presidential Elections

WASP3D, a provider of on-air real-time 3D graphics solutions has recently completed an election project with the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) for the coverage of the Presidential Elections.

ECZ, the public broadcaster of Zambia is operated by the government. It awarded the service contract to WASP3D in July for a turnkey solution to execute Presidential elections within a given timeframe. ECZ required WASP3D to create standard on-air news graphics along with the use of interactive application WASPi-Mimosa for election presentations.

Advantages:

The Challenge: Besides the accountability of handling data that is coming live from 156 constituencies, expected votes to come in large numbers and showing all the information to viewers in real-time and analyzing it to derive meaningful information.

The 2016 presidential elections were different and difficult for ECZ in more ways than one. This was the first time that ECZ had decided to cover the presidential elections live and they decided to use real-time 3D graphics to display up-to-date results and analysis.

To broadcast exclusive live coverage, they needed an experienced team to create templates showing vote and polling statistics, historical data, vote swing comparisons, candidate profiles, etc.

Workflow designed by WASP3D for ECZ:

Workflow designed by WASP3D for ECZ: The need of the hour was a robust graphics system that offers rapid creation of rich-looking info-graphics; manage and play out of ECZ election graphics with real-time integration of election data and display across multiple zones on the screen.

Weeks prior to the elections, the WASP3D team completed an analysis of the client requirements and planned out the complete project to make sure the execution is flawless. The WASP design team in India designed the graphic templates as per ECZ requirements and execute the whole project which features:

Realtime Automated Data Integration, the entire process of integration of data with the graphics template was automated. As real-time data was being made available from each constituency, the data would be immediately picked up by WASP3D™.

Live Broadcast with Scores of Full-frame 3D Graphics, depicting various scenarios were generated all through the polling day and the day the votes were counted. The graphics illustrated up-to-the-second developments of elections across Egypt, including – top candidates, the top leading contender, vote share compared with the previous elections, vote swing for or against a particular alliance.

24/7 Live Results with Fully Automated ‘Lower Third’ Besides full-frame graphics, WASP3D™ also aired continuous live results by means of the ‘lower third’ graphic running in an automated mode – 24/7. The ‘lower third’ ran without any manual intervention showing information on each constituency, covering – top leading candidates, national tally, top alliances, candidates likely to become president, etc.

Interactive workflow, using WASPi-Mimosa that enables each graphical element to be data-driven and controlled through any touch gestures thus reducing the possibility of presentation errors while on-air. Anchors can storyboard content and provide in-depth analysis with greater confidence as they have complete control over the graphics presentation.