LOS ANGELES — The HPA Tech Retreat (www.hpaonline.com), now in its 30th year, will host the production team behind the most subscribed YouTuber in the world, MrBeast. MrBeast's head of post production and executive producer Joshua Kulic, and Shawn Hendrix will take attendees “Behind the Scenes of MrBeast” in a conversation that offers a rare look at MrBeast’s most expensive YouTube video ever made - “2,000 People Fight For $5,000,000” on the road to the Amazon Prime series Beast Games.
The HPA Tech Retreat takes place from February 16th through 20th at The Westin Rancho Mirage Golf Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, CA. The MrBeast panel will be presented on Monday, February 17th during the TR-X sessions.
Jimmy Donaldson, best known by his online alias MrBeast, built his substantial fame as a YouTuber, and then as a businessman and media personality. His YouTube channel has more than 340 million subscribers. MrBeast’s latest production is Amazon Prime Beast Games, a large-scale multi-cam reality TV contest series that is breaking boundaries in the way TV production is recorded, edited and delivered. He is known for pushing creative and technical boundaries, and has merged the fast-paced, highly-dynamic world of YouTube with the rigorous demands of broadcast-level television production. In this session, the team will dive deep into Beast Games Episode Zero. To manage ingest and fast turnaround for editorial, the show utilized an advanced DIT workflow, 25 on-site editors, deployed a 2.5PBs solid-state shared storage road case that was backed up and transported to Greenville, NC, for finishing.
Kicking off a week of Tech Retreat programming, TRX includes panels and discussions, with a closing recap session with Mark Chiolis and Craig German, followed by a networking and cocktails reception. In addition to more than four days of sessions, roundtable discussions and conversation, retreat - which is sold out this year - is also host to the Innovation Zone.