Case Study: Utah Valley University achieves lightning-fast, real-time commencement coverage and instant social sharing with PhotoShelter for Brands

Utah Valley University’s Drive-In Commencement and Convocation

Utah Valley University faced the challenge of celebrating 2020 grads under COVID restrictions, staging multiple drive-in convocations and a main commencement across campus parking lots while keeping students, families and alumni connected in real time. The university needed a fast, reliable way to capture dozens of simultaneous ceremonies and instantly distribute high-quality images for on-campus displays and social channels.

UVU’s photography team routed images straight from six cameras into PhotoShelter, where an editor quickly cropped and organized galleries for the broadcast team and social feeds; they also used PhotoShelter’s FileFlow mobile app and Workspaces for remote collaboration. The result was lightning-fast turnaround—slideshows on big screens and social updates during the ceremony and fireworks—boosting engagement and proving a scalable workflow for future events where guests can even download and share images themselves.

Utah Valley University

August Mille

Director of Photography