Award Show/Annual Meeting

Gear List - Awards Room

  • (48) 5mm Video Wall Panels (Dual IMAG)

  • (77) Martin Professional EC-20 Video Panels (Eye-candy)

  • (30) Chauvet Professional Nexus 4x4 RGB (Eye-candy)

  • (48) Martin Professional Mac 101 RGB (Eye-candy)

  • (4) Martin Professional Aura (Front light)

  • (24) Martin Professional Mac III Profile (Audience)

  • (24) Elation Professional Platinum Beam 5r Extreme (Outside)

  • (16) D.A.S. Event 210a Line Array Cabinet

  • (8) D.A.S. Event 218a Dual Subwoofer

  • BlackMagic 1 M/E Switching Package with Canon C300 Cameras

  • MALighting grandMA2 Full Size with 2x NPU

  • Midas M32 Digital Console and DL32 Snake

  • Shure QLXD Wireless

Gear List - Meeting Room

  • (138) 6mm Video Wall Panels (80ft wide 4k screen)

  • (8) Martin Professional Aura (Frontlight/backlight)

  • (8) D.A.S. Event 210a Line Array Cabinet

  • (4) D.A.S. Event 218a Dual Subwoofer

  • BlackMagic 2 M/E Switching Package with Canon C300 Cameras

  • MALighting grandMA2 onPC Command Wing

  • Midas M32 Digital Console and DL32 Snake

  • Shure QLXD Wireless

“Basically, we want this to feel like a Grammy show instead of a corporate event” That’s the line that sticks with me the most from our initial planning meeting. And it’s certainly what made this one a whole lot of fun to design. Our scope included two distinctive goals; provide a functional meeting room with massive screen, and another room with an immersive award show production.

For the award show, I needed fixtures that would provide texture and versatility on the back wall. The last thing I wanted was for the stage to start feeling corporate or familiar as the night progressed. So I made sure that every new person walking onto the stage was accompanied by moving lights, changing video content, and pixel patterns. Additionally, each new segment of the show was was supported by a completely fresh stage look. New colors, new patterns, and new video content. This was in effort to keep the audience engaged and keep the stage looking fresh and exciting throughout the night. As a segment changed, it would often include a video bumper, hype music from the DJ, and a flashy lighting look. As the speaker settled into their position, the lights would morph into a static variation of the transitional look, which also defined the colors and content for the segment.

Video capture was a very important part of this event and having the right operators makes all the difference. Here, @mcsteadi flies a wireless Canon c300 build on his Steadicam rig.

Transitions can be the key factor of an event’s perceived success. So having a DJ for every single stage transition was very important to us and the client.

Oh hey, a picture of me doing a thing.

The Meeting Room

In the meeting space, we needed a screen solution that would reach nearly the entire width of the room. Projection was a preliminary option, but with the unusually low clearance in the venue, limited rigging options, and no space for rear projection, we decided LED panels would be the right choice.

We mapped some target surfaces into the wall for speaker presentations, IMAG, or anything else that needed to live inside a 16:9 container. For transition graphics, keynote presentations, and even some custom video presentations, we utilized the full wall as one massive 4k screen.

Feeding the PIP surfaces was a switcher system bringing in cameras, playbacks, and some graphics.