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CPL delivers technical elements for AHDB event

CPL delivers technical elements for AHDB event

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) asked West Midlands based Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) to design and deliver the technical elements for their 2018 annual staff conference and awards, which encompassed sound, lighting, video, staging and rigging.

 

The event for 400 delegates was staged in Warwick Hall at the NAEC, Stanleigh. It comprised a fully seated conference presentation during the day, which was transformed into a different setting for the evening’s dinner and awards.

 

The client wanted to use the width-ways orientation of the venue for sightlines, so CPL’s project manager Lee Gruszeckyj proposed a widescreen video blend as a visual starting point to align with the geometry of the space.

 

Challenges included dealing with the room’s sloping floor and an odd shaped roof with lots of ducting and piping, all of which had to be masked without losing height in the beautification process. The 30 ft. wide by 10 ft. high upstage projection screen was flanked by gauze panels.

 

These were flown on the same truss as the screen, and the look was finished with a black backdrop. In front of that was the stage which measured 15 metres wide by 3 metres deep. There was a TV style studio set at one end with a sofa and soft seating for discussion sessions.

 

The screen was fed by two of CPL’s Panasonic 10K laser projectors flown on a front truss utilizing custom frames from sister company Rigtec. The screen blending and projector alignment was achieved using Panasonic’s Auto Screen software, and at the hub of the video control was a Barco S3 for switching and screen management.

 

The sources were stored on a series of laptops running PlaybackPro and PowerPoint, and also which included some bespoke graphics and awards idents crafted especially for the event by AHDB’s in-house graphic design team.

 

A pair of 75 inch LED screens was positioned as repeater screens half way down the arena. Lee Gruszeckyj and the CPL team decided to use lighting, colour, texturing and effects to help transform the room and create a range of different moods and atmospheres.

 

Over 50 moving lights - a combination of Claypaky Sharpys, Mythos and A.Leda K10s fitted with B-Eye lenses, Martin MAC Aura led washes and Robe Spiider LED wash beams - were installed. These were distributed on overhead trusses and across the stage deck.

 

For key lights onstage, ETC ColorSource Spots were chosen, with some Arri L5-Cs LED fresnels added to give the basic stage washes. Lighting was run on an Avolites Quartz console with a Playback wing.

 

The speakers were all D&B E8s. It was a point source system utilising eight speakers, six in the room and two for front fills, running in conjunction with four B4 subs positioned behind the set, mixed via a Yamaha QL1 console.

 

The microphone package included two catch-boxes for the Q&As, eight Shure radios with DPA headsets and two Shure hand-helds as Q&A backups. The lectern was fitted with a Sennheiser ME34, used for presentations and award winner speeches. CPL had a full rig day to get everything installed with a crew of 10 locals and a show crew of four.

 

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