Category: Corporate Meetings

USANA Health Sciences

Posted on by God's Peanut Gallery in Corporate Meetings, Entertainment Production, Product Launch

 

How did we do it? Start with great sound. Not sound to make your ears bleed like a rock concert, but sound with the same intensity and clarity. What the leaders of USANA have to say to the crowd is the motivation for their team, so driving the intensity of the event, and hearing what they have to say is essential to success. Next you need great video. With a crowd this size creating intimacy is driven in part by the audience feeling up close and personal with the presenters on the stage. Not everyone can be in the front row, but creating the feeling that they are is what draws them close. The right cameras, plenty of screens and good lighting pull together to make anyone in the room, from the front to the back, feel like they matter to the presenter on the stage. The information that they have to share must be clear, so the visuals are essential as well, all relying on the best projection systems available. Projection is also essential to having a portion of the crowd needing sign language. Although they could have been relegated to sit in an area together, USANA wanted them to sit with their own groups, not isolated. So we added some screens and put the sign language translator in a place for all of the room to see. The other language translations were the easy part…if you can call translations for five languages easy, but through the use of the latest technology, each translation was heard, and the visuals seen, in each of their own languages.

But to add to the excitement we needed to create an atmosphere that reduced the size of the room without looking ominous and obtrusive. Elegant set pieces, lit properly with the ability to change the look for each change in presentation were the answer, but doing them for this scale of a space is a challenge. The pictures below show the results, but to be fair they do not truly do the room justice. As always, the challenge was to continue this drive year after year as the company would grown and change, which is part of the fun of what we do.

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General Electric International Telecast

Posted on by God's Peanut Gallery in Broadcast, Corporate Meetings

When General Electric needed to produce a telecast for their employees to make important, but very sensitive announcements, they asked us to help them find a way to keep it as secure as possible. The solution—bring the broadcast to their own campus. After looking at different sites on their campus, we found a conference room that we could convert to a full scale television production studio. In a matter of hours, their conference room was revised to house two independent sets. The store room at the back of the room became the control booth.
In bringing the studio home, we were able to give them the privacy that they needed, while allowing them the comfort of their own offices, and a virtually unlimited rehearsal schedule. The entire broadcast was sent via satellite and internal
video networks to offices all over the world. Due to the success of the telecast and the control of the sensitive information, GE asked us to come back again for
future programs. When word of the event spread to National City Bank, they asked us to handle their national teleconference to 22 sites around the country. Good news travels fast!

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