Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Alright, what does a soliloquy from Mac... - erm, The Scottish Play - have to do with audio-visual? OK, well, not much. It just seemed a fitting title to a post that mentions three different events scheduled to occur - of course - tomorrow.
Until I get to that point, however, I am going to mention today's events...

We had a site survey to kick off the day. Coming up next month, there is an event taking place at a local school's theater/auditorium (theater + the Scottish Play = another connection). The event planners (not the school) are calling on us to provide a projector and a screen for the event. As a result of the site survey, we will be using a rear-projection screen rather than shooting from the front at an extreme angle as they were originally calling for. While we have projectors that are capable of shooting from at least a 45 degree angle (as we've done in previous events), the site survey revealed that using rear projection is a much better option at this site. For this event, we'll use a 6K Sanyo projector and a Da-Lite Fast Fold screen.
After the survey, we had a quick strike of the lighting at the Simsbury Inn.
This evening, we had only one event to set, tech, and strike at Max's Tavern in Springfield, MA. This wasn't much of a set/tech/strike. All that was used was a laptop and a Logitech presenter. We hooked into the restaurant's flat screen so set and strike was really quick. Tech was relatively nonexistent but the client required that we be onsite during the presentation.
During the rest of the day, we did some (more) clean up in the workshop and had an equipment rental - a 60" flat screen, a TV stand, and some cables (VGA, HDMI, power) - picked up.

On to tomorrow... OK, thanks to my falling asleep while composing this post and waking up at 2 AM and completing it, 'tomorrow' is actually today and 'today' is officially yesterday. I am too tired to come up with a new title for this post. Besides, I like it too much to change it.
So, tomorrow morning we have an early event in New Haven. For this, we are setting up two Behringer speakers and a Countryman mic for the audio and nothing more than a screen for the video.
In the evening, we have two events one in Madison, the other in Old Saybrook. The Madison set is similar to New Haven - a screen, a Shure mic, and a QSC speaker - only this will be one speaker and a lavaliere mic. Old Saybrook only needs the video side - this one needs a projector (likely, a Panasonic) and a screen.

Fortunately, I am not the one scheduled to set the New Haven event so... back to sleep for me!

1 comment:

  1. I love Simsbury Inn. A good friend of mine had his wedding reception there. Fantastic food!

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