Live Events!

[Captain Pierce]

In an attempt to mostly A) stimulate some more discussion about live events in this newly-expanded forum but also B) show off , I thought I'd post a few pics of some live events that I do that involve camera work.

The first is a yearly event that I've been doing for about six years now, with another one coming up in October. It's a traveling national show, and I believe the city we do it in is the smallest city in the country that hosts it. (And I'll bet you money that my company is the smallest A/V rental outfit in the country that does it. )



These are shots of the main layout. The screens are 15x20 feet, and the projectors are 5000-lumen Panasonic DLP's. In the wide shot, you can see the speakers flown from the ceiling and the camera (used only for I-MAG). Last year was the first year we used our new GL2, every year previous had been a DVX100, but the zoom just wasn't quite enough. (And yes, that's way too much tripod for a GL2. )

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[Captain Pierce]

These are shots of the operator table that it takes to pull this show off (from the year before the other pics). Roughly from left to right, we have 6 Sabine 2.4GHz wireless mic systems, an Allen & Heath 24-channel mixing board (feeding the 6 flown main speakers, 2 flown "side fill" speakers, and a pair of stage monitors), DVD player, SVHS, CD player, a pair of Panasonic video monitors (the right one there is showing an image from our DVX; that year, there was a live cooking demo on the main stage, so the left monitor showed the feed from that camera, a Canon XL1S with the "shoulder mount" mic adapter), an Extron switcher/scaler (to bring all the video sources up to XGA resolution so we only have have one feed up to the projectors), LCD preview and program monitors from the switcher/scaler, light board (in the tall shot in the first post, you can see a Source 4 ellipsoidal pointing to the left, we usually have six of those projecting glass "gobos" on this show), laptops for the "sponsor loop" and the speaker presentations), and the "Voice of God" announcer mic.

 

[Captain Pierce]

This is a show we just got last year, and will do again this October (only days before this year's version of the other show, and oddly enough in the same room ). The camera is a much bigger part of this, with only a few of the presenters bringing PowerPoints.



This is a 9x12' screen with a 3500-lumen projector and the XL1S with the "shoulder mount" adapter again. This was originally supposed to be only I-MAG, but at the last minute the client wanted the event (cooking demonstrations) recorded, so I ran an audio feed from the 10-channel powered mixer into the camera. (The cameraman--which isn't me, I'm hiding behind the pipe-and-drape backstage running the show--was already dragging a video cable behind him, so I figured what could one more cable hurt? )

Didn't grab any pictures of the operator table on this one, but it's basically a scaled-down version of the other show--ElectroVoice powered mixer, a couple of those Sabine wireless (and, BTW, can I just say that lavalier mics and those special jackets that chefs wear just don't mix? ), the same switcher/scaler, the same program monitor and one of the same video monitors for the camera feed... hey, I've only got so much gear to choose from...

So, anybody else got some setups to share?