CPL assists Bristol Vision 2017
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Mike Radford project-managed for CPL, working with a crew of four and closely with Bright’s production manager Fleur Saynor. The team covered several different areas including a main plenary space, associated break-out rooms in the Pegg Theatre and AR Bar, reception / check-in and a café / open / meeting space complete with a number of exhibition display booths.
It was a busy day for the 200 delegates who could catch 18 keynote speakers and engage in a range of digital and media-related commercial and business activities.
In the main plenary room, CPL rigged a central 16ft x 9ft screen at the back of the stage which was flown on the house trussing, and either side of that was a pair of portrait format projection screens. These two portrait screens made use of Rigtec’s handy portrait flying frames and single point truss adaptors.
Screen content was delivered from a range of Dell and MacBook laptops provided as part of the production brief, with many speakers also providing their own machines which had to be hooked into the system.
All of the sources were fed through one of CPL’s Barco S3 processors running Event Manager software which was the central hub for all inputs which were then routed to multiple destinations. To ensure that all the stage presentations could be seamlessly integrated into the system, a Barco ImagePRO-II scaler / switcher was also utilized enabling different sources to be quickly switched at the lectern. A 46’’ Samsung was provided as a preview monitor for the speakers.
A d&b Y7P point source audio system was installed comprising four speakers and two V-SUBS, the latter positioned at the back of the stage behind the draped wall, all driven by d&b D20 amps with a Yamaha QL1 for control. A mix of Shure UR1 lapel and UR2 hand-held radio mics were supplied for speaker reinforcement.
For lighting, the house fixtures were used.
The two breakout rooms in the Pegg Theatre and the AR Bar were each kitted out with a projection system including a Panasonic EZ 770 projector mounted on a Rigtec single point truss adaptor, clamped to a house truss, feeding an 8ft 9’’ by 4 ft 11’’ screen.
There was an HDMI / VGA feed from the lecterns and a basic d&b E8 audio system powered by D20 amps with Allen & Heath Qu-16 mixer plus a selection of Sennheiser G3 tie-clip and hand-held mics.
At the end of the daytime sessions, the AR 2 Bar was transformed into the afterparty area, so CPL had an hour to turn it into a funky dinner environment with a DJ set up.
They stripped out the E8s and installed the more powerful Y7P speakers complete with v-subs and kitted out the DJ booth with a Pioneer DJM 800 mixer and CDJ2000 decks.
CORE ColourPoint2 wireless battery powered LED uplighters were deployed around the room grazing up the walls of the room, adding colour and vibrancy. These extremely handy fixtures are a new investment for CPL, and four Claypaky Mythos moving lights were installed on draped flightcases around the room to add more colour, movement and aerial effects.
(Jim Evans)
