Festival

Hartpury Equine Centre – Festival of Dressage 2016

01/08/2016 by petermccrea

Production AV were excited to be given the opportunity to be a part of Hartpury’s Festival of Dressage by providing an LED screen solution but also being allowed to trial PanelScore – a product we as a company are involved in developing and feel passionate about seeing succeed in the dressage world and beyond.

6mm Outdoor Festival LED Screen Solution

Hartpury is a local venue which was helpful as it allowed us to turn up the day before the event started and build the screen and set up the hardware needed for PanelScore to function. The screen was 3.2m x 1.8m and built using our Desay 6.25mm LED Panels as they are waterproof which was essential as the screen was outdoors for the week. Using a Barco ScreenPRO II EOC and it’s controller, the laptop running the webpage that had the live scoring was resized to fit the LED screen. Using ground anchors, ratchet straps and weights we secured the screen so that it would remain rigid no matter what the weather conditions were like.

The PanelScore system had five scorers using iPads positioned around the arena and information was sent using a wifi kit set up in the control box to a master laptop that would process and feed data to the webpage. With PanelScore being in its first version there were issues that needed to be ironed out but with riders such as Charlotte Dujardin who’s the most successful British dressage rider of all time and a competitor in the Rio Olympics the crowds were big and when it came to the big stage, PanelScore excelled and provided a new, exciting viewing experience for spectators.

A big thank you again to Hartpury Equine Centre for selecting us for the screen solution but for also being willing to allow us to trial PanelScore with the aims of developing the engagement and excitement for spectators. We hope to be back again next year with an ever improving version and a screen! We also look forward to expanding to other Dressage events in the near future.

Lurgan Park Festival – Queen’s 90th Birthday Party

21/07/2016 by petermccrea

Production AV were pleased to be selected by BNL to provide a LED screen solution for the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations hosted in Lurgan Park. Having done so little work in Northern Ireland in the past, Production AV were excited to work with BNL and provide a top quality service for the people of Lurgan to enjoy.

6mm Outdoor Flown Festival LED Screens

Travelling over the day before, we were on site early and were able to build the screens quickly using our Desay 6.25mm LED Panels, creating two 4.8m x 2.7m 6mm pitch LED Screens using Mobil Tech AlpTek 6.5m stands and truss to fly them off the ground.Two Nova MCTRL660 Processors were used to manage the screen with one being set up to act as a backup to the main processor. Control was set up below the stage where an ImagePRO II Dual was used to feed content to the screen.

An impressive line up for the evening concert included Rod Patterson Session Orchestra, featuring Siobhan Pettit and Aine Whelan with special guest George Jones performing ’90 Years of Music’ as well as award winning Lee Matthews, who recently won best songwriter at the Irish Country Music Awards. The night was ended with a fantastic firework display to end a special night for the Queen and country.

Our thanks to Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council for hosting the event and a big thank you to BNL for choosing us as the screen supplier. We hope this is a beginning of a fruitful partnership.

Cheltenham Literature Festival 2011

20/11/2011 by petermccrea

The Cheltenham Times Literature Festival 2011

Production AV were proud to have provided Video Solutions for three venues on the Montpellier Gardens site for the Cheltenham Times Literature Festival for 2011. Providing Full HD cameras, Full HD vision mixing and data switching equipment to Full HD Barco projectors ensured the images were crisp and detailed.

New for 2011, The Times Cheltenham Literature festival moved to from a range of venues across the town to the new tented village on Montpellier Gardens on the edge to the town centre. Giving the Festival a range of new venues, from the intimate setting of the 300 seat Salon, through the larger Qwerty venue up to the flagship 1000+ seat venue hosted in a fantastic large temporary structure, the site provided a a new dynamic to the event.

The Forum

The video solution for the flagship venue on the site was centred around the 6m Wide Screen with Full HD Barco Projection fed from a Barco Screen ProII. The Other sources came into the Screen ProII at Full HD resolutions, including the camera feed mixed on the Panasonic AV-HS400 vision mixer, from our Sony Full HD EX3 cameras.

To assist with sight line issues and to minimise on the seating take for the high profile events, Production AV provided a hot head system to enable the cameras to be remotely controlled from the backstage video control area.

Our knowledge and experience in processing and handling Full HD signal paths meant that dealing with the long cable runs required in the venue is second nature for the Production AV team, so when adjustments to the build schedule were necessitated, it was no hassle.

Qwerty

The second venue that Production AV provided a solution for was ‘Qwerty’. Offering a slightly more intimate venue seating 300 people this was based on a more traditional but well dressed temporary structure.

The solution was based around a Standard 4:3 solution based on the Barco CLM R10+ 10,000 lumen series projector fed a DVI signal over Fibre to ensure pixel perfect transmission of the signal from the array of sources such as laptops and DVD players from a Barco Screen ProII switcher.

The Salon

The smallest venue on the site was in some ways the most challenging, partly due to the fact that the seating was designed in the round to give the audience the connection to the guest speakers. Providing a solution based around Christie Projection and augmented with plasma screens hung on wing trusses to give better viewing angles for those seated round on the sides of the raked seating.

“Fantastic Working with the team from Production AV”

It was a pleasure working with the team from the Cheltenham Festivals in the run up to, and during the Festival. Feedback after the event from Adrian Hensley, the Festival Production Manager, was generous and glowing – “I wasn’t sure that everything was going to come together – New site, venues, contractors – a lot of unknowns. But the Production AV team were superb – you just got on and did exactly what you said you would do, and without any fuss or problems. It was a pleasure, and I look forward to working with the team from Production AV again in the future”.

We’re looking forward to being involved in 2012.

If you have an event that you require a comprehensive video solution for a single venue to multiples venues over a long period of time, then please do get in touch either by email or by telephone on Local rate 0845 37 000 24 or 01452 372728 .

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