Exhibition News Awards – case study
Working with Mash Media , Event Share and Business Design Centre in Islington we recently and successfully produced the 2011 Exhibition News Awards.
The lead up to the event was approx five weeks and one site visit and two production meetings were arranged to get the production right on track. The brief was to create a wow factor in the huge space of the Business Design Centre and factor in the evening would start at 6pm and daylight would prevail until at least 8pm.
The venue provided power and rigging from Outback Rigging and all was smooth in set up and rehearsal.
Technically, setting up two 10,000 lumen projectors and focussing lights in daylight was tricky and we knew final focus would have to be on the fly. Whitwam pulled in trusted partners Imax lighting to provide extra lighting kit and crew and we used Sound Bite for the hire of the D&B PA rig needed to fill the space with sound.
The evening started with Organic Jam from Sternberg who mixed a DJ and Live Violin player and played over dinner and post dinner Alun Chochrane did a very well received stand up before hosting the Awards themselves. With live camera relays, bespoke edit music stings and lighting states for every award we kept the show moving at pace and all 19 awards were delivered on time.
The Business Design Centre is great venue and I recommend it highly. Winter events at night would be easier to work with as the summer sun whilst being nice to be in makes a show look a little pale….
750 guests enjoyed their night our and the winners event more so, the catering was first class and entertainment in the after show bar down stairs seemed to go very well.
I attach a few pics of the event and the following testimonial from Mark Brewster at Mash Media…
“Our event (ExhibitionNews Awards) attracts an audience of people that organise awards events
professionally, day-in day-out. As such, there is significant pressure on us to
deliver an event of the very highest quality. Therefore we only work with
suppliers and partners that we know without question will perform for us.
Having considered a number of awards production specialists, we chose Whitwam
and I am absolutely delighted with that decision.
We bought into your
experience and creativity and the benefits of both of these attributes really
paid off for us. You solved problems before we were aware they existed, you
were flexible, reassuring and very patient. I certainly did not expect the
event to look as beautiful as it did and I put this down to the expertise of
your technicians and the creative vision you brought to the party.
We have been blown away
by the number of gushing emails we have had from the market in response to the
awards. When I consider what the biggest factors were in making the event feel
so unique, so special and so meaningful, I would put the quality of the event
production at the very top of the list.
Without hesitation I
would recommend Whitwam to anyone putting on an awards event (except my
competitors!)
A massive thanks to you and
your team.” Mark Brewster , Mash Media , Awards Director & Head of Events & Partnerships
Thanks for reading
Buz
