This meeting was really great from a presentation standpoint: 84′ wide screen (3 project blend = 5700px wide x 1080px tall) with a 30″ x 7″ PPT. Then 16×9 PIPs for the presenter presentations (each a 1080p HD projection field). This is the general session look. For the awards, I was able to design the presentation to use the entire (Mega) wide screen (no PIPs).
(Yes, that is me)
– Troy @ TLC
Here is an awards show from a recent meeting. The screen was over 80′ wide and was run from a single PPT computer (with a backup computer inline as well).
To do this and keep really high quality display, the screen uses three slightly overlapped projectors – 3 blend projection. There is a lot of specialty equipment between the PPT computer and the projector. But getting there creates a smooth, single image. If you look at this image, you can see the three projector fields (this is before the projectionist adjusted the levels to make all uniform).
– Troy @ TLC
Backstage in Palos Verdes, CA (the Terranea Resort is a great property). Note the small 7″ USB monitor in the center of my show computers (not the 14″ version in the previous post).
– Troy @ TLC
I work in a lot of locations that are not my office – where I have dual 23″ monitors, my favorite keyboard, mouse, track pad and really great speakers. What do I miss the most when I setup a temporary work station at a show? The extra monitor.
On the second monitor, for PPT, I run the slide show and edit the slides on primary monitor or if editing a highly animated section, I have a very large animation pane on it. I also use it for email, Windows Explorer windows and Lync.
For a few years, I have traveled with a small 7″ USB monitor, which was nice, but not really fully functional. Enter my newest “toy” – the Toshiba PA3923U-2LC3, a 14″ USB monitor that is automatically recognized by Windows 7 and Mac OS Lion. And it’s more portable than the smaller monitor by folding into a thin portfolio case.
Here is my production computer at my temporary, backstage “office” on showsite this week in Puerto Rico.
– Troy @ TLC
As part of the new design offices and needing new business cards, signage and everything else, Lori took on the task of updating our company logo – which was last revised in 2006.
All the same information, just some updated styling on the “TLC ” spheres (now vector art) and a more streamlined and modern linear feel to the text.
Look for it on the blog, website and where ever else the TLC logo appears.
– Troy @ TLC
I wrapped up 2011 with this show in Las Vegas. The staging was fantastic – with 3 large presentation screens and lots of stage lighting (fantastic LD on this event)!
My world consisted of a month of presentation design and one very long and very full table of computers to run everything onsite.
– Troy @ TLC
Just wrapped up a show at the La Costa Resort in San Diego. Great event, super crew and good client. All of the presentations ran smoothly and it was fun as I spent much of my youth growing up right there in La Costa.
– Troy @ TLC
Created in PPT 2010 in less than 5 minutes – download here. (51K)
2012 is going to be a great year – and the regular blog posts resume this week!
– Troy @ TLC
While on a show in Miami this month (great show with fantastic presentation design requests – more about this next month), the crew dinner was at “Burgers and Beer Joint.” The food was great in a very crowded place and the menu featured the hamburger made with 10lbs of ground beef (plus another 10lbs of bun and condiments). Now that was a presentation!
Note: That is an impressive and huge hack saw being used to cut “The Mother Burger” into servings.
– Troy @ TLC
A few weeks ago, I was the lone tech backstage (producer, audio, etc. all front of house). So I handled the graphics computers, video playback and switching (Don’t worry I gave myself “Go” commands to assure everyone stayed in sync).
– Troy @ TLC