Retaining Wall Video

I am a Geek AV, and for thirty years, I've sweated the big and small things as producer of meetings, conferences, rallies and sales. Meanwhile, I prepared a list of five special "secrets" I use to ensure that the media meeting will go well. Go right?

You see, the customer has paid a lot of money for video or multimedia piece that will shake the crowd out the cobwebs (or hangover) and get goal-oriented, entrepreneurial and meeting. I want my client to love the video, the only way the customer love it if the public likes.

Well, you can bring to Christopher Walken to float in the air, and if the room is not good, the audience will be distracted and this major piece of engineering, the customer will be contracted through snoozed, ignored or poo-poo'd for reasons that have nothing to do with media quality.

Everything in the room. This is a group experience, and just like in a movie theater, many things come together to make the right experience.

Tip One: That the video is seen.

You must create a theatrical experience. Using a TV monitor, or even a large screen for an audience of more than 5 or 10 people is folly.

Video projectors are cheap to rent or buy, and they help create the cinema experience audiences expect. Remember, some people in the audience may be better than home theater environment that you create.

ave hotel's technology can help, or a member of your staff team of AV can lend a hand. early screens to 4x6 feet work for the crowds, if up to 25 people, after that you'll have access to 6x8, or a much larger crowd, 12x16 'or more (much more than that and you do not read this section, anyway.)

Tip Two: The audio must be as BIG as video.

This is true even if your meeting is just a sales call between you and a prospect in an office toilet business. The sound is your secret weapon. The words must be understood, the music should be felt, and emotions must be driven - just like in the movies. Bring the portable speakers, or a larger meeting, rent a stereo sound system very good to make sure that your audience is enveloped in words and music you or your producer created.

Tip Three: lighting control.

Imagine a movie theater where they leave the lights on. Pretty weird, huh? Now think of your meeting. To maximize the impact of your media, you need to see the photo and your audience at ease to react to what is on screen. There is no place for a person to feel embarrassed laugh, applaud, or even cry. Only in the anonymity of the darkened room will really respond to your message and internalize its meaning. Shutter windows. Turn off fluorescent lights (they are a real killer meeting). Gradually, the room lights fade as video starts.

Tip Four: repeat.

Run the technical aspects of what we discussed. Know when the video is supposed to run when the PowerPoint is supposed to be played, and switching practice, dimming lights, adjusting the sound (both volume and EQ), and switching between inputs if necessary. You do not want to be stumbling blocks instead of talking, and you're backstage, you do not want the speaker you screaming to be asleep at the switch (you should be too bad if you were left hanging ago say nothing or make the guy is farting around with AV media in the back of the room.)

Tip Five: Use the effect of Letterman.

In short, the cooling of the room. David Letterman runs his studio at 60 degrees. It keeps him and his audience pointed. I'm not saying it is always cold, but if you are over 50 people, you have an audience that is oven off. Body Heat is real, and many bodies: a warm room. W.