Projection Mapping on Morpheus

Corporate Events have been involved in creating 3D projection mapping now for some time. Usually when you think of video projection mapping the first thing that probably comes to mind is the mapping of buildings. However, using video mapping as a stage prop or a demonstration aid really adds dramatic effect to a presentation, and Morpheus the six foot mannequin illustrates this beautifully. For more information about Morpheus or 3D projection mapping and its possibilities, visit http://www.corporate-events.co.uk 

                   

Corporate Events to Run London

With Boris Johnson gearing up to make a challenge for Prime Minister (perhaps) and Eddie Izzard in the running for Mayor of London, we think it’s high time that Corporate Events stood up to be counted.

With that in mind, Corporate Events Managing Director Andrew Ashley will be running in the Virgin London Marathon on April 21st. A keen runner and member of the Aldbourne Running Club, this will be Andy’s first London marathon.

Andy comments: “As Corporate Events work in London all the time, producing great events I’m always in and out of here by car, on the train or in a cab, so pounding the streets and running past all the great venues we work in will be a real change and challenge.”

The London Marathon course is flat and fast. It starts in Blackheath, heads east through Charlton and Woolwich for three miles, turns west and passes the Cutty Sark in Greenwich after six to seven miles. It crosses the River Thames at Tower Bridge and then loops around the east end of London, past Canary Wharf in Docklands, before heading west again along the Highway and the Embankment to Parliament Square, Birdcage Walk and the final corner in front of Buckingham Palace.

The first London Marathon, held on 29 March 1981, finished on Constitution Hill between Green Park and Buckingham Palace. From 1982 until 1993 the race finished on Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament in the background. But in 1994 repair work to the bridge meant the finish line was moved to The Mall where it has been ever since.

Andy concludes: “I’m sure that it will be a great experience and I’m really pleased to have the opportunity to run in this amazing event. I’ve got my eye on a time and we’ll see how I get on - training is going well.”

More Photo's from The Publican Awards 2013

Here are more photos of the highly successful barrels staging that was bespoke built for The Publican Awards 2013.

The two massive beer barrel projections to the stage had projection mapping displayed on them so that the barrels could be animated and change. The photos show examples of the projection mapping changes, but don't show you how phenomenal they really were on the night. Trust me they were amazing!

It just goes to show that if you are planning an experiential event, Corporate Events can make your off the wall ideas become a reality with our excellent creative events crew and our in-house audio visual production experts.

Corporate Events Keep Cool With ACR

Before an audience of nearly 400 guests from across the air conditioning and refrigeration industry last night, the winners of this year’s ACR News Awards were announced. The big winners of the night were WR Refrigeration and Toshiba Air Conditioning.

Corporate Events were on hand to ensure an excellent standard of set and stage design a well as high production standards.

Corporate Events Account Director Steve Jebbett comments: “Working at The Grange Tower Bridge is always interesting. Our production design for The ACR awards production made sure we considered the brand “pull through” in terms of look and feel - ensuring that guests could see continuity in the set, stage and on screen content of our audio visual production.”

Steve continues: “Another new feature that Corporate Events has introduced to the event production for this year’s awards was the introduction of bespoke architectural feature lit lettering, spelling out “Awards” - it’s a very simple but very effective way to add to the overall production values of an award production.”

Corporate Events Managing Director adds: “The ACR Awards is a great event production. The production is based around a blended widescreen delivery using our Spyder system, which gives an amazing viewing experience. This is augmented and enhanced by the outstanding and dynamic content that our in-house creative team produce.”

Guests at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in London were treated to an evening of entertainment and humour from presenter Rob Beckett. Rob Beckett arrived on the comedy scene in 2009, winning 4 competitions in his first year.

In 2010, Rob won The Amused Moose Laugh Off at the Edinburgh Festival, which earned him an invite to perform at comedy festivals in Australia. At this festival in Adelaide, Rob was nominated for the best newcomer award.

Rob's TV credits include Fresh Meat, Richard Bacon's Beer and Pizza Club and Geordie Shore's Mint Bits.

Corporate Events Roll Out the Barrel at The Publican Awards

More than 1,100 people attended the glittering award ceremony, the biggest event in the pub industry calendar, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane and hosted by comedian and TV star Rob Brydon.

The Publican Awards, in association with Sky, recognise the achievements of top pub companies across 18 categories.

Corporate Events designed and produced a stunning and technically innovative set and stage for the iconic London event venue that included a massive 40 feet wide blended video screen, twin LED video wall panels and two massive beer barrel shapes that formed the canvas for some exciting and innovative projection mapping.

Corporate Events technical production manager Adrian Tolson comments “We have produced the Publican Awards previously and wanted to raise the bar this year, so looked at what we could do that would resonate with the event brand and audience. Creating massive, 15 feet tall beer barrels that became a projection canvas was an interesting challenge.”

Account Manager Katie Lewis continues the theme: “When we started to look at projection mapping onto the barrels and then getting our in-house creative team to weave these into the narrative for the evening, we were very excited about how we were going to raise the production levels again this year.”

Taking projection mapping into the awards production arena is just one of the areas in which Corporate Events continue to innovate. Production manager Adrian Tolson concludes: “To add a bit more to the lighting effects, we installed 16 Chauvet Legend lighting heads on the show. These are the lights we’ve all seen on TV shows like Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor, and they add a huge impact to the overall lighting pallet on the night.”

The Publican's Morning Advertiser's group editor Rob Willock said: "The Publican Awards judging is an extensive and rigorous process which really puts businesses under scrutiny. In these challenging trading times it is fantastic to see our award winners continuing to grow their businesses and bring innovations to their customers.

"All our winners are driving their businesses forward with energy and passion. Congratulations to them all."

Corporate Events Awarded Faversham House Portfolio

After an intensive search and selection process, thriving, progressive, independent media business Faversham House has appointed Swindon based Corporate Events to provide audio visual production for their entire 2013 portfolio of industry leading award recognition events.

Faversham House Head of Events Mark Baker comments, "We looked at our portfolio over 2012 and saw that we had a number of suppliers working across our events, and we had a real desire to consolidate this process and drive better value for our sponsors, while improving the guest experience at Faversham House events. We set a challenging pitch process and invited in a number of event production companies to pitch to us.

Mark continues “Corporate Events had worked with Faversham house on some of our award events in 2012 and embraced the whole pitch process, clearly demonstrating an understanding of our ambition for continued growth and success of Faversham Houses' industry leading award event portfolio. They came to us with strong concept ideas and a clear desire to deliver great events for us – so we're really pleased to have selected them to run our entire business to business awards portfolio this year.”

Corporate Events MD Andy Ashley states: "We're delighted to continue our partnership with Faversham House. We took great pride in working with them and producing some very polished and professional award dinners in 2012, which gave us the great platform to pitch and - I'm pleased to say - win the full portfolio of awards events for 2013, and as ever, we're looking forward to raising production standards further this year!”

Corporate Events Account Director Steve Jebbett concludes "With a portfolio of 7 massive, industry leading award dinners to produce throughout 2013, it's really exciting to be working with such a successful and thriving media business as Faversham House. The portfolio covers some stunning venues and includes the iconic Grosvenor House in Park Lane, and we've got some amazing ideas to bring to the table throughout the year!”

Corporate Events is a privately owned communications and events production company, employing 38 staff, and owning in excess of £2million in the most up to date audio visual and stage equipment. They have built a reputation in the industry for outstanding creativity and customer service.

Corporate Events take pride in their work and this is reflected in the client retention and growth levels that the business enjoys.

All the world's a stage...

Some of the most famous faces in British entertainment grace the stage at some recent Corporate Events productions. From Grosvenor House through to Hilton Park Lane and beyond, Corporate Events produce outstanding events everywhere... Want to know about Corporate Events? Visit the website http://www.corporate-events.co.uk

Corporate Events Produce a Creative Event for ISPY Conference and Awards Dinner

Corporate Events have just produced another outstanding creative event production, this time in The Brighton Hilton Metropole.

With up to 50 airlines, 100 cabin crew and 30 of the leading Inflight Retail Suppliers to ISPY, the excitement and anticipation for this year's ISPY conference and awards dinner was at an all time high. The registration figures lead us to believe that ISPY2013 is going to beat all previous attendance records.

ISPY is like no other conference, trade show, training, or staff recognition event, because it is all of these rolled into one. They have great training sessions, conferences and workshops and product showcases for all delegates throughout the week and everyone joins in the celebration of excellence within this industry at the Friday night Gala Awards Ceremony.

Corporate Events work with the ISPY management team to design, produce and deliver a seamless conference and gala dinner production that reflects and enhances the communication strategy behind the event.

There is a lot of talk about the benefits of Airlines sending a 'delegation' (consisting of best selling crew, performance management and buyers) to ISPY. The key benefit being the opportunity to come together & meet and interact with the Suppliers. Corporate Events whole heartedly believe that when all stakeholders work together it will make a difference to development of the airline's sales culture.

That is why the ISPY event is unique.

Corporate Events client account manager Katie Lewis comments "Working on the ISPY event is a unique challenge and one we readily embrace. The mix of sales conference, education seminars and then a massive and opulent gala dinner production create a real sense of community around the delegates."

Technical Production Manager Adrian Tolson adds "It's nice to be working in Brighton again - and producing something at this scale is always interesting. Our creative content team has - once again - produced some real eye popping graphics."

The final word goes to Corporate Events Managing Director Andy Ashely, who concludes "It's great to see Park Lane awards production standards can be ported to anywhere in the world, and I think this year's ISPY production looked fantastic."

David x 2 In Creative Role

Corporate Events have added another David to their growing creative studio headcount.

Joining Dave Haslop's creative team at Corporate Events is David Karn, a seasoned professional presentation designer.

With over 20 years in the graphic design industry, David has creative experience of many aspects of the business including design for print, exhibition graphics, corporate identity and conference support.
Corporate Events Commercial Director Tim Christian comments: "There is a huge gulf between someone who can pick up PowerPoint and edit a slide, to a real creative slide designer, both in terms of technical competence and creative ability.

Conferences and award dinners are a method of communication, and in these difficult commercial times, it is vital that our clients messaging and communication stand out from all the other noise and distractions around them. It is important that this message isn't compromised and left in the hands of people not skilled in the discipline.

That's why Corporate Events has taken the bold investment move of recruiting the best in their field."

Creative Director at Corporate Events David Haslop adds: "It's all too easy to pick up a laptop and call yourself a PowerPoint designer, but without training and education in the core disciplines of color, typeography and composition, the output tends to be a bit flat."

"We've known David for a while and his ability to work closely with clients on-site during an event production has given him a huge advantage in better understanding their needs."

Tim Christian concludes: "When you consider some of our clients above the line agency relationships and marketing strategies, it's vital that Corporate Events can offer a creative package that works to that level of skill and understanding. We can provide a real pull through of message and communication styles that compliments and enhances the core call to action within the overall creative, making a Corporate Events production more effective. Only by investing in our creative team can we ensure that content we create will deliver the clients message in an event environment."

The Story Behind The Ever-Expanding Corporate Events Creative Department

In these challenging and gloomy economic times, it's refreshing to hear of a continued success story that means more employment and more growth, and that's just what's happening at Swindon based Corporate Events.

After many years as a pure Audio Visual production company, in 2008 Corporate Events branched out into the design and creative world, producing slide content, animations and video for client conferences.

Forward wind that story to 2013 and it's an amazingly different picture, as Corporate Events Managing Director Andrew Ashley explains: "As a business, we need to provide real differentiation within our proposition to clients. Gone are the days when more audio visual equipment gave us the edge. While that is still important to clients and part of our value proposition, what's increasingly more important to our clients is the creativity we can bring to their communication challenges."

Commercial Director Tim Christian continues the thread: "It's true to say that our business model has moved on it's axis over the last few years. Historically, the technical production was our lead, now our creativity and communication skills are becoming more and more in demand, with some clients using our services for a full, end to end communications program.

Conferences and award dinners are a method of communication, and in these difficult commercial times, it is vital that our clients messaging and communication stand out from all the other noise and distractions around them.

That's why Corporate Events has taken the bold investment move of recruiting the best in their field."
It's all too easy to pick up a laptop and call yourself a PowerPoint designer, but without training and education in the core disciplines of colour  typography and composition, the output might not be as good as expected.

Add to that the complexities of motion graphics and video production and pretty soon the need for a bespoke creative department becomes clear.

Tim Christian concludes: "When you consider some of our clients above the line agency relationships and marketing, it's vital that Corporate Events can offer a creative package that works to that level of skill and understanding, that we can provide a real pull through of message and communication styles that compliments and enhances the core call to action within the overall creative. Only by investing in our creative team can we ensure that content we create will deliver the clients message in an event environment."

All That Glitters...

December saw Corporate Events back in London's Grosvenor House on Park Lane for The 2012 IGD Glitter Ball.

Corporate Events Account Director Steve Jebbett comments "Grosvenor House is one of those iconic venues that everybody recognizes - its the venue of choice for gala dinners and balls, so every time Corporate Events provide event production solutions here, it's always an interesting and exciting production."

He continues "The 2012 IGD Glitter Ball was certainly a very involved an complex production, just in terms of numbers of acts and entertainment to manage throughout the course of the event, as well as the run of the mill challenges we always face."

Corporate Events Creative Director David Haslop adds "For the 2012 IGD Glitter Ball at Grosvenor House, the team created a whole look for the event, so everything from theme, through to look and feel of all of the print, advertising and media collateral used assets from the Corporate Events creative input, which is how we are adding real value to our clients event spend - it's no longer enough to be able to provide excellent audio visual production - our clients look at us for a full creative service as well, and I'm pleased to say that with the team we've built up, we deliver!"

As well as the audio visual production for the gala dinner, corporate events also managed the stage acts, who included TV's George Lamb, X-Factor and I'm a Celebrity... star Stacey Soloman.

Also on the bill was David Armand - comedian, actor and writer who has performed on stage, film, radio and most notably, television.

He is well known for his mime style interpretive dance of Natalie Imbruglia's Torn. He performed his famous dance on stage live with Natalie Imbruglia at the 2006 Secret Policeman's Ball for Amnesty International. The performance started with Armand dancing with Imbruglia singing live vocals backstage, then on-stage, and concluded with Imbruglia performing Armand's dance moves alongside him.

Live Music was provided by the Blues Brothers International band, who performed an energetic set of classic numbers. Steve Jebbett concludes "It was a busy night with over one thousand guests from the great and the good of the grocery industry. In terms of stage management and making sure everything ran to time, but the way Corporate Events plan this kind of event makes certain that when we get to the venue, our delivery is robust and the service we give to the client is second to none."

Corporate Events - Winners at The ATCO PSA World Series Finals

While the rest of us were enjoying a well earned Christmas break, there was no such luck for the technical crew at Corporate Events in 2012.

On December 27th - the day after Boxing Day - The Corporate Events crew descended onto Queens Club in London, England to start the build up for the 2013 ATCO PSA World Series Finals.

The pinnacle of the squash calendar returned to the Queen's Club from 2nd - 6th January 2013 for the fourth consecutive year and once again, Corporate Events were on hand to ensure that the sound, lighting and video relay was perfect.

Played on the spectacular 'Z-Court', which has been designed to ensure uninterrupted 360 degree views of the high-octane action through use of the latest technology in glass construction, the challenge for Corporate Events was to create an exciting and dynamic lighting and audio support service to the main event. We designed, created and installed a production solution that allowed for the players to be introduced to the crowd in a manner befitting a heavyweight boxing fight, with high energy music and lights setting the scene for the battle ahead, adding to a charged atmosphere generated by an attentive audience and live TV crews.

Eight of the greatest male and female players in the squash World went head to head to decide who would be crowned champions after five days of action. The squash elite were split into two pools of four with all male eight players competing on each of the first three days of the tournament. Currently those heading the PSA World Series and almost certain to qualify for Queen's include current World No. 1 James Willstrop.

Corporate Events technical production manager Adam Harris comments "While working over Christmas is unfortunate, Queens Club is a globally recognized destination venue, so making a production work here, under the gaze of a global TV audience adds a degree of challenge."

Managing Director Andrew Ashley concludes: "It's that challenge we like at Corporate Events - how we design and create unique experiences for our clients keeps our proposition fresh and exciting every time, and to be back at Queens again in 2013 is a great testimonial to the service levels our technical crew provide".

LED Set Lighting - Corporate Events Have It Taped!

No strangers to innovation, Swindon based Corporate Events have once again introduced a new and innovative feature to their formidable creative event production solutions portfolio.

Using a mix of old and new technologies in a bespoke application, Corporate Events has created a unique conference production set and stage feature that creates a striking and memorable visual impact on the delegates, thus enhancing the communication and retention of messaging.

Using Electro Voltaic (EV) tape, Corporate Events are able to create very strong architectural edge lighting features on stage and sets, enhancing the shape and form of a structure in a simple yet elegant fashion.

Corporate Events Commercial Director Tim Christian comments: "Electro Voltaic tape is something used by architects and lighting designers as well as in theatre and film. To bring it into the conference production and audio visual marketplace is an exciting departure, but we think the material can add a level of class and distinction to very basic audio visual productions, creating a real wow factor at a reasonable price point."

The material is wafer thin and comes in a range of colors and widths, making it an interesting tool for Corporate Events set designer Robert Grey to consider when creating concepts.

Rob adds: "All our clients are looking for something a bit different - something that adds class and production values to their show, but at the same time they are looking to save money. Developments and innovations by Corporate Events like Electro Voltaic tape allow me to be more creative and offer something that's not been seen before without going crazy with the budgets."

Managing Director Andrew Ashley concludes: "Everyone is looking for an edge in 2013. At Corporate Events, we've developed a way to light up that edge in client brand colors."

Steve Jebbett - Corporate Events New Starter

The latest addition to the steadily growing Corporate Events team is Oxfordshire based Steve Jebbett.

Joining as Account Director, Steve brings many years of industry experience with him to Corporate Events. Having worked agency and client side in the role of Event Manager, Steve is only too aware of the pressures on clients in the build up to and during events.

Steve comments: “In my time at British Airways and Reed Elsiver, I've experienced some hair raising moments that - at the time - seemed like the end of the world, but they all get filed away to learn from in the future and it has been an amazing learning experience.”

Corporate Events HR Director Jed Bowers comments: “When we were recruiting for the role Steve is now in, we wanted to ensure we had a candidate that could add value to an already strong and impressive proposition, so the task was a tough one from the outset. What impressed us about Steve is that he’s worked events from both sides of the fence - client side and event audio visual production side, which gives him a unique insight and empathy into the issues faced by our clients.

This gives Steve a real strength when communicating both to his clients and his internal team. Having “been there, done that” is a real advantage in his position and already we are seeing that clients enjoy Steve’s hands on approach.”

Managing Director Andrew Ashley adds: “While people may look at an event and only see the bright lights and feel the exciting experience on the day, it takes weeks and months of meticulous planning to deliver outstanding events time after time. Steve has the process and planning skills that are invaluable to anyone in this role - he’s a real find for Corporate Events.”

But the last word goes to Steve Jebbett: “ I'm thrilled to be at Corporate Events. They are a business that really values the individual, understands the meaning of teamwork and is truly people focused. I've delivered conference productions and gala dinners before, but Corporate Events are just that little bit better. They have ambitious plans and an amazing track record and I’m pleased to be able to be part of their developing story.”

Swindon Corporate Events Showcase Their Specialised Events Equipment

Swindon based Corporate Events held a technical showcase at their Swindon HQ to demonstrate their range of state of the art audio and visual effects that are now available to companies wishing to keep abreast of the developments in presentation technology. The show included special effects for conferences, product launches and exhibitions.

Among the technologies shown off were the new glassless 3D LED screens, Christie's digital tiles and the eye popping project mapping display which is a permanent installation in the main gallery at Corporate Events.

Conference tools such as the linked multiple iPad system from Event Pad; allowing up to 1,500 delegates to follow a presentation on supplied pre-programmed iPads, showed how far computing has moved on. So did the entertaining Seahorse interactive displays which included customisable virtual scratch cards, perfect for attracting visitors to an exhibition stand.

The largest display were the programmable hanging screens; CES 12mm pixel lightweight LED panels at 500 x 1000mm each. The panels were tiled to create four drops 4m high x 1m wide. Able to show a range of intense designs and moving patterns, the panels are regulars on TV shows such as X Factor and add real glamour to any event.

The event attracted a steady flow of existing and potential clients which included representatives from Nationwide, Honda, Excalibur and Intel.

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