22/09/09

Setting up projectors and screens.

We did a setup in Sheraton Tower for a conference. I am not sure what the event was about but what I know is the event was related to Intel. I helped to do projector setup such as setting up the screen and doing the adjustment for the projector to make sure the image is able to projected well on screen. Image alignment, colour correction and contrast comparison are the tests to make sure the setting is correct. We spent quite lot of times for doing image alignment because we need to ensure that 3 projectors can project the image to the screen nicely and can combine become a whole image. As you can imagine, the 3 screens were putting together side by side.

Someone was plugged in the RGBHV cable wrongly.

23/09/09

Effect processing unit.

Mackie SRM 350

That was nothing much happened on the day. No event need to be set up. So we had to stay at office to do some housekeeping works such as cleaning the flight case, do labelling for the flight cases for convenience purposes. I took the chance to know more about the equipment and did some research on it. I found out something pretty interesting, which is wireless DMX transmitter and receiver.

24/09/09

Same as yesterday. Nothing much happened on the day but we need to get prepared for the next 3 days because we have 2 major events are coming up and another is wedding ceremony set up. So I followed Xiao Boy(Eng Meng) to prepare the necessary lighting gears for the next 3 events. Now I am more get used to their working style although it is quite tiring most of the time but I think this will be a good chance for me to figure it out what suit me the best.

25/09/09

Doing frequency response test for EV speakers.

Today we need to do set up at St Regis for a wedding ceremony. The wedding is held by a tycoon's son. Well, that is not the point. Before the set up, the technicians from Electro Voice came to do quality check for their speakers. Our company purchased about 24 line array speakers. The test they did was exactly the same as what we did during audio technology lesson. Thanks to Dr Wang. The guys explained to me how important the test is to maintain the quality of the driver to make sure the frequency response and level are still within acceptable range.

This was the first time I have been assigned to do rigging and cabling for the lighting. In the end, I managed to get the job done and now I am more confidence to do it and I know what I am doing and what should I do. We did a small PA system set up at the entrance there. Although this doesn't sounds too hard for us but at least now they are more comfortable to assign work for us to do. It is a great start I guess.

Running and taping down the cabling properly is very important to ensure the cable looks neatly and easier for teardown later.

The lighting gears were ready.

26/09/09

Here comes to the last day of the week. We were doing a set up at Singapore Expo. The amount of equipment involved wasn't a lot but the scale of the event set up was quite a huge set up. Me and Nigel were helping Roy to build up the trusses for projector screen. Most of the senior colleagues were busying for the set up so we didn't disturb them too much and we were just doing some simple job such as clearing the venue, taping the cable and make sure the cable is running smoothly and nicely, arranging all the empty flight cases to make sure that all the cases are keeping neatly. After the set up, Ah Kim and Ah Hui and another guy were explaining to us how the whole video distribution system work with connecting all the input and output devices such as monitor, projector and video camera.

The lighting setup for the event. Part of the trusses was assembled by me and Nigel.

Line array (EV).