Events and community · Troon, South Ayrshire · June 2019
Active Schools Awards, Troon: big screen, red carpet and sound for South Ayrshire’s young athletes
South Ayrshire Council’s Active Schools team asked Lairds to run the technology for their awards evening at Troon Concert Hall, for the second year running. Rear projection, video distribution, digital signage, zoned audio, a DJ and a red carpet, so the children arrived like the stars of the night.
Client
South Ayrshire Council, Active Schools
Venue
Troon Concert Hall, South Ayrshire
Scope
Projection, video distribution, signage, zoned audio, PA, lighting
Date
June 2019, second year
The brief
The Active Schools Awards recognise school pupils across South Ayrshire for a year of sport and effort. The council wanted the evening to feel like an occasion for the children rather than a ceremony for adults, and after the first year they asked us back to make it bigger.
What we did
We fitted Troon Concert Hall with a rear-projection screen and HD projector so that nothing stood between the audience and the stage, video distribution to the displays around the hall, and digital signage for the running order. The entrance had its own independently controlled audio zone, so that the children walked the red carpet to a playlist that started with Chariots of Fire and went up from there. In the hall, a PA with mixing desk, a DJ and lighting carried the rest of the evening, and we stayed on the desk throughout so that the council’s staff could concentrate on the awards.
The result
A hall full of children who felt like celebrities for an evening, which, as the awards say, they had earned. Community work like this is part of how Lairds operates: the same engineers and the same equipment that go into commercial installations, lent to the things that matter locally.
The day
What we provided
The full technical production for the evening, from the rear-projection screen to the playlist at the door, with Lairds engineers on the desk from set-up to the last award.
What went in
- Rear-projection screen and HD projector
- Video distribution to displays around the hall
- Digital signage
- Independently controlled audio zone at the entrance
- PA system with mixing desk, DJ and lighting
- Red carpet
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