The Awards are the brain child of the Cornwall Development Company. We received a brief for the Awards. So with the venue set at St Mellion Golf Course we designed a set backdrop that would impress and also provide the result we wanted.

A twin screen stage set was built with 2 x 50” plasmas fitted into the panels portrait style for displaying sponsors names and logos, maintaining a clean slick look we also implemented hollow set panels which allowed us to hide part of the PA system behind keeping the fresh look. we added an additional wow factor with our own custom designed light columns which house a colour changing led light source.

For Video and Data Display We installed 4 x Compact LCD projectors with live camera, presentation content and Video playback. Lighting was 12 x SGM moving head lights with a mixture of spots and washes, 16 x LED Tricolour lamps for set and room Lighting, Stage and stage generics, with the restricted ceiling height of the suite we fitted the lighting up into the ceiling void or on discrete plinths so no floor space was used in additional 2 x flown side screens were used to overcome difficult sight lines , the sound was a mixture of our standard HK Audio cabinets situated around in the set and around the perimeter of the suite in addition we flew 4 x compact Martin Audio units this insured that everyone had clear intelligible sound from the front row right to the back corner.

We built a pair of custom event racks housing all the sound and video control so a minimal production area was needed to boot.

We were able to work closely with the venue giving them as much time to meet there requirements, from setting the tables early so that the client was able to turn up midday and decorate accordingly, too maximum floor space this gave serving staff space to safely serve around all the guests.

The overall result was fantastic, the event went without a hitch all the crew especially enjoyed guest speaker – pop guru Pete Waterman giving us his life story speech having a 30 minute window to do this Pete over ran by 20 minutes and he only got to his early 30’s, so glad he didn’t have all night!.

The host for the awards was the brilliant “Daphne Skinnard” from the BBC’s radio Cornwall. Due to the success of the event more people are asking to attend next year’s event so we are working with the CDC on a different approach to the awards, this will allow more lucky people the chance to be there on the night.