The Frontiers of Flight Museum sits on the edge of Dallas Love Field, and its main hall is a hangar: a concrete floor, glass along one wall, a steel roof and aircraft hanging overhead. A software company booked the hall for a product launch keynote, with a stage at one end and rows of seating in front of it. The job was a projected screen every seat could read and microphones every seat could hear, in a room full of daylight.
A projection screen that holds up in a daylit hangar
A projector at the back of this hall would be competing with the windows and the roof lights, and the image would wash out. We brought our ultra short throw projector and ambient light rejecting screen instead. The projector sat on the stage at the base of the screen, a few inches from it. The screen surface takes the light coming up from the projector and turns away the light coming down from the roof and in through the glass, so the slides kept their color and contrast with the hall lit the way it always is.
We wrote more about ambient light rejecting projector screens and the rooms they suit, if you are weighing one for a bright venue.
A presenter who can stand right in front of the screen
This is the part people notice. When a projector throws from the back of a room, anyone who steps in front of the screen puts a shadow across the slides and looks straight into the beam. With the projector at the base of the screen, the beam runs up the face of the screen from a few inches away. The presenter walked the stage, stood directly in front of his slides and pointed at them, and the image stayed whole behind him while his eyes stayed clear of the light.
Four wireless microphones and the De-Feedback system
Sound came from a pair of speakers on tripods beside the stage, aimed at the seating. For the presenters we ran three lapel wireless microphones and a handheld, all on our AI-powered De-Feedback system.
A hangar is a hard room. Concrete, glass and steel send sound straight back toward a microphone, and a lapel on a presenter who moves around the stage is the microphone that tends to ring. De-Feedback listens for the frequencies starting to build and pulls them down before the room hears them, so each presenter stayed clear and even across the hall.
Event AV inside a museum full of aircraft
The hall stays a working museum around an event, with aircraft overhead, a space capsule beside the stage and display cases along the walls. Our crew delivered the screen, projector, speakers and microphones, set them up and tested them before doors, and picked everything up at the end. The Frontiers of Flight Museum is one of the venues we’ve worked, and the same bright-room setup goes into lobbies, ballrooms with the lights up and glass-walled conference rooms across our corporate events.
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