Encore proudly helped The Fullerton Hotel Sydney host 650 guests for the magnificent return of this year’s Tourism Accommodation Australia (NSW) Awards for Excellence. Our goal was to take the curved lines and colours of this year’s invite to inspire our event design, from the centrepieces through to Scenic Panel backdrop. Each table was brilliantly illuminated using 70x ShowPro R3 LED Wash Fixtures controlled via GrandMA and each screen on either side of the stage, and one at the rear measured a whopping 30ft x 10ft, making the audience feel immersed in the on-screen content. An incredible effort by everyone involved and truly wonderful occasion to be part of!
Encore in Melbourne were engaged by long time client of 20 years, Australian Hotels Association, to deliver their annual 2022 AHA (Vic) State Awards for Excellence for 1200 guests. As with every year, the AHA look to design an event design that has huge impact and delivers a memorable night for their guests.
The gala challenged Encore’s event designers and talented multimedia team to flex their creative muscles. They created a visual extravaganza with custom seamless animation spanning across 40m of custom projection surface. Utilising numerous circular digital panels in various sizes and formations which mimicked the Association’s circular branding and a stunning stage set with wide screens. Each of the 40 awards were celebrated with a different custom animations for each award which were projection mapped for each custom surface for a complete awards package showcasing the category title, finalist and the winner announcement videos.
The team also utilised an array of audio visual, staging and styling solutions for the pre-function area, afterparty and in room elements complemented by the iconic Palladium at Crown chandeliers.
The AHA Victoria were delighted with the result and commented,
“The AHA (Victoria) has worked with Encore on countless events over the last 20 years and have truly become our event partner. At every event we are blown away by their professionalism, dedication and creativity and this event was no exception. The room looked spectacular, and the animations were a great way to celebrate each venue individually. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to the team for all their consistent hard work over the years.”
Mike Barouche
General Manager – Partnerships, Administration & Operations
Australian Hotels Association (Victoria)
Encore had the privilege of delivering this year’s Essendon Football Club Hall of Fame Gala hosted at Victoria Pavilion for 450 special guests. It was one of the largest events Encore had the pleasure of delivering purely in-person since the start of the pandemic in 2020. As the in-house event production company at the venue, Encore provided a complete technical production solution.
A snapshot of what was included:
- 12 metre custom LED wall
- 16k Projection
- Extensive moving light package
- Content was created by Essendon Football Club under our recommendation for optimum impact across the LED.
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To learn more about the event and watch replay videos head to Essendon Football Club’s Website
Photography Credit: Lucas Dawson Photography
Encore had the huge honour of providing a complete event production solution for the 2022 National Folk Festival main Narragunnawali Stage. Over the course of the 4-day festival, Encore delivered all staging, lighting, audio vision and rigging components as well as looked after over 35 artists including national headline acts such as Kate Ceberano, Josh Pyke, Archie Roach and Yothu Yindi. The mammoth 3500 square meter tent hosted over 5000 people at times.
The stage needed to be large enough to hold a 200 person choir but also feel intimate enough for single performers. Our solution was a specially designed lighting rig to cater for the vast differences in the artist line ups. To ensure everyone had ‘the best seat in the house’ we utilised dual LED screens with a multi-cam shoot for imag and recording with the opening and closing ceremonies being live streamed to thousands around Australia and the world.
The who’s who of New Zealand real estate logged on to celebrate the profession’s best at the 2021 REINZ Awards for Excellence, delivered by Encore Event Technologies on 16 of September 2021. Hosted virtually for the first time, the awards night attracted more than 550 attendees from across New Zealand. The result was a seamless virtual experience, with all the glamour and excitement of a traditional in-person awards night — made possible by Encore’s experienced virtual events team.
Like many in-person events held this year, the Awards Night for REINZ forced to quickly pivot to Virtual Awards Night for REINZwhen New Zealand entered Alert Level 4 restrictions. With just three weeks until the event, it was all systems go for Encore’s production team to completely transform the format and take the event online. The short timeframe, compounded by this being the client’s first virtual event of this magnitude and the nature of the event – an online awards night that needed to match the experience of an in-person event – made for the perfect storm and needed expert production management to execute.
With the company’s CEO located in Hamilton – a level 2 restricted location – it became the logical place to broadcast the event from. With Encore’s production team forced to work from home under Auckland’s restrictions, they coordinated with local suppliers to construct a professional virtual studio that they could operate remotely.
Using Encore’s cutting-edge Immersive xR Stage combined with a green screen, the team were transported the event’s MCs to a stage with a picturesque backdrop of New Zealand’s iconic mountain range, The Remarkables. Award winners, sponsors and special presenters were remotely linked into the main event broadcast using Zoom.
The event was a resounding success, with the client and attendees commenting on their enjoyable experience.
“I never thought I could enjoy a virtual event so much, I too sat at home with a glass of bubbles cheering on the winners and absolutely loved how the camera jumped into their world for the win.”
Kate Smith – Operations Manager, Skills Consulting Group.
The long-standing client was grateful with the level of dedication the Encore team showed to ensuring Virtual Awards Night for REINZ was delivered seamlessly,
“The team at Encore were absolutely amazing to work with! To pull off a full virtual event in three weeks is impressive. Even when the live set moved cities and Covid Alert Levels! The Encore team provided guidance and innovative ideas to make this an exciting event for all those attending. I can’t wait to work with the team again in the future,” said Holly Adams, Events & Sponsorship Executive at REINZ.
Encore had the pleasure of hosting the 67th annual Victoria Training Awards 2021. Due to COVID restrictions prohibiting in-person events, the awards night were held completely virtual from the Encore Studio within Victoria Pavilion at Melbourne Showgrounds. The Victorian Training Awards recognise and honour the outstanding achievements of individuals and organisations in the Victorian TAFE and training sector. The prestigious Victorian Training Awards bring together apprentices, trainees, students, teachers, training providers, employers, and industry representatives, sharing in a high-quality training system that meets the needs of all Victorians.
Encore were asked to design a solution where they could stream from a studio for their hosts, and also have somewhere for all viewers to watch the live stream whilst engaging with each other on a virtual platform. Our Melbourne Studio fitted the brief perfectly as well as utilizing our interactive event platform – Chime Live.
The Melbourne Production department started with a blank room. Working from our 2020 Studio design and looking at new technology trends, the team came up with a space that could rival the TV networks. An abundance of Stage and Effect lighting fixtures compliments the giant LED screen which is at the centre of the Studio. Presenters were supported by a range of fold back monitors and screens, while the event is produced on Encore’s high end audio, lighting and vision systems. Encore’s multimedia department also assist in the creation of motion animations and keynote presentations.
Encore rocketed into action with only four weeks to turnaround a completely virtual event for 10, 000 attendees registered for the 43rd Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly.
The event organiser, ICMS Australasia, was tasked with delivering the annual event in Sydney which was originally planned to be a week-long and Sydney’s largest conference to date.
Planning for the conference started in January 2019 and was going to be hosted across iconic Sydney venues including the ICC and Luna Park. The who’s who of the space industry was going to be in attendance from scientists and researchers (including NASA) to spaceship manufacturers and general space enthusiasts alike.
Then COVID hit.
After two postponements, they decided to instead opt for a completely virtual conference – a first for this event.
Encore’s complete virtual and hybrid event production offering made them the preferred choice to deliver the content for opening ceremony and awards night to the global audience. It needed to be impactful, entertaining and live up to standards of previous events held in the traditional in-person format. Adding to this requirement was also the need to create a seamless presentation, a simple request made challenging with the short lead time and presenters located around the world and compounded by COVID restrictions.
With Encore having just released their game-changing virtual stage, Immersive XR Stage, the powerful technology became the perfect solution.
Important elements of the Opening Ceremony was delivering a series of pre-corded interviews with the President COSPAR, Dr Lennard Fisk. As a space event it made perfect sense to make this the theme. Encore’s production team designed the virtual stage to make it appear as though Dr Fisk, was presenting from on-board a spaceship, zooming around space as he visited new locations for the interviews. A dream of Dr Fisk’s was to visit the Sun, so Encore took him there for one of his interviews.
This was all made possible using the sophisticated Immersive XR Stage technology.
To deliver the awards content, Encore’s production team created 17 production studios around the world to capture 19 recordings from the award winners and MC, from Sweden and Russia right across to Japan and New Zealand.
Encore was able to integrate with the local studio’s systems to allow our production teams to capture and edit the green screen footage all the way from Sydney. Each award winner’s interviews was set against stock footage of their home towns to make it appear as though they were presenting from there.
The event was a huge success for Encore’s production team, and a perfect example of the benefits of working with a company that can deliver all components. The long-standing relationship between Encore and ICMS Australasia gave the team the confidence and peace of mind Encore will deliver a professional experience.
Encore delivered an innovative, virtual solution to enable the GO Foundation’s Big Catch Up to continue despite COVID restrictions. The client wanted a live event feel, despite the fact that this was the first time the event had been delivered virtually. Encore delivered on this requirement by branding the Chime Live platform completely with GO Foundation colours. In the venue, the team built three towers of LED as the stage backdrop to create a branded, stylish look for the online audience that also incorporated GO Foundation design elements.
Encore delivered the University of Sydney’s first ever hybrid celebration for the class of 2020’s 18,000 graduands/graduates. It celebrated the achievements of every student graduating that year and was delivered to an impressive 6,000 online guests from 90 countries around the world.
THE PROBLEM
With live events prohibited under COVID 19 restrictions at the time, the graduations team at the University of Sydney approached Encore to deliver the celebration event in a hybrid format.
The client had serious concerns about how the event would look and that the graduating class would get a professional, engaging experience to celebrate their success. In addition, there were concerns about broadcasting to multiple countries concurrently, in particular to China as the event was to be delivered concurrently worldwide.
THE SOLUTION
Encore presented the perfect solution, the intuitive Chime Live platform which features all aspects you would expect from an in-person event, plus live engagement for everyone to be involved via the platform’s ability to integrate Instagram, Facebook and Twitter messages using the hashtag #USydClassof2020.
THE RESULT
The event was streamed live from the Great Hall at the University of Sydney featuring speeches and entertainment for the thousands of online viewers. It was a virtual hit with large numbers of students sharing photos from homes wearing their gowns and celebrating with loved ones.
Our client Cristina Dietmann, Events Manager, University of Sydney was delighted with the result commenting,
“We were all very concerned about changing the event to virtual. Graduations have been delivered in a similar way at the University for 140 years. Graduation is such a special time for our students and we didn’t want to delay it.”
“The Encore team were terrific! They were so knowledgeable about the technology and made me feel totally at ease. The event went without a hitch and we were delighted. Feedback from both Academics and attendees was really positive.”
“Whilst we look forward to being able to do live, in-person graduations in the future, this was a great way to ensure our students could celebrate and not have to wait even longer.”