Large Teen Event

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Johnny Dee

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May 6, 2007
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Greenwich, CT
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Here's a couple of pix from a large teen event we did Friday night (between 700 and 800 kids I believe). My job at this event was to keep the video screens busy with music videos, ambients, custom graphics, live video camera, chromakeying effects, and text live. We had 400 messages alone come in on Text Live.

This job was an example of primo networking. There were 4 companies represented here, each working together. This job was not booked by us, but by one of the companies we network with.

Here's an example of some of the equipment:
4 - EAW Subs
4 - EAW Mains
Intelligent Lightshow consisting of Martin Pro400's, and Martin 250 Moving Heads.
Smoke Machine
1 - 10' Rear Projection Screen and Projector
2 - Plasma Screens
Text Live

We also supplied a large towed Generator and distro box. We ending up using 10 separate circuits for power.

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Do you use the fog machine much?
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This is the only place we can use a "Fog" machine as it is a ice skating rink (with a roof but open sides) so there is no problem with smoke detectors. We sometimes get to use our hazer, but even that is not too often.

This is a shot of the kids using Text Live. It was real popular that night. The template we designed for it includes "live video camera" in PIP in the upper left corner of the screen.

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Johnny great as usual.... I do miss the big school dances....

do you have problems with kids texting naughty stuff? Do you have an edit feature or something?
 
do you have problems with kids texting naughty stuff? Do you have an edit feature or something?
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Each message they send comes to my laptop and I manually send it up to the screen after reading it. There is also a built in filter which filters out any messages with the obvious bad words. You can also add to this list. In return the program sends an automatic message to the sender telling them not to send bad messages.

The age group of the kids or guests depends on what I will let go to screen. Also you have to be aware of gang stuff that could go to the screen. If I'm at all in doubt, I delete the message. Out of 400 messages that night I believe I filtered out 65 to 70.
 
We find we have to travel a large geographical area to get the big jobs. Many times we will travel 2-3 hours one way to do a big gig. The average school dance won't pay the big bucks. Usually it's a homecoming, sno-ball, prom or special school function that will pay the big bucks.

We have a great local Teen Center account that is privately funded by Diana Ross, Tommy Hilfiger, Kathy Lee and Frank Gifford, Steve Young etc. and we do a couple of large teen functions there each month.

Also, we provide lighting and video diplays for other DJ's at school functions which increases the amount of work for us.

All of our school/teen work comes in through our website as this is where they now shop for their entertainment.
 
Johnny! I am based in Staten Island but 90% of my work is in NJ. I offer a small video lighting package. If I decided to book events that call for double plasmas and big lighting, can I call upon you guys for my area. I have 2 weddings in December that would like a nice size show.
 
Johnny! I am based in Staten Island but 90% of my work is in NJ. I offer a small video lighting package. If I decided to book events that call for double plasmas and big lighting, can I call upon you guys for my area. I have 2 weddings in December that would like a nice size show.
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Sure...no problem. Believe it or not a big part of our work is in NJ also.

Take a look at our website and you can get an idea of what we can provide. Contact me and we can discuss it further. It would be great to work with you.
 
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