An A-list team was formed to play around one night and see what we could come up with. The always amazing Marie Labbancz offered to capture the magic. Beka and Kimberly organized everything and Kathy from Table Art provided the gorgeous flowers. Claudia Seyler worked her magic on the models hair and makeup.

The shoot was divided between day and night time shots. The day locations are being submitted to national publications and will be shown in the future, but I did want to show you a quick glimpse of some of the night shots. The team used the mausoleum on the property as inspiration for a Twilight / True Blood look. A little fog and some dramatic lighting really made the look!

This wall,which is over 100 years old and located in the grapery, is over 25 feet tall. The pictures capture how some simple lighting can bring out the texture and architecture of a space. A little variation in color can make an image look vastly different.

Eventions provided a thunderous sound system for the show, which featured a live DJ spinning the music for the show that rivals Fashion Week in New York City. Large projection screens were installed for live images as well as slides showing the designer’s collection information. Since this is a show to showcase the work of the fashion students, the models are professional runway models from Philadelphia and New York. The fashions shown are the culmination of the student’s 4 years of study at the college. The invitation only show is attended by local and national press as well as representatives from most of the major fashion labels.

A lighting design consisting of runway lighting and intelligent lighting allowed our designers to change the look of the tent and runway for each collection.

Disclaimer - For the technically inclined people looking at this, the video screens were correctly color balanced, it is my amateur photography skills that are showing wrong colors - Brian

About two weeks before the event, The director of Special Events for Mural Arts called the office and said “I have this crazy idea. Can we hang one of our real murals up for the Wall Ball.” When we got down to the specifics of it, it was a monstrous project. The mural, currently in 30 different panels, was installed in the Galleria Mall in Philadelphia. The overall size of the mural was 30 foot tall by 120 foot long. That’s a BIG mural.

Here are some pictures of the mural as installed at the Galleria.

The murals are painted on a canvas type of material on multiple panels and then installed at the mural site like wall paper. This particular mural was painted by over 15 different artists at different times.

After some careful measurements of the Millennium Ballroom at the Loews, we figured out a way to make it happen. Now down to the logistics… there was a previous event booked in the ballroom until 3:00 PM that day and the wall ball began at 5:30 PM. Could we install the rigging and make it happen in such a short time? OF COURSE! Our lighting designers specified a lighting plan to make the mural POP. We also provided a dual screen projection system for their presentation in another ballroom and two separate sound systems for the event. But the main attraction was the mural.

Four Weddings is a prime time show that features four weddings per episode. The brides go to each others weddings as guests and rate the wedding on many different areas. The brides loved the views from One Atlantic, the 300 hanging candles we provided for the ceremony and the room decor.

The Fray’s most famous song is “How To Save A life” which is the theme song from the hit TV show, Grays Anatomy.

The concert featured a 40X40 Stage, a 26 speaker line array sound system, 100 feet of lighting truss with 126 stage lights. Complementing the conventional lights were 16 Martin moving head intelligent lights and a host of special effect lights.

While we have worked with many nationally touring artists, it is always fun to see the requests the bands make as well as the logistics that nationally touring acts have to deal with. The Fray traveled with two 52’ tractor trailers loaded with their equipment, merchandise for sale and supplies. They actually had a Yamaha baby grand piano that they lug around with them. I thought it was amusing that at least 6 different crew members asked me what state they were in!

The band travels in the lap of luxury in three tour buses with High Definition satellite TV, full kitchens and luxurious sleeping accommodations rivaling most hotels. But life on the road is tough. The Fray was in Boston the night before and was traveling overnight back into upstate New York.  When they woke up, they had a 1.5 hour yoga session right in the back of the gym and then went on a quick tour of Philadelphia seeking out vintage record shops to satisfy one of the members obsession with rare vintage LPs

Special thanks to our friend Kevin York for some of these great images.

The great sounding D&B line array system.

The Fray timelapse - Eventions from Brian Toner on Vimeo.

In November of 2007, Eventions Productions collaborated up with the highly creative team from Table Art to produce this incredible bar mitzvah. The Philadelphia Chapter of ISES (The International Special Events Society) honored us with the Liberty Award for “Best Event Decor” for our use of lighting and video for this celebration.

The client came to the design team with the dream of a “zen like” party and showed us a picture of a blue room with these floating candles. Our lighting and video designers along with Kathy Warden and the team at TableArt worked for months planning an all-enveloping multi-media experience using floor to ceiling high definition video images to be one of the primary decor pieces. Video images of water, fire, flowers and other nature elements were projected onto the walls of the room and were synchronized to change through the night as the party progressed.

Another use of the video walls was for the montage presentation. The client had video footage of the guest of honor from the day he was born allowing Dave Williams from Cinema Cake to create a truly multimedia montage. There were 6 simultaneous video images being projected at the same time. The effect was AWESOME

We also fabricated this 10’ square floating bento box for the cocktail hour food displays.

Photo Credit - Susan Beard

One of the main features of the event was the 600 individual taper candles that we hung from the ceiling throughout the entire space. The installation of the candles took a four man team two solid days to install. As you can see, the result was breathtaking.

Here is the recap video from Cinema Cake.

Thank goodness the hotel had plenty of hallways we could use for storage… 45 road cases take up a lot of space

For Danielle’s concept video Dave and his creative staff recreated the SNL video “I’m on a Boat” to “I’m on a Bus”. Dave’s staff rewrote the lyrics and music to fit the new concept. Next up was a new one for us… “can you fit a 52 foot bus into your warehouse?” Our answer was “of course… and I’m afraid to ask, but why? One cold day in January, at 8 AM the bus arrived at our facility and the transformation began to make it “cool” 

Check out the video that was shown the night of the party. - Keep an eye out for a cameo from dave and his wife Sheryl as the bus drivers.

Also, take a look at the “Out Take” video that shows some of the “behind the scenes action”

For the actual party, We supplied a huge truss design with 12 intelligent lights, LED lights and diffusion fog. We also debuted our Chroma Blast LED dance floor and custom fabricated some floating lucite tables utilizing our Chroma Towers as bases. The great thing about our Chroma series of dance floor and Chroma Towers is that they all coordinate with the intelligent lighting used on the dance floor.

And here is the “sneak preview” of the party. Congratulations to Dave, Danielle and the entire Williams Family.