SW Audio Visual’s Vancouver Team, delivers a unique but inspiring show for the first Annual Canadian Video Game Awards at the New Vancouver Convention Centre’s New West Building.
Production planning on the Canadian Video Game Award Show started months in advance . The award show included a symphony perfromance interspersed with a complex awards program.
SW audio visual oversaw the delivery and set-up of all the production elements including sound, lighting, video, set design, tele-prompting, and show direction.
The City of Richmond and SW Audio Visual celebrated its success in helping to host the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. From the Richmond Olympic Oval, where capacity crowds saw several Olympic records smashed, to the Richmond O Zone, where 400,000 visitors celebrated the Olympic spirit, Richmond had many golden moments throughout the 2010 Games.
“It was great to be part of the 2010 Olympics!” boasts Eric Doucet, Vancouver Regional Branch Manager for SW Audio Visual and Technical Director for the Richmond Ozone event.
“As technical Director of the Richmond O Zone I can tell you that it was a great experience to be part of such a large scale event. There were over 80 bands that came to our stage; from local school choirs to international celebrities like Our Lady Peace. Our daily staff consisted of more than 18 crew and for the set-up and dismantle up to 30 techs were on the call. We were able to set-up one of the biggest stage of all the live sites in less than 12 hours. Our team was great to work with and will never forget this experience.”
Large crowds who cheered Team Canada to gold medals in men’s and women’s hockey on the O Zone’s giant screens on the final weekend of the Games, helped lift final attendance numbers for the City’s official celebration site to 400,000. That included 120,000 who attended Holland Heineken House, the most popular attraction of the O Zone. Richmond’s attendance set a new record for Holland Heineken House, which has been a crowd favorite at the past Olympic Summer and Winter Games.
Services Provided by SW during this event:
Sound + Concert Performance Sound
Staging Design + Installation Services
Temporary Power + Electrical
Video + Broadcast Support
Lighting
Large LED Screens
SW has proven themselves to be one of the leading Audio Visual suppliers in all of Western Canada! Contact SW Audio Visual for your next event! Our experienced sales team will consult on sound equipment, lighting, staging and visuals for your show. Let SW take care of all needs!
Email us at info@sw-online.com or call us Toll Free 1-800-909-7928
SW Audio Visual has provided audio visual services for meetings and conferences at the Delta Grand Resort and Conference Centre in Kelowna BC, for nearly 18 years.
Led by Ben Pidskalny – SW Audio Visual’s General Manger for the BC Interior – this project started with a client consultation and briefing using CADD drawings of the Delta Grand Okanagan Resort and Conference Centre’s main ballroom floor.
Working together with the Client, Ben and his crew determined the technical implementation to best achieve the Client’s vision.The project started with a single screen in the centre with white drape on either side, but to include an awards gala presentation, the 7 screen setup quickly became the best and most economical solution to achieve all the Client’s requests.
Using hi-res panoramic HD shots, Ben and the crew broke the images into 7 segments to be projected on each screen, cycling through the various panoramic images every few minutes to create the nice effect of an 80-foot video backdrop.
‘The Sterling Awards experience for 2009 was tremendously exciting for everyone who attended’, says Lee Mason, Executive Director of the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce, as he thanks everyone for their contribution to the Nanaimo Business Excellence Awards this year.
Brent Nicholson, Victoria Regional Manager for SW explains ‘the client was blown away by the way we stepped up the production of the awards show. All the guests were ecstatic to attend as Nanaimo has not seen a show of this caliber. They loved the look of the event and the feel of the atmosphere the look created.
Over 1000 recipients were honoured for their hard work in the community during the Business Excellence Awards.
For inquiries or information regarding our Victoria/Naniamo office, please contact Brent Nicholson at bnicholson@sw-online.com
SW Audio Visual is there to provide Video Broadcast, Lighting, Sound, Staging and Temporary Event Power.
The City of Richmond invited the entire community to celebrate the Grand Opening of the Richmond Oval – a significant milestone for the city – on December 12th and 13th. More than a spectacular venue for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the Oval also signifies a major investment in the overall health and well being of the diverse community of Richmond.
The Richmond Oval is a 512,000 square foot, multi use facility, with capacity for 8,000 spectators and a 400 meter track. Its permanent features include community wellness services and programming, sports medicine and sciences, a major fitness centre, community activity areas, a restaurant and retail space.
As the host venue for a total of 12 medal events and 36 medals to be awarded, the Oval will be one of the busiest venues during the 2010 Games!
SW Services Provided:
Video Broadcast Services
Lighting Design and Lighting Effects
Sound and Concert Performance Sound
Staging Design and Installation
Tradeshow Support
Temporary Power + Electrical
Contact SW Audio Visual for more information about this event and others – Call Toll Free 1-800-909-7928
SW Audio + Visual now provides the WHL’s Kelowna Rockets‘ with live home game coverage broadcast across Prosepera Place’s large four-paneled LED screens so Kelowna Hockey Game Fans can watch all of the highlights!
With a 12 person multi-camera crew and a full broadcast quality switching & graphics suite, SW produces the graphics, content, animations, sponsorship advertising and video clips to support, entertain and fill the LED Screen airtime during the Kelowna Rocket home games at Prospera Place. and keep the crowd interested by capturing up to the minute goals and providing instant replays to add a new level of entertainment!
For more information on this and other video services, please contact SW Creative Services at 250-868-3333 or info@sw-online.com
SW Achieves New Heights at World Police & Fire Games
From the moment the flame was lit during the spectacular opening ceremony at GM Place until the last competator headed home, venues ranging from UBC to Whistler were crawling with full time professional firefighters, law enforcement, customs and correctional officers from around the world!
The World Police & Fire Games feature a wide range of sports including traditional ones like track & field, soccer and softball to unconventional sports like angling, darts and wrist wrestling! The most popular being hockey…
The magnitude of this event far surpases that of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, which expects around 3,500 athletes. World Police & Fire Games has roughly over 10,500 athletes competing making this the largest games in the event’s 24 year history, surpassing the previous record held at the Barcelona games in 2003.
Setting up the games involved major logistical challenges with around 50 venues.
This marks the second time the games have been held in Vancouver and the first time the international organizing body has gone back to a location!
SW has proven themselves to be one of the leading Audio Visual suppliers in all of Western Canada! Contact SW Audio Visual for your next event! Our experienced sales team will consult on sound equipment, lighting, staging and visuals for your show. Let SW take care of all needs!
Each year the shores of Vancouver’s False Creek sound with the excitement of The Alcan Dragon Boat Festival. Committed to the learning and exploration of Canada’s diverse multi-cultural heritage, the festival is open to all members of the public with all-ages culinary shows, concert performances and of course the races themselves.
SW Audio + Visual was proud to be there providing the festival and its audiences with, concert sound equipment and services, staging and fail-proof temporary power.
Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce Awards SW Audio Visual Victoria Business of the Year.
The Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce celebrated the accomplishments of local business in the Victoria Region, with SW’s Victoria Branch receiving the ‘Business Of The Year Award’ for a business with fewer then 10 employees. The nomination was supported by the Victoria Conference Centre.
Brent Nicholson, Victoria Regional Manager for SW, was ecstatic to accept the award. ‘This is an awesome achievement for a business that has grown and expanded in this region over the past few years. I look forward to our branch’s success in all our future endeavors!’. Brent went onto say ‘our success in the community and in the Victoria market place was not only shown by this award, but by the sheer enjoyment of everyone who attended the event’.
SW Victoria not only won the Business of the Year award, they showcased their talents and exceptional service at the awards themselves! “This is the best awards show I’ve seen, and I’ve been doing these awards for seven years!’, exclaims the evenings MC, Marybeth Burton from Channel Victoria.
This was the first time SW Victoria has been nominated for an award and will not be the last!
SW Audio Visual Provides Press Conference Audio Visual Services to Major League Soccer Announcement at the Vancouver Westin
Vancouver will be home of Major League Soccer’s 17th team. It will be the second MLS team in Canada following the launch of Toronto in 2007. The Vancouver team will begin play in 2011 at the newly renovated BC Place Stadium, designed with a 20,000 seat soccer specific configuration.
With SW designing the set along with streaming live video of the press conference on the official MLS Website, the conference was a great success! ‘SW has established a new Gold Standard when it comes to delivering press conferences!’, declared Mr. Don Garber, MLS Commissioner.
