Monday, April 16, 2012

Challenge Accepted

I've been in this industry for 6 years and I have slowly grown with the company in the Audio/Visual field, we initially started out as an Outdoor Advertising company that utilized large L.E.D screens, the CEO had purchased some plasma screens and we decided to rent them out. Initially we were only renting the screens similar to furniture simple drop off and pick up, the most we would do is offer a dvd player and thats where our job ended, little by little the BIG boys in the industry couldn't meet the demand so we had to catch up very quickly, now we know all the major connector types offer cabling up to a certain amount of feet free and have our Distributer and Amplifier along with a humbucker and other main tools everywhere that we go, but as I said it wasn't always that way.
The meme below is something I've actually experienced while working here , drawing from A/V knowledge deep within to meet a clients needs with out the proper tools.


Now I will share the actually story :
Our team of 2 had a 6 screen installation to do for the swearing in of a Prime Minister, so really big and fancy event, at the time though as mentioned above we were really just renting the screen, not an a/v service , they had another company doing video for the event and distributing to several areas on site for officials to view from last minute that video company told them they needed 6 more screens so after arriving expecting to simply drop off the screens where they pointed power up and leave we were faced with the task of running cables, finding the ends for these cables, and splitting the signal for the six screens. All I had on me at the time was electrical tape, and my swiss army knife but we found a way to get everything up and running on time.

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