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Commando Challenge 2017 – filming the event

20th October 2017 by ripplerob

We were delighted to be working on the Commando Challenge 2017 on Woodbury Common with an amazing team of volunteers. The participants undergo the same gruelling challenges that the Royal Marines do as part of basic training, raising money for the Royal Marine Charity and for Devon Air Ambulance. To allow more people to watch the participants going round the course, we set up a large LED screen back at the Challenge Village.

A team of volunteers filmed people at different parts of the course and raced back with the videos. We edited them as fast as possible to put them up on the screen for supporters and helpers to enjoy. It was a brilliant team effort and a very effective way of sharing the experience with a wider group of people – and for many people to get to see clips of themselves, once they were safely back at the Village.

 

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Lost Weekend arrives in Exeter – live streaming multi-player gaming

5th October 2017 by ripplerob

We are really excited to be working at the Lost Weekend in Exeter which is a three day festival of ideas, art, music, film and creative workshops on 6- 8 Oct. We will be based on Cathedral Green all day on Saturday with a series of events to support. There’s an amazing programme of activities across the city – something for everyone.

Events include Apple Store workshops, RAMM Digital Heritage, Radio Production Workshops – and the music events sound intriguing and inclusive. There’s the Lost Music festival with panels and advice as well as workshops. ‘Forever Me’ is a display of 200 shado boxes to illustrate the collective digital immortality of a community, while Choral Cuisine will see 50 diners collectively composing a symphony whilst sitting down to a delicious communal meal.

Our events:

9.30am – live screening of TedX talks

5pm – Massive Local Multi-Player Gaming organised by Tech Exeter – live streaming

During the day – Relaying Facebook Live videos being taken by volunteers at events all over Exeter. Relaying videos of some of the bands and music happening as part of the Lost Weekend.

We will be providing the LED screen and technical crew for the day – should be an amazing experience.

Filed Under: news Tagged With: facebook live streaming, lost weekend

Waggle Events chosen as supplier to WestCountry Services

2nd October 2017 by ripplerob

Waggle Events are delighted to be chosen as the preferred supplier of audio visual equipment and resource to Westcountry Services Ltd. In 2017, Ripple Events supplied the PA, speakers, live camera feed and LED screen at the South West Youth Games. The 2017 SWYG, held in Okehampton, were organised with Westcountry Services as a strategic partner to the Games’ Trust. Waggle Events ran a live camera stream to a LED screen which greatly enhanced the experience for viewers at the event. Outdoor events and the use of a camera stream to LED screen has become very popular as a way of increasing visibility and reach for sponsors as well as a way of increasing the number of people able to view demonstrations and interviews.

Every year the South West Youth Games gives more than a thousand participants the chance to be part of something special. The region’s largest sporting event gives young people the chance to come together in the spirit of competition, fair play and friendship.Combining a fun event with healthy competition, the South West Youth Games inspires children and young people to take up regular sporting activities, which can help them lead healthier lives. Read more HERE

WestCountry Services offers commercial sponsorship, event management and marketing services across the South West. Read more HERE

 

Filed Under: news Tagged With: outdoor screen events, SWYG

Food festival demo stage audio visuals

16th September 2017 by ripplerob

The Weston-super-Mare Food Festival was on 16 Sept with cooking demos, food stalls and activities and food festival audio visuals from Ripple Events. We ran the demo stage showcasing The School Chef, multi-award winning school Chef Steve Fowell, a local head chef at Mendip Green Primary School. Steve and guest chefs including his “Young Baking Team of the Year” cooked up a storm in the kitchen with some recipes from his cookbook “Family Cooking with The School Chef”…if you love cooking with your family, you will love the Eat: Weston demo kitchen this year.

Line Up:
11am – Mendip Green Primary School Young Baking Team – Mendip Green School, W-s-M
“A Taste of Somerset” Pasties

12pm – Phil Blake – The Ship Inn, Uphill,
A Pan roasted Pork chop and Crispy sage, served with a warm salad of apple and radicchio with Apple cider vinegar

1pm – Ryan Spencer – The Imperial,
Braised Hake, served with new potatoes, prawns, and a lemon and caper butter sauce.

2pm – Steve Fowell – The School Chef
3 Ways with Chicken: Chorizo stuffed chicken breast, Chicken Fricasee and Chicken Chow Mein

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Devon Air Ambulance Family Day

13th September 2017 by ripplerob

We had a great time at the DAA 25th Anniversary Family Day at Darts Farm, providing support to the main stage for the live music and providing the outdoor screen for events. We enjoyed working with BitPod on the live streaming to the outdoor screen in the demo areas. We put up a big screen and speakers so that the emergency services could re-enact some scenarios – an excellent way of demonstrating just how much work goes into an incident like a car accident.

The team set up a simulated car accident to show how the emergency services would tackle an incident like this and how the services work toegther. The screen meant that the incident could be watched from across the field and BitPod were live streaming online, realy extending the reach of the family day to those watching at home.

In spite of unsettled weather, a lot of people turned out to support the Devon Air Ambulance and take a look inside one of the helicopters.

Filed Under: news Tagged With: outdoor audio visuals, outdoor screen events

Projector installation for a primary school

6th September 2017 by ripplerob

Installing a projector system into Denbury Primary School

Denbury Primary School is a small, village school 3 miles from the market town of Newton Abbot, with an busy programme of activities and clubs for the children. As part of the Parent Teacher Association’s commitment to enriching the learning and cultural facilities at the school, the PTA made it their goal in 2017 to equip the main school hall with a projector, screen and speakers.

Due to our experience providing audio visual solutions within schools, Ripple Events were asked to put together a specification for the system to provide a simple-to-use, yet tamper proof, system. We were delighted to work with the school and were able to offer our professional expertise and time free of charge as a part of our commitment to local community projects. We were also able to supply the equipment needed at cost, which significantly increased the spending power of a small school with only 114 pupils and limited resources.

One of the key factors to consider was striking the balance between cost and performance. It can be too tempting to over specify a project when it’s not always necessary. There are many cutting edge, touch screen options for system automation which we did consider. However, that would have reduced the budget available for the projector and made the system expensive to edit for future development.

For these reasons, a clearly marked push button solution was used allowing the system to be switched on, turned off and the volume to be adjusted.  The source bottom was also used to ensure the HDMI input could be selected if it was not recognised automatically.

projector for schools

The single HDMI input makes a simple connection for high quality pictures without fragile pins that can get bent and damaged.  In this instance, we are also using the audio connections. As well as mounting the controls high up to be out of reach of smaller hands, the system automatically locks out and cannot be turned on without a security code entered into the control panel. The panel will stay live while in use and when you power down, it locks.

Being a traditional village school hall with lath and plaster walls and ceiling, running the cables within the walls was going to risk making more of a mess than it would give an advantage. For this reason, cables were run with round conduit which was shaped and adapted to the walls without any breaks.

Powered speakers were mounted either side of the screen with a single audio feed from the projector. This allowed us to set a maximum volume to a position that will ensure the longevity of the speakers and be confident that this level will not be exceeded.

projector and speakers

The end result of this installation is a smart, easy to use system that will give the school years of use and allow the hall to be used in the diverse way it needs to provide.

Additional Work within the School

Over the summer we also carried out a complete service of the audio visuals within the classrooms.  This involved a half day survey to check lamp and filter hours, check all video and audio connections, check cabling and smart board operations.  From this survey we made recommendations and gave a clear quotation for the required servicing, replacement lamps and advisory upgraded to HDMI inputs.

The work corrected long standing faults with interactive Smart boards that were not responding and increased accuracy for all interactive boards.

smartboards in schools

 

Replacement of a damaged projector including the reconfiguring and replacement of inputs.

projector for schools

 

The upgrade of 3 further classrooms to HDMI inputs.

HDMI outputs

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: news Tagged With: audio visual systems Devon, projector for schools, school sound systems

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