Motivational Speakers

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but motivational speakers love to see themselves on tape—and sell those tapes.

Vic took a crew across country one summer with a remote truck and a 50 foot trailer loaded with sets, light rigs and 40 channel sound system.

Preproduction preparation is extremely challenging. Flying to each of the five venues, securing a large enough ball room, negotiating with the hotel AND the unions took more than a month. Then a long series of meetings and rehearsals with the crew before we ever left San Diego. Every crew member had to know in advance what they were required to do, how they were going to do it and how much time they had to accomplish each task. A ball room was rented for a week in Southern California to rehearse set up, camera angles, sound, lighting and strike.

Why such a need for precision?
From the moment we gained access to each ball room we had 36 hours to convert it into a studio.

Education:

·          Tacoma Community College
  Communications

·          Kansas State University
  Communications

·          Clover Park Tech College
  Radio & Television Prod

·          Chaparral Career College
  Business Administration

 
Vic Everett

 Credits:

·          KTVW-TV13 (Ind), Tacoma
  Director

·          KVOA-TV4 (NBC), Tucson
  Producer/Director

·          McCaw Cablevision, Tucson
  Production Manager

·          World Video Productions,
   San Diego
   General Manager

·          Master Vision Productions,
   San Diego
   V.P. Television Production

·          Master Vision Productions,
   San Diego
   Owner, Producer, Director

·          KLBC-TV2, Laughlin, NV
   Production Manager

Motivational Speakers (cont)

A crew of ten had to erect a 60X60 stage with a full set, light grid above the stage and three light trees in the audience and full sound system. Oh, and did I mention 5 cameras (one on a mini jib) and a 40 foot remote truck? It can be done, but it’s not easy.

The day before each shoot the crew would work 16 hours or more straight, get about 4 hours of sleep and then come back for final tweaking, sound checks and camera rehearsal. The engineers in the remote truck sometimes didn’t get to sleep at all.

We would then shoot the 3 hour program live to tape, backing it up with isolated cameras.

Once the program ended we had a maximum of four hours to strike everything and clear the room. Usually hotel crews were on the side lines waiting to set up for the next scheduled event.

Then the remote and equipment trucks would hit the road for the next venue and all of the crew would head back to their hotel rooms to die.