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A Creative Perspective From the Other Side | Being Your Own Client
Doing great work for our clients is easy, but what about when we are creating for oursleves? Highlight reels are not only a staple of our industry, but they’re also a great opportunity for us in the creative business to showcase where we’ve been, what we’ve been doing, and all the possibilities we provide for […]
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GMCC Annual Dinner 2023 | ‘By Design’
Every year, the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Dinner takes place in Madison, Wisconsin. This year, for their 69th annual event, our friends and clients at the Chamber entrusted Tri-Marq to bring their vision to life ‘By Design.’ The event took place at the Monona Terrace Community & Convention Center with 1100 people in […]
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Marquette Centennial Hoopla
Tri-Marq was honored to be part of history, celebrating 100 years of Marquette Men’s Basketball. Tri-Marq partnered with Marquette Athletics to produce this special Centennial Hoopla event at the BMO Harris Bradley Center with nearly 1,000 guests. Marquette recruited 3 former coaches and 125 former players that were in attendance to greet guests on and […]
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Aptos 2017 User’s Conference: Engage!
Tri-Marq Communications partnered with Aptos for its 2017 User’s Conference. The 3-day event was held at the Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida. In the main general session room, Tri-Marq used a 45-foot wide by 15-feet high main screen, with 2 vertical screens flanking the main. Using multiple LED screens, we created an archway as the entrance […]
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Tri-Marq Sponsors Lanyon Live 2015
Lanyon Live featured informative, inspirational speeches from some of the meeting planning industry’s leading minds and most compelling personalities. The latest trends in the meetings, events, travel, and hotel industries were discussed while picking up best practices that inspired everyone. The event was held at the Fairmont Dallas, Dallas TX. Tri-Marq Communications, Inc. was honored […]
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My Guide to Working with Non-Professional Talent
by Amy Wrobel, Producer Telling a compelling story typically requires a good storyteller. For some shoots, we’ll hire professional talent, on-camera, or voice actors to carry the message, but in other situations, it’s better to use real people. Real people–that’s what we ‘in the biz’ call anyone who’s not professional, paid talent. Using non-professional talent […]
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The Back-Up Plan
This week’s post is brought to you by Tri-Marq VP of Sales, Tom Graybill. There’s an old saying: “Murphy was an optimist.” When it comes to A/V at your event, planning for the worst is the best medicine to beat Murphy’s Law. Thus, the importance of the Back-Up Plan. A good Back-Up Plan includes two […]
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Directing Live Coverage: EAA AirVenture 2014
By: Greg Ideran I was lucky to have the opportunity to continue my passion for live directing this year in Oshkosh, WI at EAA AirVenture 2014. Tri-Marq produced over 50 hours of live video spanning the entire week of the EAA event. Footage consisted of simple one-camera interview shoots in addition to eight-camera coverage of […]
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Lumens Aid: Bright Ideas for Picking the Right Projector
Guest entry by Tom Graybill, Tri-Marq Director of Sales There is generally one truth when it comes to projector brightness: the brighter, the better. Filling your screen with a vibrant, bright picture makes it easy for your audience to see your PowerPoint, your video, or your camera shot. But how powerful of a projector do […]
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Making the Connection
Meetings are considered ‘successful’ when they find a way to connect with their audience. As time moves on, event planners and event speakers are looking for more ‘path less traveled’ ways of making a connection and holding their audience’s attention. In the age of digital technology, we’re always looking for new ways to enhance meetings […]
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Building a Better A/V RFP
This week’s blog post comes from Tom Graybill, Tri-Marq’s Director of Sales. One of the most useful – and potentially confusing, frustrating, and irritating – tools in planning meetings is the request for proposal (RFP). When it comes to the audio-visual (A/V) aspects of your event, a poorly composed RFP can lead to the wrong […]
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The Technology WOW Factor
We work with many of our clients year after year (in some cases, for twenty years!), so we’re always thinking of creative ways to make their events bigger and better. The challenge to outshine ourselves is fun for us as it gives our team the chance to bridge creative options with technology. Our clients want […]
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It’s Show Time
Now that it’s January, show production season is in full swing. We just returned from a show in Atlanta for an international company with whom we’ve worked for nearly ten years. This first show of the season kicks off a year of our crew traveling from coast to coast working with clients across many industries. […]
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Meeting Openers
In the last entry, Dan filled you in on instant AV. This week, we want to talk about another type of video in meetings – the meeting opener itself. Video openers are the easiest way for our clients to get their theme across to meeting participants. It can be tough to fit the whole idea […]
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Question Authority
“Question authority” is a concept that we first heard at an employee meeting that we produced for one of our favorite clients, and is a philosophy we have introduced to our own production team. For us, questioning authority means the ability for everyone on our team to ask questions and make suggestions as experts in […]
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Get to Know the Banquet Captain
A few years back we produced an event at a large San Antonio hotel. This property had been around for a number of years and had an established banquet and catering team. During the site visit, I made a point to ask the name of the banquet captain who would be working our event. This […]
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The Importance of Proper Preparation
We were recently hired by a client to work on the creative design of their show and to direct the show on-site. There was an existing vendor who was to provide all of the production equipment. Though this isn’t our usual way of working an event, we trusted the client and the event seemed like […]
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In-house AV vs. Outside Vendors
Each year, Tri-Marq produces a lot of events. Some are large and require semi-trucks full of gear and a small nation of the crew, and some are much smaller, and more manageable, in scale. When it comes to smaller events, the vendor decision often comes down to a choice between in-house Audio/Video (AV) and an […]
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The Real Cost of Foregoing an Event Site Survey
When clients review budgets one of the first items to be questioned is often the production site survey. When you add up the cost of the plane ticket, hotel room, and per diem this line item looks like a great place to trim some budget. So why is the production site survey so important? A […]
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Light It Up
When clients think of stage and set design, they think of set construction and video projection. Sometimes, they need to be reminded of a third important element: lighting design. Creative and exciting light design can make a good show go from ordinary to extraordinary. Everyone sees video projection at shows, but when you see a […]