LAS VEGAS — The visual design team for the 28th International Brotherhood of Teamsters Convention (IBT), which drew more than 6,000 attendees to the Paris Hotel June 27-July 1, included Rene Lagler (production designer), Jon Kuser (lighting designer) and Alan Wells (director and graphics designer).
Chaos Visual Productions was also on hand to provide visual support for the event, which is held only once every five years. The event was presided over by Teamsters general president James P. Hoffa and featured a keynote address from U.S. vice president Joe Biden.
The event’s staging supervisor, John Bradley, also worked with Chaos Visual’s project manager, Barry Claxton, and crew members Peter Blue, Brandon Oosterhof, Joseph Denham, and Scott Goegebuerto to provide the event with several key visual focal points.
These included a center 40-by-22-foot rear projection screen, two 12 by 20.5 foot I-Mag screens with 246 Barco NX 4mm tiles and four 8-by-20-foot “ribbons” made from 220 9mm WinVision tiles. Front projection surfaces included two 16-by-9 foot screens, one lit with two 35K Christie HD projectors and the other with eight Christie 10K HD projectors.
The event’s executive producer, Ricky Kirshner of RK Corporate Productions, who worked with Lisa Geers, executive in charge of production, and Cisco Henson, supervising producer, on the event, has worked with Chaos on big events before, noted John Wiseman, Chaos Visual CEO. Prior collaborations included the 2008 Super Bowl Halftime Show and, in early 2009, the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball for President Barack Obama.
“It was both a thrill and a challenge,” Wiseman said, of the International Teamsters Convention — “really something.” Wiseman also credited Lagler for a “stunning” design.
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