Live Event Production

The Creative Process

A key company value is creativity. It’s part of our DNA and embedded into how we approach every project. Every production starts with a good story line, outline to script and a refining process that doesn’t end until words, sound, and visuals are in perfect harmony.

Capture Your Imagination (1990)

A picture paints a thousand words yet it starts with just one thought from you. And with a touch of inspiration, we’ll capture your imagination and bring to life whatever your mind can see. We will capture your imagination to make it reality, capture your imagination. Whatever you mind can see, we’re Stage Directions.

We created our own Radio Station for our “On Hold” phone system. Lyle Countryman, our first Marketing Director had a career as a Radio DJ. The concept started as something to play at our first Christmas party with “Monster” Bob Boyd our engineer. (1989)

The Power to Communicate Music Video (2004)

As part of our new theme, we enlisted Mr. Scott Hussy to produce an original song for branding which led to the production of this Music Video. Here’s a short section of that work.

WOW Factor (2006) was a presentation  experience we created  to explode your mind.

SHOW WARS (2001)

Show Wars was a promotional video and live event we produced after 911. Yoda encouraged the meeting planners not to cancel their BIG Events and give into their fears. You’ll find Yoda on our site.

Sound Design / Recording Studio / Spatial Audio

In-house studios feature a Voice-Over booth and two production studios that feed into our TASCAM SonicView Digital Mixer, a complete recording solution. Whether we’re recording a full band, building a soundtrack or creating spatial mixes for live events, the technology is at our fingertips.
Digital Graphics / Animation / Compositing

In today’s market, most production projects contain high levels of animation elements, digital backgrounds and content requiring multiple layers to create a final shot or scene. Footage shot on location or in studio gets composited into the video and editing process. Now in live concert events this is done live and in real-time with large LED screens as digital backdrops.
Video Editing / Finishing

Traditionally edit suites were where production magic comes together. Source media, footage, art, graphics, 3D animations along with audio files get ingested into powerful systems where man and machine work to create the final moving picture art. But in this digitally connected age, the reality is it happens on the plane, hotel bedroom, or on site at the control table moments before the show begins.
Virtual Video Studio Production

When COVID struck we turned our studio into a Virtual Production location using our high resolution Absen LED Screen as a digital backdrop going way beyond the traditional green screen backdrops. We live streamed events bringing in remote guests and presenters to reach a virtual audience. As they say, “The Show Must Go On.”
Touch the World with Live Streaming

No longer is your audience just the people you can gather or seat in a ballroom or event center. Capacity becomes unlimited by creating events specifically for a virtual audience or adding to your live event the people that can’t attend.
Producing Experiential Media: Going Beyond Broadcast Formats

SDI history shows our media production work in the event space rarely conformed to television or movie theater formats. We created experiences that matched the client’s vision and purpose, whether five separate screens, a single 10’ x 30’ screen, or a 360 circle theater. Then after the event they needed a version to show on a TV.
Today with digital media it’s all about pixel size and creating a canvas as tall or wide or shaped as wanted. We used to say, “form follows function.” It may fit a building’s facade, or the face of a mountain, or fill an exhibition hall. The sky’s the limit.