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TECH PROFILE
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND RESILIENCE 2018 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND RESILIENCE (ISNR), CO-ORGANISED BY THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR, IS A GLOBAL EVENT OFFERING A NETWORKING PLATFORM CONNECTING REGIONAL GOVERNMENT BODIES, HOMELAND SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, PROFESSIONALS AND BUYERS WITH INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SOLUTIONS PROVIDERS AND MANUFACTURERS. THE OPENING CEREMONY SAW RED EVENT SERVICES DRAFTED IN AGAIN TO DELIVER THE GOODS.
After a successful ISNR opening in 2016, Red Event Services in Dubai was awarded with the contract in 2018. The final storyboard was approved in December 2017 after a lengthy bidding process and various changes, before content and technical production started immediately. The story of the show, called The Brave, centred around a family that has been separated in a fictional, war-torn city, before being reunited through the efforts of relief teams and search & rescue operations. A big part of the theatrical side was filmed content, Creative and Film Director Rodrigo Kirchner described the filming as challenging: “Without my film team this would not have been
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possible - we had an extreme time line to meet and just as we started our outdoor shoots the weather turned bad. Because the movie script had this immense amount of sound effects included, we started from the beginning filming in 5.1, on separate channels. We used a rig of Red cameras to film all content at the locations provided by twofour54. We also did on-set filming using actors on a green screen that could later be superimposed into stock content.” As the filming determined the set for the theatrical live production (the existing film set needed to be recreated inside ADNEC ICC), the team of Red Events Operations Director, Marcin Banazsevksi, and Production Coordinators, Abdul
Rehman Shaikh and Farhanah Magumpara, had just 4 days off site and 4 days on site to build a 60m by 7m stage set with trap doors aligning to the LED back wall. They were also responsible for the VIP deck build and all prop preparation for the event. Banazsevski said: “Since me and my team built the set 2 years back for the same opening show, there weren’t too many challenges. that said, my prop builders, set painters and carpenters have done a phenomenal job.” Production Director, Stefan Wieland, gathered the production team and developed the AV aspects of the theatrical play, putting the creatives wishes and requirements of Executive