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The following is a case study of photography services for a large corporate event in 2008. This case study is presented to show scalability of Bay Area Event Photography services. Though ninety percent of our work requires a single photographer, we regularly handle large events that require multiple photographers over mutiple days. The following is a debriefing given to a client from one of their recent large events in April 2008, where we handled all the photography for the event.
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This corporate event consisted of two parts over two weeks:
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Evening events for the company Leadership Forum, April 2-4th, consisting of 3 photography assignments, and one on-site printing service.
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Overall Convention coverage starting Monday April 7th through Thursday April 10th. Full coverage was comprised of
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the overall show photography plus 25 individual assignments and one on-site printing service.
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End clients for photography included:
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· Client internal event management team, |
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· Client internal press team, |
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· US/Canada, Emerging Markets, Japan, APAC, and Europe worldwide theaters, |
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· The general contractor event management company, |
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· And the show vendor for all graphics. |
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Staffing for the entire program consisted of:
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Total time spent from beginning to end:
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3 man-days of accumulated hours spent on client meetings, conference calls, |
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research and scheduling of photographers prior to the show. |
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1.5 man-days for shooting the Leadership Forum evening events. |
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1.5 man-days imaging the Leadership Forum evening events. |
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17.35 days total combined man-hours to shoot the convention show coverage, 25 assignments, and on-site printing. |
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14 man-days of post-production editing, imaging, web building, DVD burning, and delivery. |
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Totaling 37.35 man-days to deliver the finished product. (Assuming an 8 hour day) |
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| Processed Data: |
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All frames were shot in camera raw mode for best quality. All frames were reviewed through Photoshop raw processor, for selection, color/contrast adjustments, and jpg generation. |
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5000 frames shot for the Leadership forum. |
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21000 frames shot in the 4 days of the Convention. |
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On-site delivery of images via the web, for press releases. |
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6925 retouched images for delivery. |
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Two DVDs created, one for the general show, one for all the theater events. |
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Printed Memory Book for client archives. |
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A whopping 314 gigabytes of disk storage making this a new record for us, over twice |
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the previous record set at 130 gigabytes by one client's convention in 2007. |
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