Index
- Advance Information, booking of Visualiser essential
- - especially important for smaller venues
- - importance of sending presentations ahead
- - must send PowerPoint ahead if using video
- - running order required when using multiple materials
- - time required to scan slides to digital
- Background Presentations, advice on preparing
- Carousel Slides, scanning service
- Collections, see Deliveries
- Deadlines, for receiving presentations
- - time required to scan slides to digital
- Deliveries, arrangements for couriers
- DVD, see Video
- Equipment, electrical safety requirements
- Events, discussion of exact format with Chair
- - sequence of a normal event
- - style of in Highland Park Spiegeltent
- Fire Safety
- Flipcharts
- Highland Park Spiegeltent, basic description
- - photograph of
- Images, see Pictures
- Laptops, facilities for bringing own
- - limited setup time
- - safety requirements for bringing own
- Laser Pointer
- Lectern
- Microphones, clothing and
- - fitting of in Authors' Yurt
- - for Question and Answer
- - handheld
- - Question and Answer limited in smaller venues
- - standard provision of
- Music, see Sound
- Overhead Projectors
- Panel events, microphones for
- - style of in Highland Park Spiegeltent
- Peppers Theatre, basic description
- Pictures, carousel slide conversion service
- - displaying using our software
- - PDF, DOC etc not image files
- - PowerPoint not always best tool for slideshow
- - showing on Visualiser/OHP
- PowerPoint, advice on 'background' presentations
- - Book Festival standard presentation before event
- - considerations when using video
- - deadlines for receiving
- - design tips
- - facilities for in smaller venues
- - general information
- - installed playback system available
- - low display resolution in smaller venues
- - no facilities for in Highland Park Spiegeltent
- - no rehearsals with staff
- - no rehearsals with staff
- - not always best for images
- - reduce risk of crashing by scaling images
- - remote control not able to click on links
- - screen for in four larger theatres
- - standard projection resolution
- - technical and creative advice available
- Presentations, 'background' presentations discouraged
- - checking in advance
- - deadlines for receiving
- - installed playback system available
- Projectors, alternatives to carousel projection
- - Book Festival standard presentation before event
- - facilities for bringing own laptop etc
- - facilities for in smaller venues
- - low display resolution in smaller venues
- - not available in Highland Park Spiegeltent
- - position of screen
- - standard projection resolution
- - Visualisers and OHP
- Props, arrangements for couriers
- - handling and storage onsite
- - limited setup time
- Question and Answer, microphone availability in smaller venues
- - microphones for
- RBS Corner Theatre, basic description
- RBS Imagination Lab, basic description
- - photograph of
- RBS Main Theatre, basic description
- - photograph of
- RBS Workshop Tent, basic description
- Rehearsal, not available on site
- Remote Control, for controlling presentations
- ScottishPower Studio Theatre, basic description
- - photograph of
- Shared Equipment, importance of advance notice
- Slideshows, conversion of carousel slides
- - PDF, DOC etc not image files
- - PowerPoint not always best tool
- - using our software
- Smoking
- Sound, all to be fed through PA system
- - bringing own instruments and playback
- - facilities for live music
- - Music before and after events
- - normal provision in venues
- - playing back recorded
- - standard microphone provision
- Stage, normal configuration
- Standard presentation before and after events
- Storage, for props and other items
- Subtitles, to be contained within videos
- Theatres, Peppers Theatre
- - RBS Corner Theatre
- - RBS Main Theatre
- - ScottishPower Studio Theatre
- - setup of stages
- Venue Managers, definition of role
- - fitting of microphones
- - importance of discussing events with difficult or sensitive AV cues in advance
- - no opportunity to rehearse
- Venues, basic setup of
- - four larger theatres
- - Highland Park Spiegeltent
- - other smaller venues
- - Peppers Theatre
- - RBS Corner Theatre
- - RBS Imagination Lab
- - RBS Main Theatre
- - RBS Workshop Tent
- - ScottishPower Studio Theatre
- - Writers' Retreat
- Video, accepted formats
- - copyright clearances required
- - embedded into PowerPoint
- - facilities for in smaller venues
- - general information
- - no preview at control position
- Visualisers
- Writers' Retreat, basic description