Planning a press conference, conducting a multi-city corporate sales meeting or producing a live Town Hall meeting with audiences in 10 cities can be a complex undertaking, especially when it requires a video or broadcast component.

Have you identified the best venue to spotlight your event? Have you secured specialty talent to lend staying power to your message? Do your lighting and sound elements lend optimal support to the project? Can your satellite truck handle the job?

Pulling off a successful live event requires a well-orchestrated effort that achieves your goals and delivers your message. Doesn't it make sense to turn to a production company that specializes in live events?

NBN's Live & Special Events Group offers the in-house talent and resources to manage every aspect of your production. Our services include the technology - sound stages, digital editing, lighting, audio-visual, mobile broadcast facilities - and intellectual resources needed to maximize your production's impact.

Whether you have a small, single location event or a live, multi-city production domestic and abroad, NBN can manage it, from graphics and animation to special effects and hyperlinks produced by a single production facility.

Why Choose NBN?

NBN's video production capabilities include staff producers, editors and technicians with facilities in our New York, Chicago and Los Angeles offices.

Our senior producers possess a unique mix of live television production and broadcast news experience as well as a deep understanding of the technical complexities of live events.

Our Live & Special Events Group specializes in projects such as press events, multi-camera live satellite broadcasts, media tours and videoconferences.

Our production packages are tailored to your specific requirements. We also assume responsibility for location scouting, planning and procuring any necessary permits, studios, trucks, audio/visual, lighting, satellite, crewing and rigging.

Our Specialty: Technically complex and creatively challenging projects, frequently accompanied by tight deadlines and stringent budgets. Here are a few of our recent projects.

United Nations

Scripted and produced 11-city, national town hall meeting hosted by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Walter Cronkite.

This project required a crew of 300 in 11 cities and UN headquarters, with two-way audio and video connections between each location and master control in New York. The event was simulcast by national news media and the New York City Jumbotron.

Turn-around time: Seven days

NYC Office of Emergency Management

Produced a complex multi-camera production for this terrorist attack response drill providing eyes-and-ears to decision makers located in a crisis command center. The video was to be repurposed later into a training piece for review and training.

Turn-around time: Nine days
Budget: $50,000

Kellogg's

Scripted, choreographed and produced a two-hour, live, Oscars-like award show for kids at the Hudson Theater. Hosted by Rosie O'Donnell, the Tony the Tiger Courage Awards featured three live acts between award presentations. NBN provided creative expertise, wrote the show flow, produced roll-ins and 3-D computer animated graphics, designed the stage plot, hired and managed the crew and handled all technical and logistical work to incorporate a five-piece rock group, dance troop and performance artist into the show.

Budget: $275,000

Boeing

Staged and produced a "flash" press conference for their surprise head- quarters relocation announcement. We had 90 minutes from the word "go" to convert a patch of tarmac at Chicago's Midway Airport into a remote location press conference venue for 500 attendees, with a 737 aircraft as a backdrop and a live, three-camera video feed.

Budget: $36,000

Stanford University

Produced a technically innovative fund- raising video as the centerpiece of the largest and most ambitious under- graduate fundraising campaign in history. With a crew of 75 and three camera units, it was shot in both 35mm and hi-def with side-by-side, tandem cameras on a single mounting plate.

We arranged to have John Williams score the soundtrack, which the Stanford University Orchestra recorded at Skywalker Studios. The result was a moving, immersive and panoramic experience projected onto two screens. The video's finale was a Baraka/ Koyaanisqatsi-esque sequence featuring time-lapsed, motion control footage.

Budget: $2.7 million