Riverside

Riverside runs several events every year, from an internal retreat and learning expo to an investor meeting where every number on the screen matters.

We started with them in 2019, building the LED wall content and running the media servers on site.

The show still had to happen, with nobody in a room together.

When lockdown hit, the event went virtual instead of going away. Brad Jones had been hired to produce and edit the whole thing, with a small crew on site and CT as the video vendor shooting the “live” segments that would be cut into the finished pieces. It quickly became more work than one editor could carry.

We got a phone call and got on a plane. Every deliverable landed on time. That is where our editorial relationship with Brad started.

The next few years followed roughly the same model. Whatever came back from the set had to become finished content, and we were part of the team doing it. Some of it we shot ourselves against green screen and finished with the VFX to place it in the show.

We also carried some of the LED graphics on the “live” set. Another content company handled the bulk of them; we filled the gaps, because we were already there and already knew the show.

Every graph and every dollar amount in that stream went out under their name.

The group keeps its own person on the internal decks, and those decks change constantly - sometimes hundreds of revisions across the few days of an event. Writing them or checking the numbers was never our job. Ours was to be absolutely certain the version on screen was the current one, every single time. Through the Covid years that sat squarely on us and on Brad.

The show runs in a room again.

We cut the live dailies CT produces and get them ready for the stream. The format changed; the scrutiny did not.

LED walls, then virtual editorial, then back to live shows and same-day streams. The format changed a few times. The client did not.

Same client, same calendar, since 2019.