Specifications include, but are not limited to: Personnel Requirements: Awarded firm must be certified/licensed to perform this work BAYS (this is provided by contracted staging vendor) Video/Sound Bays • (2) 20 x 20’ bays to hold video screens (2600lbs/each) • (2) Sound bays to hold 9 speakers per side flown from stage roof Commencement Video and Sound Specs for Bid VIDEO • (2) 17’ x 10’ LED daylight video displays to safely suspend from video bays, to the left and right of the stage • All rigging hardware, cables, adapters and accessories • LED Drive rack with onsite backup unit • Digital switcher/format converter for inserting a prerecorded video and a PowerPoint slide • Qualified technicians to install, operate, and strike event • Video Camera System to interface with LED video screens to include professional video camera with appropriate hardware, cables, adapters and accessories with qualified videographer to install, operate, and strike • Ability to receive input from closed captioner during remarks. SOUND • Sound system to include: • mics (2 at center podium, 1 at reader podium on main stage. Multiple for 18-piece brass ensemble with vocalist on side stage), sources also include prerecorded video and PowerPoint slide show located in Fiske Hall lobby with audio CD playback at mix for pre-event announcements. • stands, • snakes, • 16-input digital mixing console, • amps, processing, house speakers, as appropriate for size of audience of approx. 14,000 people with even distribution and a full range to fill the Quad and sidewalk down Appian Way to Student Center o House speakers