03/05/2023

Orchard Media and Events Who we are !

We are a passionate bunch, combining creativity with the ability to make things happen!

Audio Visual

Our AV Team offer highly trained and professional service whether dry hire or onsite , from parties to large scale festivals we can

accommodate all the technical requirements . 

Services include:Lighting

Sound Audio Visual

Staging Power

RiggingProjections

Crewing Storage

Corporate Events &

Exhibitions Our Events Team offer high quality, imaginative and high impact events -

from conferences to trade shows , parties to product launches, team building to award ceremonies, whether it is an intimate private event  or

a large scale outdoor festival. 

Services include:Event Management

Full Design and BuildAv Solutions

2D and 3D visualisations Content Production

Onsite installation Onsite Staffing

ShowcallersSecurity and Stewarding Transport and Logistics

Productio

n Orchard’s production department create and produce

the highest quality screen content for broadcast and non broadcast use

Services include:Creative Concept Development

ResearchStory boarding

ScriptingCasting

Location FindingProducing & Directing

EditingDub

Copy TestingClearcast Ad Clearance

DVD Chaptering & DuplicationDistribution to broadcasters

Adaptation for Web

Studio and Design

Our talented bunch of multi-discipline in-house designers, web developers and animators, are responsible for creating unique ideas, smart solutions and making your brand come alive. Give us a design challenge and we’ll

come up with the solution.

Services include:Design

Print Large Format

Branding Web design

Website Implementation Animations

Screen Content Augmented Reality

Virtual Reality

Some Clients

Case StudiesAn example of our production project for ‘Visit Wales’

Heineken Cup Venue – Twickenham Stadium For the second year running Orchard were hire by ERC to manage the Live Draw of the Heineken Cup Pools DrawIn 2010 the draw took place in St David’s Hotel in Cardiff Bay but in 2011 it moved to the home of English Rugby – Twickenham Stadium Orchard managed all the elements require for a live event of this importance. The nations press would be present at the live event but it also had to be webcast to all the teams and interested parties across Europe Orcvhard supplied all the Audio Visual Equipment, Sound, Set design whilst local suppliers were managed by Orchard to provide Camera crews, Lighting, Staging and, webcast facilities For an event of this importance, getting it right first time is essential. For that reason Orchard provided back-ups and fail safes within the event plan so that if the worst happened then the event would still carry onThe event ran successfully and on time

Paolo Nutiniwhen we promoted our first ever show with the then-22 year old singer-songwriter at the beautiful Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. Playing in support of his first #1 album ‘Sunny Side Up’, Paolo performed an electric set to a sell-out crowd within the majestic grandeur of the Donald Gordon Theatre at the Wales Millennium Centre.Orchard brought Paolo back to Wales in June 2011, this time heading west to Aberystwyth Arts Centre Orchard secured a date at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena as part of what was Paolo’s biggest UK Arena Tour to date for the 31st October 2014, but illness struck and the show was rescheduled for January 2015On the 20th of June 2015, 12,000 packed in to Singleton Park in Swansea for Paolo’s largest show in Wales so far. Tickets for the show flew out of the door with Paolo at the top of his game; his acclaimed third album Caustic Love having gone straight in at Number 1, quickly reached platinum status and was one of the biggest selling records in 2015 in the UK, cementing his place as one of the country’s leading artists.In what was his only UK show of 2016, the singer ran through his many hits at the emotionally-charged concert, and donated all profits to charity

Moving Minds 2 – Johnson and Johnson

The Orchard events team have just returned from project managing a week-long medical conference for our international medical client Johnson and Johnson ,

Amongst the challenges facing our Orchard Events Team was how to provide a display solution that could deal with the high levels of natural light in the main plenary room. By providing a bespoke 40ft wide 80,000 lumens projection screen, we were able to allow the natural light to remain, with multi-pip (picture-in-picture) facilities controlled by Watchout.  

Onsite camera crews and photographers captured the whole event for posterity.

The main conference comprised of 23 sessions with 8 keynote speakers, a CSR event and a formal dinner with spectacular views over London.

3St David Awards 2015

Orchard was engaged by Welsh Government to manage the prestigious 2015 St. David Awards ceremony, held in the Senedd building in Cardiff Bay. The black tie event was hosted by Jason Mohammed and Angharad Mair with celebrities such as Michael Sheen and Karl Jenkins attending.

Orchard was given a brief to produce and manage a visually spectacular live event suitable for both live audience and filming for broadcast; ensuring the smooth running of the event and compliance with all Welsh Government requirements and standards.

Orchard produced all the winner videos and in order to ensure the guests viewed the videos in the best possible quality we also provided its 9 panel Full HD video wall to compliment the modern and contemporary feel and look of the Senedd building.

To this we also added LED floodlighting to the interior and exterior of the building as well as moving light packages inside. Orchard liaised directly with the venue and all partners to schedule and manage staff onsite. The whole evening went without a hitch.

5Project: NATO Summit Media Reception

The brief was to design, produce and manage a high profile Media Reception event at Tredegar House, to entertain a number of media figures from around the world during the NATO Summit. The event was to showcase the best of Wales in its look and feel, which was to follow the 'Wales Made' brand developed for the Summit, in the entertainment we were to provide, and to showcase the finest Welsh food and drink.

Alongside a complete Event Management solution (including logistics, traffic and security management), Orchard designed the look and feel of the event. We used a clearspan marquee in front of a floodlit Tredegar House to really show off its attractive façade to best effect.

We engaged the finest Welsh food and drink suppliers to showcase great Welsh fayre. As Orchard works regularly with these suppliers on Welsh food events around the world, we were able to bring in the Welsh Culinary Team, featuring some of Wales' leading chefs, to create a rolling hot buffet of samples of the best flavours of Wales, promote leading Welsh international food brands, and give journalists the chance to sample specially brewed beers for the occasion, such as 'Obeerma' and 'Merkale'.

Orchard provided high quality furnishing and dressing, staging, lighting and all audio visual equipment for the marquee. The 'Wales Made' brand was in evidence throughout, with large contemporary images of Wales, and our own large scale 103" screens playing Welsh tourism films on loop. We created a striking and impactful CROESO installation to welcome guests, which proved extremely popular.

This NATO event was for a significant and influential audience, and created a hugely positive impression of Wales to the world's media.  It was very well received, and played a part in the overall success of the Summit for Wales in global terms.  It also demonstrated Orchard’s ability to handle high profile events at relatively short notice, because of the sufficient in-house resources and infrastructure Orchard has to be able to react to requirements as they emerge, and a network of suppliers and freelance staff to call on as appropriate.

Interceltique, Lorient 2008 - 2015Event Brief The Welsh Government’s European and External Affairs Division led a major promotion of Wales at one of the biggest festivals in France when the Festival Interceltique in Lorient, Brittany celebrated the Year of Wales. For 10 days more than 700,000 visitors to the festival were treated to all things Welsh.SolutionOrchard were totally responsible for delivery of the whole exhibition space and the content of the space within.The exhibition space was designed in house, in collaboration with the IBW project team.Technical support and design involvement involved creating a 15-metre frontage bar area, three individual catering and servery areas and display booths for companies demonstrating “all things Welsh”. An important aspect of the project was ensuring strict food hygiene standards were enforced and that catering equipment, layout and waste provisions were in compliance with the show organiser’s regulations. Orchard installed a fully operational temporary kitchen supplied by a locally sourced cool storage container unit allowing freighted Welsh food product to reach Brittany and be stored immediately to regulation standards. 

Dwr Cymru Event BriefTo create an inviting and engaging presence for Dwr Cymru (Welsh Water), capable of travelling nationwide and interacting with their customers. The lead time from conception to delivery was only 4 weeks and the roadshows ran nationwide for 10 weeks with limited time for change overs. 

The Solution Orchard designed a bespoke inflatable structure with custom branding and graphics. Premiering Orchard AV’s M3 Air Geo Dome - the only 8M x 8M temporary dome available in the UK market today – it proved to be quite the eye-catcher at public events with through-put of visitors higher than expected. 

Due to the nature of the structure Orchard undertook structure calculations, including wind speed and stability to ensure the safety of the overall concept was at a high level, exceeding LOLER and PUWER legislation. All aspects from concept, design, delivery, logistics and H&S were managed by Orchard.

Singleton Park

Orchard produced its first concerts at the City’s largest urban park in June 2015, with thousands of music fans cramming in first for standalone show by Scottish soul-superstar Paolo Nutini, then the following day for the more family orientated Summer in Singleton, which featured performances by Britain’s biggest selling tenor Alfie Boe, X Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson, Britain’s Got Talent winners Collabro and West End star Sophie Evans.The lure of such a beautiful site, which overlooks Swansea Bay, was too much to resist and we returned to Singleton Park on the 2nd of September 2016, this time with the legendary Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds, with a stellar support bill featuring Scottish indie-rockers Frightened Rabbit, former Supergrass frontman and Mercury Prize nominee Gaz Coombes, and Welsh upstarts Pretty Vicious. For these shows Orchard Entertainment delivered the following aspects: Artist Booking, Ticketing, Marketing, Web & Social Media, PR, Production Planning & Management, Artist Advance, Artist Liaison, Event Management, and Budgeting.

ABS 2105

Event Brief Orchard were commissioned to design build and manage a series of exhibitions for a large medical client throughout the UK. As a leader in its field the client wanted a stand that portrayed all of its brand values , was open and inviting , informative and visually impressive

Solution Orchard designed a modern open and inviting stand within the 5m x 5m footprint (Open on 3 sides). The stand incorporated a 110 inch video wall as the main feature with internally lit feature walls displaying information and product

Greenman & Festival No 6 - 2015

Event BriefThe brief was to provide Visit Wales with a platform on which to raise the profile of Wales as a short break and holiday destination at both the Greenman and No.6 Festivals.  Solution:Key to the stand design was facilitating a practical and attractive solution to display and distribute brochures and leaflets, whilst providing an inviting and welcoming environment.  Cookery demonstrations and children’s activities as well as story-telling sessions, were also a key part to the daily activities on offer at the stand.Strong Wales imagery was projected to attract stand traffic.Orchard provided a teepee tent that showcased the Wales tourism proposition in an effective, consistent, and impactful manner.

Castle Concert SeriesWhen you see your favourite artist in a special setting you get two stars for the price of one!That’s our mantra when producing concerts across a series of Wales’ most spectacular Castles. It began on a glorious July evening in 2014 when we took Paul Weller, a true British Rock ’n’ Roll icon, to the amazing setting of Cardiff’s 11th century medieval castle, situated slap-bang in the centre of Europe’s fastest growing Capital city.The proposition was a no-brainer for the 8,500 eager souls who packed in to Cardiff Castle to see ‘The Modfather’ charge through a remarkable set of classic hits and new material on 24th of July 2014.In 2015 we stepped under the portcullis of Pembroke Castle in West Wales, with classical crossover stars Only Men Aloud in tow for another special event, and returned there in July 2016 to present three nights of entertainment with Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Jamie Lawson and Abba Revival.August 2016 saw us bring the legendary nutty boys Madness in to the South Wales valleys, for a show in the grounds of the beautiful Cyfarthfa Castle at Merthyr Tydfil.A month later Orchard lowered the drawbridge of Caerphilly Castle to outdoor live concerts for the first time, as the medieval fortification played host to Britpop legends Ocean Colour Scene and Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley across two nights.

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