Each section in the Advance Coordination Manual handbook explains the details you need to know when producing ANY event in ANY location. The CD-ROM contains extensive, easy to access templates that coorespond to each of the handbook's sections. Simply choose the items from the template that matches your event production's specifications and use them to design an AC checklist for collecting information pertinent to your type of event.
This information is indispensable to producers, directors, production managers, stage managers, event coordinators, tour managers, promoters, meeting planners and executive assistants who need to collect precise venue or location information to advance coordinate the event productions they manage and produce.
THE AC MANUAL HAS TWO PARTS:
A BOOK, WHICH CONTAINS:
*Brief descriptions, stories and examples that explain the type of information you need to collect when you plan your event.
*References with each section that tell you where to find the corresponding information on the CD-ROM.
*Cross-references with each section that tell you where in the book you can find related information.
*A glossary of event and entertainment industry/production terminology with more than 900 listings of broadcast, concert, event, film, telecommunication, theater, and video terms.
*An ATA carnet instruction booklet. A carnet is a merchandise passport that can be used in more than 40 countries. It makes it easier to ship equipment overseas and from one country to another country on a temporary basis. You use a carnet instead of paying duty or tax or posting a Temporary Import Bond.
*More than 200 photographs and illustrations that include: specific aspects of productions in progress, venue maps, festival and trade show site plots, stage configurations, seating configurations, lighting plots, rigging plots, security placements, and broadcast camera placements.
*Two sample contracts between the event producers and a hotel that define the needs of your event personnel.
A CD-ROM, WHICH CONTAINS:
*Detailed, easy to customize, templates (checklists) in outline form that correspond to each category of information you need to collect. Simply follow the template lists to collect your information.
*Examples of itineraries, event schedules, and contracts that an event, artist or producer might use when doing business with a promoter or facility/venue.
*A "build-your-own" contract rider kit that allows you to pick and choose from among 50 different rider article categories, with a total of over 170 articles, to create your own contract rider. ( A rider is attached to a contract and includes all of your specific requirements and requests for producing your event.)
HOW TO USE THE AC MANUAL:
The simplest way is to read through the book's Table of Contents and identify those sections and subsections that apply to the event you want to produce. Read those sections, and make note of the CD-ROM references at the bottom of each. Then refer to those files on the CD-ROM, load them onto your computer hard drive, and use the templates there to complete your checklist. You can customize each template to suit your event needs.
SOFTWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED ON THE CD-ROM:
DOS: WordPerfect 6.1
WINDOWS 3.1:
MS-Word 6.0
WordPerfect 6.1
Windows 3.1 Write
MACINTOSH:
ClarisWorks 4.0
MacWrite Pro 1.5
MS-Word 5.1
MS-Works 4.0
WordPerfect 3.5
WINDOWS 95, 98 and NT:
ClarisWorks 4.0
Lotus Word Pro 96
MS-Works 4.0
MS-Word 7.0
Windows WordPad
