Kapoomga 06

crazy silhouette time
Originally uploaded by Scootie.

Well, after a very long hiatus, Camp Kapoomga has finally returned.
This event started out with a bunch of guys from KPMG and their friends going away for a crazy boys weekend of meat eating, beer drinking, and audio visual creativity. Kapoomgas of the past had grown to the point where we had literally vanloads of gear, multiple video editing systems, 20 channel audio mixers, professional video mixers, a five to eight piece band and a full sized PA system.

The problem with this is that you end up with so much gear that it takes a few hours to setup, and a few hours to packdown and you spend a few hundred dollars on gear every time, just to basically have a boozy weekend. All that effort means that it gets harder and harder to organise and we end up going for a couple of years without an event.

This year the decision was taken to return to the core of the event, friends, booze, meat. We went for a minimal approach, two computers, two projectors, one DVD player, one CD player, only about 60 DVDs, 4 cameras, equipment tents, outdoor projection screens, internet connectivity and the band joining us via video-conference from Darwin.

The simplified version worked very well and the costs were kept to a minimum, allowing more meat and booze to be purchased :)