This class our annual Best of Show award impinge on the heavy screen . For the first fourth dimension , we run into the big Featured Presentation stage at Expo to vagabond out the winners to a backpack crew . For a first attempt — I kept telling the crew that they were our Best of Show beta - testers — I recollect it blend in off reasonably well . Macworld ’s bearded news program maven Jim Dalrymple and I managed some amusing banter , and we bring representatives of several company on stage to show off their nerveless Mac product on stage .
Of course , Apple always gets thebigstage to make its exposition announcement . But should n’t other company get the chance , too ? That ’s why we created the unexampled Best of Show stage introduction , and it work fair well . I ’m already looking forward to next year ’s , now that we have a year under our rap . I learned a lot from the whole process , and we ’ll apply what we find out to next year ’s awards .
One sphere where I sense we hit the nail on the head were the pre - taped picture presentations of Best of Show winner . Thanks to Alex Lindsay and the team atPixel Corps , we were able-bodied to project a series of professional - looking TV clip of all the award winners onto the big covert during our presentation .
One clip from the show , however , has n’t made it on the entanglement yet . Knowing that we just would n’t know about any of Apple ’s product announcements until the first twenty-four hour period of the show , we create a short humorous video time in which we tried to prefigure every possible Apple product annunciation . Sure , most of them would be misses , but we desire to cover all the bases .
It ’s silly , frivolous , and its only redeeming calibre is that it convey a laugh and some clapping from the audience at the Best of Show awards intro . That was pretty much what we were going for . If you ’re concerned in seeing it , I ’ve posted it on YouTube and embedded it below .
Onward to 2008 !
