Explore the formal skills required to design dedicated home cinemas and media rooms in this 2-day workshop and learn home cinema design recommended practices from a CEDIA certified subject matter expert.
During this 2-day workshop, you will learn the engineering principles involved in high-performance design, starting with how to assess client needs and progressing on to real-world design. You will also learn to use engineering calculations and understand the science required to create a complete design, all while following and demonstrating world-recognized standards and recommended practices.
Throughout this course, you will study the theory of cinema in detail, and undertake a design exercise for audio, video, and other associated factors including data, heat, and lighting. During day two of the course, you will take part in an interactive workshop to design a cinema from a real client brief including a peer-reviewed design assessment.
Attendees learn about the science of both audio and video in a home cinema room and how to harness those scientific principles to deliver the very highest levels of customer enjoyment. It also helps avoid disappointing results and other pitfalls at install time!
Duration - 2 Days
CEU Points - 12
What's included for attending - Course materials, presentation & lunch
Location - St Neots, UK
With over 30 years of experience in AV, Geoff is one of the most skilled instructors in the industry. He holds all CEDIA certifications, ISF, HAA and Microsoft accreditations and is a specialist in Audio / Video and IP networking. He’s been teaching in AV for nearly twenty years, in both the UK and overseas. To date, he has led classes on six continents.
Geoff’s expertise is called upon for CEDIA awards judging, where he has served as Technical Judge for the last thirteen years, and as Chairman of the awards judging committee for the last seven.
Having started as a technical marketing apprentice with Dutch giant Philips, he went on to work in recording studios as an engineer before landing at AV manufacturer Arcam in the mid 1990s. While there he worked in technical training, brand management and export sales. He managed the US and Canadian markets at the time of the home cinema market’s birth and contributed heavily to Arcam’s product strategy.
In the mid 2000’s he decided to further his knowledge and embarked on a diploma in website development. Completing this in 2009 he started a website development business (prestoav.com) building websites and web-based applications, predominantly for AV and smart home companies. Today, Presto is a successful website builder, with clients such as Monitor Audio, Trinnov, Grahams and Visualization.
Advance your career with CEDIA in-person training that will allow you to gain expert knowledge in smart home installation.