Africa: ITV Presentation
We are up early again to get over to ITV for a 9 a.m. presentation. Alex has made a strong point about showing up early so we can be all set up and ready for the presentation. Maina picks us up and we get to ITV around 8:15 a.m. It is a good thing that we are early, as there is a much lengthier check-in procedure now that we are not accompanied by Lema. We have to account for all of our electronic gear, of which there is a considerable amount. They want to make sure we depart with only what we brought in.
The ITV main studio space is made available for the presentation. There is not a really suitable place for us to project onto, so a large piece of white card is found to serve as a screen.
About 40 people turned out for our presentation.
Alex ran through a modified version of his Pixel Corps launch presentation. He managed to hold the crowd for a good hour and a half. The ITV folks had lots of good questions. They are the sharpest and most put together group we have met thus far. The room was chilled so as to be almost arctic. Alex enjoyed this be the rest of us were thrilled to be finished and back out in the sun.
Our next stop was an all you can eat Indian buffet. They were not quite open when we arrived but Hanif got them to let us in. They had the vegetarian food ready to go. I got to start while the others had to wait for the mixed entrees to be served. There were jokes about me always being served first, as i had previously related stories about being served veg meals on airline flights long before anyone else was brought food. A couple of times this caused a great deal of concern amongst the less seasoned travellers seated nearby. Our scumptuous meal cost about $3 a piece. I would be lucky to find a comparable meal in Los Angeles for four or five times that price.
Spent the rest of the afternoon in Q&A sessions with Alex and number of the DTP and DPI staff. Picked up some new tricks for making selections in Photoshop. Calculations are a wonderful thing. Tony came by after the Q&A session for some one-on-one with Alex. They went over a great deal of 3D while picking the Star Wars Episode I trailer apart shot by shot.