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AV rental & production atSoutheastern Louisiana University
Home campus for our shop, Southeastern Louisiana University is a room we know from the loading dock to the last row of the University Center. We produce commencements, academic symposiums, donor events and student productions — athletic banquets in the Student Union, concerts and ceremonies in the arena, and outdoor programs on the quad — with crews who are minutes away and available same-day when a program changes.
- Hammond, LA
- Programs up to 6,000 guests
Prefer to talk it through? Call 504-837-1527.
What we know about this room
Production planning built around Southeastern Louisiana University
- University Center arena and theater production
- Commencement IMAG and distributed audio
- Donor gala and athletic banquet packages
- On-site crew minutes from campus
Planning an event at Southeastern Louisiana University
Abstract Productions supplies audio visual equipment rental and full event production for commencements, lecture series, symposiums, athletic banquets, donor events and student productions at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA. Every quote starts the same way: what the room has to do, how many people are in it, and what the run of show asks of the stage. From there we spec sound, lighting, video, staging and drape as one package instead of six separate rentals that have to be reconciled on site.
Rooms at this scale are won or lost on coverage. For programs approaching 6,000 guests we plan audio as a system rather than a pair of speakers — mains plus delays or fills so the back of the room hears the same mix as the front — and we size video for the furthest seat instead of the nearest one. Lighting is specified for camera first, because at arena and hall scale almost everything ends up on a screen or in a recording.
Load-in, power and access in Hammond
Campus events come with their own rules. We coordinate with facilities and campus scheduling at Southeastern Louisiana University on access, parking and the academic calendar, plan ADA seating and accessible routes around cable paths, and confirm whether the room's house system is available or whether we bring our own. Commencements, lecture series and athletic banquets get a walk-through before show day so nothing is discovered at 6am.
Gear ships from our warehouse at 16101 Lamonte Drive, Hammond, LA 70403, so a truck reaches most Hammond venues in well under a couple of hours, and a second run for a forgotten cable or a late addition is a phone call rather than a crisis.
What a package for Southeastern Louisiana University usually includes
A typical build here covers a sound system sized to the room with wireless microphones for the podium and any panel, stage wash and podium key lighting plus uplighting in your colors, projection or an LED wall for content, a stage or riser with skirting and safe access, and pipe and drape to mask whatever the room should not show. You can also rent individual pieces — a PA system, a projector and screen, a set of uplights, a run of drape — if you only need to fill a gap.
Delivery, setup, line check and strike are part of every rental, and technicians are quoted as their own line so you can see exactly what labor costs. The tech who preps the rack in the shop is the one who runs your show, which is the main reason problems get caught in rehearsal instead of during the program.
Booking, lead times and quotes
Two to three weeks is a comfortable lead time for a standard package at Southeastern Louisiana University; conference weeks, festival season, Mardi Gras and graduation weekends move faster, and larger builds with rigging or custom scenic want longer. We can usually turn around a written, itemized quote the same day once we have your date, headcount and run of show.
Call 504-837-1527 or 877-597-2595, or email sales@abstractproductions.net, and tell us the room and the date. If it helps, download the one-pager above and pass it to your venue contact or planning committee.
Typical production packages
Starting points for events at Southeastern Louisiana University
Every quote is built for your run of show — these are the packages we most often deploy in this room.
Commencement & Convocation
Ceremonies indoors or on the field
- Distributed PA covering graduates and guests
- Podium and processional microphones
- IMAG cameras with LED wall or projection
- Assisted listening and press feed
- Weather-rated power and cable protection
Lecture, Symposium & Panel
Clear speech, clean capture
- Lectern and panel table microphones
- Audience Q&A mics
- Projection with confidence monitor
- Program recording and streaming feed
Campus Banquet & Student Production
Athletic banquets, showcases and formals
- PA, DJ patch and playback
- LED uplighting and stage wash
- Staging, risers and skirting
- Backdrop drapery and scenic panels
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Work from rooms like this one
Case study
Spring commencement for 4,500 guests
A two-ceremony spring commencement in the University Center, with processional audio, IMAG for the upper seating and a weather contingency for an outdoor overflow feed.
Timeline
T-4 weeks
Arena site survey, rigging plot and power order approved with facility operations
T-2 days
Stage decks, ADA platforms and graduate seating installed
T-1 day
Audio tuned, delay towers timed and LED wall assembled and tested
Ceremony day, 5am
Final focus, sound check and press mult set for both colleges
Same evening
Strike and arena floor cleared for the next morning's class
Equipment deployed
- Distributed PA with timed delay towers
- Processional and lectern microphones
- Two-camera IMAG to a 16' LED wall
- Generator-fed power distro and cable ramps
- Assisted listening and press feed
Every name was intelligible from the upper deck, both ceremonies ran on schedule, and the office booked the same package for the fall ceremony.
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Producing at Southeastern Louisiana University?
Send us the date and your run of show. We will spec the audio, lighting, video and staging package that fits the room and get you a written quote.