"The Perils Of Inaugural Production "
By: Jeff Studley
When the lead photo on the Washington Post Website is a picture of a man in a van outside the White House-threatening to blow himself up, it means downtown D.C. is at a standstill. When the photo was shot by your staging company's account executive visiting the installation of the Inaugural Parade route sound system, it means your schedule is at a standstill!
Planning for the unexpected is par for the course when working in Washington, D.C.. One never knows if a motorcade will delay your deliveries or official business will pre-empt your client's venue. But when the job is for the government, especially if it's Presidential, the question is what, not if, something will change. We had anticipated that the weather might not cooperate--it didn't. It seems that every four years the usually mild D.C. winters turn really cold for that one week around January 20th. We anticipated that in the first post 9/11 Inauguration security might be a nightmare--it was...
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