FJ-HRN-912

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: Candles and floral table centerpiece

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: Model of the governor’s ball area

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: Map of the governor’s ball area

Governor’s Ball Preview – Sound bite: Cheryl Boone Isaacs (audio not great)
To put this together, they’re the ones with a lot of wonderful ideas, I sit with them, we talk them over, and the purpose is to make sure that whatever the idea is it can actually be processed, and produced and that it can function. (Talks) Well, you start thinking about it right after the last ball. Oh yeah, you do think about it. It is about 8 or 9 months. It takes awhile to make it all come together.

Governor’s Ball Preview – Sound bite: Cheryl Boone Isaacs (color correct)
Well one thing I will say about the Governor’s Ball is that throughout the years, its always evolving, always changing. And this year its just one more. And you know you pay attention to how your guests react and have just the feel of the evening and you pay attention to how you can make it better, special. A little different year in and year out. And this year we’re having this great, great wonderful…I really think it is going to work out great. I really do. It’s an elegant supper party that will allow the people, our guests, to walk around and to mingle and to see their friends. You know some folks haven’t seen each other since they made a movie and some folks haven’t been in the room in a few years so it is a special time and because there is a huge number of guests and a very big space, we work very hard to try to make it cosy and interesting and fun.

Governor’s Ball Preview – Sound bite: Cheryl Boone Isaacs (color correct)
Yes, yes, the guests of the ball are folks who go to many premieres all over the world, fancy events, best restaurants in the world so there is a certain level of elegance and finesse and beauty that we need to bring to our gathering. To our ball. And a combination of Cheyrl Cicetto and the Sequoia production group are truly visionaries in terms of coming up with some wonderfully unique ideas and we all know everyone has great ideas but you have to see if they actually can be accomplished and whether they can actually benefit and serve you for whatever the situation ?, they do this and they do this brilliantly. With the help of Mark’s garden of flowers and many many fabulous artesians to help create the…all of the furniture, the ambiance, the lighting. The lighting is a major situation. Brilliant people she brings them all together to have visual accomplish…Wolfgang of course, the master chef he is and his fabulous team of people, they are really really wonderful. They are wonderful to work with. They bring the most luscious foods, a number of different styles and ways the food will be presented this year. Not just at this assigned seat where some body is going to come and put a plate in front of you, no many different levels and different ways that people will be satiated with the beautiful foods of Wolfgang and his folks. And then the special guest this year is Dave Goz, Jazz saxophone extraordinaire. I think the combination will make it truly extraordinary and different.

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: UPSOUND Wolfgang Puck discussing the meals

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: Oscar chocolate statue

Governor’s Ball Preview – Sound bite: Wolfgang Puck
Well I think the biggest challenge is how are we going to serve every body in a short amount of time. And that is really the challenge at any dinner for that many people. That is why we have 14 kitchens in the dinning room so there won’t be no lines. We are going to have two hundred waiters passing out food. So it might be just a little bit of chicken salad, it might be a potato with cavier, it might be a little bead and goat cheese salad. It might be a little celery apple soup so we going to have all these dishes around in the dinning room so nobody is going to be hungry ever.

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: various food

Governor’s Ball Preview – Sound bite: Cheryl Cecchettl – Producer – Governor’s Ball – Sequoia Productions (Color correct)
Well you know the first you have to do is lay out your city. You have to actually lay it out on paper. This is my city, this is my burgalas, this is the stage. This works, that doesn’t work. Let’s move that here. This is how much seating I want. This is how much void space for people to move around. How many bars, buffets. You have to build the foundation. You have the theme in mind, you start creating the city. You build the walls, you garnish it with the florals and the greenery. You design furniture but you test furniture and make sure that someone in a gown with high heels feels comfortable can sit upright and do all that sort of testing. You make sure coffee tables hold drinks and food service and whatever. You really just take the mission state and who is coming and create the set. Then you have meetings with Wolfgang Puck team and they talk aobut their food service and how they are going to layer it. Then you talk to your team and other players and say what is entertainment, lets break it up. The feeling, we want entry music, do we want the dinner music as we are smuuzing. The transition music as we pick up and then the dancing, the latin hipper at the end. Think martini. To keep the energy high. So you just take all of that and you have to deal with all the vendors. You know who is laying the floor. Who is providing the sound. Who’s gots the lights. Who’s got the lighting design. Etc. etc. etc.

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: Snake River Steak

Governor’s Ball Preview –B-roll: Wolfgang Puck menu and sushi

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: Deserts

Governor’s Ball Preview – B-roll: Various food and Sterling vineyards bottle