Calgary, May 2026 — A Montreal-based company needed to keep producing podcast content while exhibiting at a Calgary trade show. The venue was an aircraft hangar. They already had a permanent studio back home, and the content had to match it.
We installed a full green-screen broadcast studio inside their booth. Six sessions were recorded over the course of the show.
The recording was the deliverable. The crowd was the bonus.
The challenge
The client had already solved podcasting at home — a permanent in-house studio in Montreal and a content routine that worked.
The problem was the venue.
An aircraft hangar is close to a worst-case environment for audio and video. High ceilings. Hard reflective surfaces. Ambient noise from HVAC, crowds and equipment. Uncontrolled overhead lighting. No acoustic treatment, no rigging infrastructure, no studio power.
On top of that: six sessions were already scheduled with guests, booth space was finite, and the footage had to sit alongside what they produce in Montreal without a visible quality drop.
The real question was whether in-house studio quality was achievable from a temporary booth inside a metal building.
What we built
A complete portable broadcast set, installed in the booth.
Set and backdrop
- Full green-screen cyclorama, floor to ceiling, allowing any background to be composited in post
- Three upholstered armchairs with side tables, arranged as a conversational set rather than a stage
- Defined studio floor with red carpet run
Audio
- Multiple Rode boom-arm microphones, mounted overhead on truss and stands to keep the frame clean
- 24-channel digital mixing console, road-cased
- Multi-track recording so every speaker could be isolated and balanced independently in post — essential in a hangar
Lighting
- Multiple LED panels on stands plus soft key lighting
- Overhead lighting truss spanning the set
- Even, controlled illumination across the green screen — the hardest problem on the job, and the one that determines whether a chroma key holds up
Camera
- Professional camera on fluid-head tripod with external monitor
- Secondary camera position
- Live monitoring so the client could see exactly what was being captured
Crew
- Full setup, operation and teardown handled by our team
- The client’s people walked in and sat down
The timeline
| Tuesday | Load-in and installation — roughly two hours from empty booth to a working broadcast set |
| Wednesday | Show day. Six sessions recorded, plus attendee interviews between sessions |
| After | Teardown handled by our crew |
Two hours from an empty trade show booth to a functioning broadcast studio. That number is the whole argument for hiring a live-event AV firm rather than a studio operator.
The green screen did something we didn’t plan for
The green screen was specified for a production reason. It let the client drop in any background in post, so footage shot in a Calgary hangar could carry their own branded environment — visually consistent with everything they shoot in Montreal.
Then it did something else.
A wall of bright green, floor to ceiling, lit under professional panels, is the most visible object on a trade show floor. In a hangar full of muted booth graphics, it was a beacon. Attendees walked over specifically to find out what was going on.
The client worked the opportunity. Between their scheduled sessions, they invited passersby to sit in the chair, face the camera and answer a few light business questions. People stopped. People queued. The crowd itself became part of the draw — a booth with a crowd pulls more crowd.
That footage became social media content the client used well after the show ended.
One booth doing three jobs at once: content production, lead capture, and booth traffic.
Why a hangar is harder than it looks
| The problem | How we handled it |
|---|---|
| Hard surfaces, long reverb | Close-mic’d Rode boom arms, multi-track isolation, mic placement above and outside frame |
| Ambient noise — HVAC, crowds, PA | Directional microphones with individual channel control on a 24-channel desk |
| Uneven overhead lighting | Full LED panel array and overhead truss to override ambient light and evenly light the screen |
| Green screen keying under mixed light | Even screen illumination and careful subject separation from the backdrop |
| No infrastructure | Self-contained road-cased kit — own truss, own stands, own cable management |
Recording two people in a treated room is straightforward. Doing it inside a metal building, on a trade show floor, on a schedule, with an audience watching, is a live-event production problem.
Canadian View Corp has been solving live-event production problems since 2004.
What this demonstrates
Full mobile deployment. A complete broadcast studio, anywhere — including venues with no infrastructure at all.
Green screen on location. Branded or virtual backgrounds outside a fixed studio, so your visual identity travels with you.
Broadcast audio in hostile acoustics. Hangars, exhibition halls, boardrooms, lobbies.
Live event discipline. Six scheduled sessions, hit on time, with a crowd present.
Extending an existing content operation. This client wasn’t new to podcasting. They had their own studio and knew exactly what good looked like. They brought us in because the venue was the hard part.
Thinking about your next event?
Canadian View Corp has delivered corporate audio-visual production since 2004, with offices in Calgary and Vancouver, serving clients across Western Canada.
We bring mobile podcast recording to your office, boardroom or trade show booth, host sessions at our Calgary-area studio, and install permanent podcast studios at client sites.
Book a consultation or call 403-452-1116