Turkcell Technology Summit 2019

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This event is the most significant Technology Summit of Turkey and has hosted important names from the fields of technology/arts/philosophy, etc. as both guests and speakers since 2010.

Technology Summit is an organization by the digital operator Turkcell and it continues to be an important platform where future theories, technological innovations, research and personal success stories are shared with approximately 10,000 people each year.

Stage Design

BİŞEYLER has been tasked with preparing the stage design, opening performance, and visual content of the event for the past three years. This year we focused on the event’s own story in all designs.

Since the inherent story of the Technology Summit was to be told, all speakers and performances needed to make one feel like a part of the stage.

Therefore, we set off with the idea of a spatial stage design. The desired depth was provided with the usage of a 3 tier podium and angled led screens. The stage design was implemented with a total of 480 square meters of LED. The main performance artist of the opening story is a single individual, so we placed a moving walkway mechanism on the 3rd tier of the podium. This made it possible to access the entire 24 meters of the stage; allowing us to journey to the center of the story instead of focusing the performance on a single center.

Opening Performance

The concept of the 2019 Live Performance focused on the event’s own stories from the significant speeches of the past, technology and focused on social responsibility. It discussed merging through people’s differences. This constituted the first part of the performance. During the second part, the LED panels opened up a new stage surface and an interactive performance was created using scrim paper and motion tracking. The content of the third part is related to the brand's own services and services. The total 7-minute experience combined an inspiring narrative, an unusual indoor stage, and choreography with audio-visual storytelling.

PART I

Style Frames

PART II

The LED middle section, consisting of a one-piece area of 140 square meters,

was opened to both sides at the end of part one, using a specially constructed system - revealing the area

with pepper scrim curtain for the second part of the performance.

PART III

Following the interactive dance performance in this part, the stage was closed once more to allow for

the 3rd part, where the brand’s services were the focal point - thus completing the opening performance.

Directors: Ece Okuyucu & Gökhan Okuyucu
Story: Ece Okuyucu
Stage Design: Gökhan Okuyucu
Visual Creative Director: Tiber Ergür
Look Development & CG Artist: Muhammet Altun
UI & Title Design: Efe Karaşahin
2D Animation: Barkın Mıyık

Part 3 Design & Animation: Can Küngör
Choreographer: Aslı Öztürk
Performer: Ezgi Yaren Karademir
Cast Agency: Mayadroom Ajans
Project Director: Alican Yılmaz
Stage Manager: Bengi Başak Şahan

Music and Sound Design: Jacob Thomas Czech (Prozac Studio)
Voice Over Agency: Gül Istıranca Seslendirme
Voice Over: Melda Gür

Documentation: Cansu Turan
Photography: Ömer Sedat Yenidoğan
Client: Turkcell