Category openers, reveals, and a running order that moves.
VTs, walk-ons, winner reveals and a hard finish measured in seconds. Twenty-two categories, a VT per winner, presenters arriving from a drinks reception and a broadcast window that will not wait. EventBlok holds the whole running order as one structure so a late acceptance speech does not cost you the finale.
- 22
- categories, one orderDescribes how EventBlok works — not a measured statistic.
- 1
- VT per winnerDescribes how EventBlok works — not a measured statistic.
- 0
- reveals published earlyDescribes how EventBlok works — not a measured statistic.
- 23:00
- hard finish, heldDescribes how EventBlok works — not a measured statistic.
An awards show is the most timing-sensitive event there is. Every category is a mini-show — opener, nominees, reveal, walk-up, speech, exit — and each one can run long in a way the next one has to absorb.
Opener, nominees, reveal, walk-up, speech, exit. Twenty-two times.
Each category carries its own VT, graphics, music and lighting states as cues. Build one properly and the rest are a duplicate with different content.
- ✓Cue-level detail per category
- ✓VT, GFX, LX and music in department views
- ✓Duplicate a category and change the content
Three speeches over by ninety seconds each is your finale.
Durations rather than fixed times, so the drift accumulates visibly and the distance to the hard finish is a number the producer can act on at category eight rather than category nineteen.
- ✓Planned, actual and projected at once
- ✓Hard broadcast windows and curfews locked
- ✓The overrun shows its consequence immediately
Winners in the production record, not the public programme.
The same session carries the running order the crew needs and the programme the room reads. Production detail never reaches the published view.
- ✓Production detail hidden from the public portal
- ✓Roles decide who sees the sensitive fields
- ✓Presenters briefed without the reveal
You are eleven minutes over with three categories left.
The number is already thereOn the roadmap
Not a guess from the producer with a stopwatch. The projection has been visible since the drift started building.
09:00Opening keynoteMainstage · Hall AConfirmed10:30A field guide to honest interfacesCraft · Studio 2Confirmed13:30Fireside with regulatorsSystems · Hall ADraft15:00Workshop: writing a run of showCraft · Studio 1The programme itself — every session with its track, room and speaker. Decide what givesOn the roadmap
Cut the interstitial, shorten the link, drop the second VT. Mark it cut and the running order reflows around it.
09:30Opening keynoteAida OkaforLive09:45Panel: honest interfaces3 speakersNext10:15BreakFoyer10:30Payments deep-diveSystems trackVIDEOVT-2AUDIOMic 4LXState 3The running order the crew calls from — one cue live, the next one staged. Nobody is surprisedOn the roadmap
The host’s prompter reflows without losing their place, and the crew see the cut in the view they are already reading.
A host prompter reflowing after a cut without losing position.VOICE-LOCKEDCUE 47.1 · OPENING REMARKS00:00 ELAPSEDGood morning, and welcome to the Fintech Forum. Over the next two days we are going to take apart the payment rail everyone depends on and nobody talks about. Before we start, a word on the schedule: the fireside has moved to thirteen forty-five.142 WPMLOCKEDvoice follow142wpm0:48to next cueCONNECTEDmirrorSPACEpause / resume scroll↑ ↓nudge read positionMOUSE WHEELmanual override, auto re-locksWEBHOOKStream Deck via Companionsurface feed state Stage confidence monitor presenter view live Operator laptop mirror live Stream Deck webhook armed Comfort monitor — FOH mirror live
The awards-specific parts.
Arriving from the bar
On the roadmapTheir category, their time, which wing, and who hands them the envelope.
One per winner
On the roadmapNominee packages attached to the category cue, not tracked in a separate spreadsheet.
Who is where
On the roadmapTable and seating information attached to the space, so the walk-up is not a search.
