Heathrow Airport 80th Celebration: QLab Quiz Engine and Motion Graphics
Heathrow's 80th celebration needed more than a few slides and a polite round of applause. I built the visual and show-control layer: an opening sting to give the room a proper start, and a QLab quiz engine with right/wrong answer states, shuffle logic and prize-reveal sequences. It ran cleanly, without rogue cues or operator panic.
80th
Celebration
QLab
Quiz engine
Motion
Graphics package
THE BRIEF
A live quiz sounds simple until you have to run it in front of a room, under brand pressure, with a host waiting for the screen to do the right thing.
The brief needed three things to happen at once:
The show had to feel polished and celebratory, not like someone had dressed up a PowerPoint.
The quiz logic had to support right answers, wrong answers, shuffled questions and prize moments without rebuilding the show file on the day.
The operator needed a cue stack they could trust at speed, because a quiz does not pause politely while someone hunts for the correct button.
That is where QLab either becomes your best friend or your tiny digital goblin. The job was to make it the first one.
THE APPROACH
I designed the motion graphics and built the QLab show-control system.
I was not just making graphics. I was building the part of the show that the host, operator and audience all depended on in real time.
The opening sting was built to make the celebration feel like a proper show from the first beat. It gave the room a clean visual start, set the tone and handed neatly into the live format.
The animation was designed for playback, not for a design reel. That means timing, readability and technical delivery mattered as much as the look: correct export settings, clean playback, and no fiddly media that would turn into smoke during tech.
The quiz engine sat in QLab as a structured playback stack, not a messy pile of cues.
The important bit was not just what the cue stack could do. It was how safe it felt to operate. A live show file should help the person in the chair, not dare them to press the wrong thing.
The stack was tested end to end and handed over in an operator-ready state. That means sensible naming, clear grouping and a cue flow that made sense under pressure.
No mystery buttons. No buried logic. No little trapdoors waiting for showtime.
DELIVERABLES
Project imagery
Live production on site
Stage and screen content
Broadcast and stream setup
Behind the scenesWHAT IT PROVES
The Heathrow 80th quiz section ran cleanly. The opening sting set the room up, the quiz moved at the pace of the host, and the prize reveals landed when they were supposed to land.
Most importantly, the cue stack behaved. No rogue cue firing. No frantic rebuild. No awkward moment where the screen exposed the machinery. The audience saw a show, which is the whole point.
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