The Midnight Gala
A black-tie fundraiser built around a single rule: the room changes character three times before midnight, and nobody sees it happen.
Mumbai, India 420 guests
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Luxury 30 March 2024
Silver Jubilee Banquet
Six hundred covers served in one seating, with the first and last plate leaving eleven minutes apart.
- 600
- Covers
- 11 min
- First to last plate
- 25
- Years marked
- 84
- Floor team
Creative concept
The idea
the night was built on.
Twenty-five years of a family firm, marked with one seating rather than a rolling buffet — a deliberately harder choice, and a better room for it.
The challenge
Six hundred hot covers from a kitchen rated for four hundred, with a 55-metre walk from pass to the furthest table.
The solution
Two satellite finishing stations inside the room and a floor team of 84 briefed in table blocks with a staggered release.
The execution
First plate down at 20:41, last at 20:52. No course was served over a speech.
Run of show 4 cues
The document
the crew worked from.
Abridged from the working run sheet. Every line was owned by a named person before the doors opened.
- 17:00 Satellite build Two finishing stations built inside the room to cut the 55m walk.
- 20:30 Floor brief 84 staff in table blocks with staggered release timings.
- 20:41 First plate Main course service opens across all blocks.
- 20:52 Last plate Six hundred covers down in eleven minutes.
Film
What we delivered
on camera.
- Same-night edit60 seconds, delivered before midnight
- Full film4 minutes, delivered within ten working days
- Stills640 edited frames, full usage rights
- Crew on siteTwo photographers, one camera operator
Films for client events are shared privately. The photo essay is the public record.
How we cover eventsThe client
After the event.
Everyone told us six hundred in one seating was impossible in that room. It took eleven minutes.
Sanjay Harbour
Managing Partner, Harbour & Co, Harbour & Co
Luxury, 600 guests
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