Home Cinema Design Workshop

This two-day course will introduce and explore the formal skills required to design dedicated home cinemas and media rooms.

Using engineering calculations, the course teaches the use of world-recognised standards and recommended practices. Starting with assessing client needs and progressing on to real-world design, students will cover the engineering principles involved in high-performance design. Included in the learning provided by this course is the science and calculations required to create a complete design.

Attendees will study the theory of cinema in detail, and undertake a design exercise for both audio, video, and other associated factors including data, heat, and lighting.

During day two of the course, students will take part in an interactive workshop to design a cinema from a real client brief including a peer-reviewed design assessment.

In-Person Course Dates:

Monday 4th March - Tuesday 5th March

Course Location:

CEDIA Training, Unit 2 Phoenix Park, St Neots, PE19 8EP

This workshop is ideal for:

- Smart Home technicians adding Home Cinema & Media room to their service offering.
- Home cinema professionals and designers looking to formalise home cinema and design knowledge.
- Experienced smart home technicians moving into a designer role.
- CEDIA Awards entrants needing to understand documentation requirements.
- CEDIA Outreach Instructors looking to deliver the “Designing Home Cinema and Media Rooms” CPD.

Key skills you will learn:

- Client needs assessment.
- Following home cinema design recommended practice.
- Audio & video performance calculations.
- Understanding equipment specifications.
- Recognising and eliminating performance problems at the design stage.
- Producing formal design documentation.

Member Pricing	Non-Member Pricing
£349 + VAT	£499 + VAT

Geoff Meads

Owner

Presto Web Design

About Geoff: With over 30 years of experience in AV, Geoff is one of the most skilled instructors in the industry. He holds all CEDIA certifications, ISF, HAA and Microsoft accreditations and is a specialist in Audio / Video and IP networking. He’s been teaching in AV for nearly twenty years, in both the UK and overseas. To date, he has led classes on six continents.

Geoff’s expertise is called upon for CEDIA awards judging, where he has served as Technical Judge for the last thirteen years, and as Chairman of the awards judging committee for the last seven.

Having started as a technical marketing apprentice with Dutch giant Philips, he went on to work in recording studios as an engineer before landing at AV manufacturer Arcam in the mid 1990s. While there he worked in technical training, brand management and export sales. He managed the US and Canadian markets at the time of the home cinema market’s birth and contributed heavily to Arcam’s product strategy.

In the mid 2000’s he decided to further his knowledge and embarked on a diploma in website development. Completing this in 2009 he started a website development business (prestoav.com) building websites and web-based applications, predominantly for AV and smart home companies. Today, Presto is a successful website builder, with clients such as Monitor Audio, Trinnov, Grahams and Visualization.