The final idea:

After making our first site visit previous to the event date, it was obviously apparent the roof at the airport would need a rigging system and scissor lift  in order to achieve a roof installation. We suggested helium balloons with small bubbles attached to the strings which would be a more effective "ceiling" installation given the height of the ceiling at the VIP event.. 

The original concept in our formal proposal was 3x 2.3x2.3m framed balloon arches to highlight the arrival and departure gates as well as the entrance gate to the VIP event. We aligned our proposal with the original brief’s requests of gold, green, black and white (to represent Australia and New Zealand’s country colors). However the idea of this was too multicoloured so we reverted back to the essence of the brief which was ‘bursting the bubble’ so we finalised the concept with transparent balloons resembling the effect of soap bubbles and focused our attention to the VIP event. 

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In conclusion: 

• 30x 3' Jumbo balloons arranged at various heights of 2m, 3m and 5m. To create an extra 'bubble' touch, small 5" transparent balloons were attached to the string. 

• x20 16" medium sized balloons were also arranged in collaboration with the jumbo balloons to create variation. These also varied in heights of 2m, 3m and 5m. 

• In addition to the main feature of 'bursting the bubble' where Jacinda Adern would be doing her public press release, we styled each bird cage bar leaner (20x total) with the standard balloon size of 12" accompanied with eucalyptus botanical arrangements made by Sarah from Horrobin and Hodge. The Bird cage leaners were distributed around the VIP space underneath the Central Dome installed and designed by Steve Sander from Grouce Lighting.