NAB visitors will see things through a different perspective when they enter booth C6339, as CHAUVET Professional and its sister brand Kino Flo showcase products that create full immersion through the frame of a camera’s eye, all while operating in silence.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Showcases Camera’s Eye Immersion at NAB
Terry Lowe, president of Timeless Communications, founder of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE Magazines and co-founder of the Parnelli Awards, has announced that the program to the upcoming Parnelli Awards can be seen online. No, the winners of more than two dozen categories will not be divulged, but you can check out all the nominees for this year’s awards, including Lighting Designer of the Year, Lighting Company of the Year, Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year, the Indispensable Technology categories and more. The program also features more information on the history of the two-decade-plus awards program along with profiles of this year’s honorees for career achievement – Roy Lamb (Lifetime Achievement), Keny Whitright (Visionary) and Marty Garcia (Audio Innovator).
Read More »For LD Andrew Bridge, the final April 16 production of Broadway’s “The Phantom of the Opera” after a 35-year run was particularly poignant. “The opulence and the way it is choreographed on stage, the scene changes and all that, we will miss that. There aren’t many shows that can do that now. We have something like 150 people working each performance. You can’t do Broadway shows today with that size crew, cast and a 27-piece orchestra, it’s just not viable. So, I think we’ll all miss the opulence of that kind of Broadway show.”
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If you are out at the NAMM Show, be sure to stop by and join us for the ProProduction Session at NAMM, The Top Teams Behind the Top Tours. This session takes place on Friday, April 14 at – Level 2, 202B.Read More »PLSN/FOH Offer ProProduction Session at NAMM 2023
One Call, One Vendor, One Team.
360 Festivals has brought together two of the nation’s top event production companies—Special Event Services (SES) and Music Matters Productions (MMP)—to provide a full spectrum of event production services with an extra emphasis on the client experience.
The process is simple: One call gets our clients access to our team of seasoned festival production professionals and a complete list of festival production services. For us, it means the chance to do more of what we love with expanded creativity and bigger production value. Here’s their 2022 video real:
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PLSN Editor Michael S. Eddy covers some of the April 2023 issue’s highlights, including the epic 35-year run for Broadway’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” this month’s virtual production-focused “In the Volume” section, the use of virtual production tools on Blake Shelton’s live concerts and more.
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PLSN’s April 2023 Product News section included details on the following products: hazebase’s THE CLASSIC2 and HIGHPOWER2; Claypaky’s Panify; Creative Conners’ Spotline v2 Hoist; ETC’s Source 4WRD Color II; Eventric’s Master Tour Venue Tech Packs; Harrington Hoists’ EM/SEM Series Mini Electric Chain Hoists; Marshall Electronics’ CV730-BHN and CV730-ND3 Cameras; and Pliant Technologies’ CrewCom CCU-08 Control Unit.
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Lighting Director/Programmer/and Lighting Design Professor, Kevin Lawson takes a look at the Elation Proteus Rayzor Blade, which is fast, bright, and packed with cool features like the SparkLED.. An effect-forward moving strip/strobe hybrid, the Rayzor Blade offers more than beautiful eye candy – with its zoom range, it also serves as a decent linear wash luminaire.
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This month’s Buyers Guide on Video Switchers included details on Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Television Studio HD8 ISO; FOR-A Americas’ HVS-1200 12G/3G/HD Switcher; Grass Valley’s K-Frame Production Switchers; and Panasonic Connect’s KAIROS Video Production Platform.
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PLSN’s April 2023 “In the Volume” section starts off with news about disguise and XPLOR’s new partnership to tackle the skills gap in virtual production in the UK; how EMN Tech is teaming up with AOTO to build a virtual studio in Turkey; how Reno Studios is launching Taiwan’s highest-res virtual production movie studio in Taiwan, and how Vectorworks’ connection to NVIDIA Omniverse expands designers’ opportunities in the Metaverse.
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NantStudios, a virtual production studio based in El Segundo in Los Angeles County, CA, recently announced that the company, through its wholly owned Australian subsidiary, has built two new LED volume/In-Camera VFX stages at Docklands Studios located in Melbourne, Australia, and will operate the world’s largest LED volume.
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PLSN’s April 2023 issue features details on new tools and solutions for virtual production from SUPERVOID (SVX-1 Media Server) and Nationwide Video (12G Fly-Pack).
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