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ChamSys Helps Crt Birsa Balance Demands Lighting Popevka Song Competition

ChamSys Helps Crt Birsa Balance Demands Lighting Popevka Song Competition

There is an almost mystical power to idioms. Like some secret shared within a tightly knit circle of friends, these impossible-to-translate words and phrases endow a language with its distinct character – one that only those immersed in its culture can fully appreciate. “Popevka,” is such a word in Slovenian. A form of music interwoven tightly around this nation’s folk traditions; its deepest meaning evaporates once it’s decoupled from its cultural roots. Lighting Designer, Crt Birsa can’t translate the power of Popevka into words, but he did a brilliant job conveying it in light recently when he lit a TV program of that name using his ChamSys MagicQ MQ80 and a PC Wing, despite having to balance time and deadline issues.Read More »ChamSys Helps Crt Birsa Balance Demands Lighting Popevka Song Competition

Reading Rep is Set for Acclaim with Strand LED Fresnels

“The Strand Acclaim LED Fresnels were an ideal choice. Energy efficient, great optics and excellent color rendering,” says Andrew Stone, managing director of theatre consultancy, Drama by Design. Photo Credit: ©Harry Elletson

Multi-award-winning arts and performance venue, Reading Rep Theatre, has benefited from an energy and space efficient, high impact lighting solution by choosing to invest in a number of the latest Acclaim LED Fresnels from Strand, a Signify entertainment lighting brand. The fixtures were originally specified by theater consultancy, Drama by Design, the company responsible for the entire £1m conversion from Salvation Army Hall to 170 seat, technically adaptable, multi-purpose venue.Read More »Reading Rep is Set for Acclaim with Strand LED Fresnels

Westview Productions Appoints Alison Daughters as New Vice President

Westview Productions, a leading entertainment systems, energy solutions, and immersive technology firm, today announced that Alison Daughters would move to the position of Vice President. In her new role, she will continue to oversee HR, Operations, Marketing, and serve as the manager for the heads of the Sales & Estimating, Projects & Engineering, and Field Service departments.Read More »Westview Productions Appoints Alison Daughters as New Vice President

UNCSA Stage Management Program Director Jamie Call Blankinship Receives Excellence in Teaching Award

Jamie Call Blankinship is the is director of the stage management program at UNCSA.

Alumna and longtime University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) faculty member Jamie Call Blankinship has been named recipient of a 2022 University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. Call Blankinship is director of the stage management program in the School of Design and Production (D&P) at UNCSA.Read More »UNCSA Stage Management Program Director Jamie Call Blankinship Receives Excellence in Teaching Award

For TV Lighting, Edging Away from 3,200K

For the annual NFL Honors, broadcast from YouTube Theater at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 10, PLSN’s Michael Eddy asked LD Jon Kusner about balancing the lighting with the video screens. “It’s now getting easier and easier to get away from 3,200K, which was always not ideal for the screens department,” Kusner noted. “Being in the color space closer to 5,600K makes the screens look better. We were at 4,200K, that was our white light on this show. I like being at 4,200K because the color spectrum of reds and blues, from a lighting perspective, land pretty well there if you go either direction.”

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