LONDON – The Imperial War Museum in London held a preview launch event unveiling its newly refurbished interior galleries to a select crowd. For the event, White Light provided full production solutions including staging, draping, lighting, haze, A/V screens and the event crew to make it all work.
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XL Video supplied a custom video solution and crew for Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways tour. The set included an impressive 22.8 metre wide by 10.8 metre high upstage scenic LED wall made up from XL’s Pixled F-12 product. There were also side screens for IMAG made from Radiant MC-7T. Three Barco 40K HD projectors were used to beam material onto a massive drape, and content was programmed and run via a Catalyst media server. The projection was fed via a d3 media server system.
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LONDON – Bringing dazzle to one of London’s most high-profile venues, Storm Events used Chauvet’s EPIX 2.0 to achieve a glittering pixel-mapping effect. “We joined all of the EPIX units end-to-end in twos, and spaced them at 250mm across the set,” said Production Director Andy White, noting that a total of 80 strips and bars were used. “Our design alternated strips and bars back and forth with the strips set slightly higher than the bars to create a 2.3m high continuous image. Using Kling-Net we were able to map the entire image in about 30 minutes.”
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MILAN, Italy – Tracing Milan’s history back to the Belle Époque, the “Castello di Carta” (Paper Castle) project transformed the Sforza Castle with lights, music and projected images from the “Achille Bertarelli” print collection. Twenty-three Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s were used to illuminate the façades by shaping light beams and projecting multiple dynamically transforming images and geometric shapes.
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A collaboration between Brilliant Stages, Robbie Williams and Stufish resulted in a lavish and multi-layered stage that transforms from an Art-Deco hotel to a 20’s style club and a luxurious ocean liner, and is surrounded by a massive, curved Austrian drape, all of which set the tone for Williams’ sumptuous Swing Era extravaganza and big band sounds.
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MANCHESTER, TN – Another Bonnaroo has come and gone and Bandit Lites played a key role in one of the season’s premier festivals. Bandit chair Michael T. Strickland stated “Bandit Lites is very proud to be part of the phenomenal production team that Lambda Productions assembles every year. The entire event is first class and run like a well-oiled machine. We look forward to being part of this world class event for years to come”.
Read More »Blackmagic Design’s new ATEM Switchers Update 6.0 adds support for controlling cameras from ATEM production switchers via the program feed to the camera. ATEM Camera Control is compatible with the new Blackmagic Studio Cameras running software v1.8.2 or later and can be controlled via a regular CCU style of control.
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BELARUS – LD Kirell Zelenko chose Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE fixture as a key fixture in his lighting design for the Belarusian TV Awards. A variety of of Clay Paky fixtures were used for the ceremony, including 24 x A.leda B-EYE K20, 12 x A.leda Wash K10, 24 x Sharpy, 20 x Sharpy Wash 330 and 16 x Alpha Spot HPE 1500.
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PILTON, U.K. — Avolites and Avolites Media provided an extensive array of equipment for this year’s Glastonbury Festival, supporting three headline acts on the main stages as well as numerous other acts on secondary stages.
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GRIMSTAD, Norway – Against the dramatic backdrop of the Kilden-Fjæreheia quarry in Grimstad, Pink Floyd tribute band Puls impressed audiences with a projection-mapped backdrop created with AV Stumpfl’s Wings AV multi-image control technology.
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GHoST (Graphic Hologram / Scalable Theater) Scalable Holographic Displays from AV Concepts make use of a fully integrated three-dimensional projection platform that combines 3D-like imagery with actual objects to create a virtual reality aspect to visual displays, with highly flexible sizing options.
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Astera LED Technology’s AsteraApp, available as a free download from the Google Play Store, can be installed on any Bluetooth-enabled Android device (optimized for Android phones and 7-inch tablets). Users should link their Android device to an AsteraBox to initiate control. Acting as the middleman, the AsteraBox receives commands from the app (using Bluetooth), and these commands are processed inside the AsteraBox then sent to all Astera lights within a 300m range.
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