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Video of the Week: PLSN Editor’s Note (July 2014 Issue)

Ultima Studios Gear Up For African Reality Shows With PR Lighting

TV production company Ultima Studios is responsible for producing it’s own original content including two reality shows, MTN Project Fame West Africa and a franchise of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. As a premium media production organization they rely on their own production inventory to service their studio work — and this includes nearly 50 discharge and LED moving heads from PR Lighting.

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2014 Hometown Hero Nominations

2014 Hometown Hero Nominations: A Sneak Peak

LAS VEGAS — Earlier this month, PLSN’s newsletter called for nominations for regional lighting production companies worthy of receiving the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year. PLSN readers responded almost instantly, with a steady influx of names including a variety of well-known companies along with some others who are being nominated for the Hometown Hero award for the first time.

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Temple Media Boosts Tall Ships With PR Lighting Products

PR Lighting and Temple Media teamed up to provide all staging and technical infrastructure for the SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta Constanta 2014. The lighting design incorporated PR Lighting’s XR 200 Beam and XLED 1037 wash lights. “The artists’ production teams were delighted by our choice of lights — particularly the XR 200 Beams,” said Dan Chiorcioiu. “In fact they told us these beams were so bright and powerful that they could be seen way out at sea, like a light from a lighthouse.”

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‘Bet on Your Baby’ Bets on Team Imagination and 4Wall LA

LOS ANGELES – Team Imagination paired with 4Wall Los Angeles to provide lighting for ABC’s Bet on Your Baby. “One thing we wanted to focus on with a show like this was creating an environment that was both kid-friendly and safe,” said LD Michael Veerkamp.  “That led to us using a large amount of LED fixtures to keep everyone cool and comfortable.”

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Painting With Light Illuminates the Spektakel Musical

MECHELEN, Belgium – Painting With Light provided the lighting for Spektakel Musical, which commemorates the death and destruction of the First World War which started a century ago in 1914. Virtual wing space with light curtains were created to conceal mobile scenery trucks offstage. The same concept is used to mask off different depths along the performance space as the location of the action shifts up and down the hall. There is a left and right vertical light curtain and four horizontal ones made up from a total of 465 Vari*Lite V*L5s and 28 bars of four ACLs.

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The Prodigy at Sonisphere Lit with HSL-supplied Gear

STEVENAGE, U.K. – Lighting rental company HSL supplied an extensive lighting package – including 140 new Philips Nitro LED strobes along with 60 Robe LEDBeam 100s – for the Prodigy at Sonisphere 2014, which was held in Knebworth Park here this year. The lighting rig, which includes  complements the “aircraft hangar” look created by show designer Andy Hurst. He also deployed that look for the band’s New Years Eve show at London’s O2 Arena earlier this year.

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