Projection and Video sere Integral to the Flexible and Kinetic Design of the Bad Boy Family Reunion Shows
Two nights that were 20 years in the making became part of Hip-Hop music history with Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Family Reunion concerts at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
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Projection mapping specialists DWP Live marked their fifth consecutive year partnering with Barco at the CinemaCon industry party at Caesars Palace known as The Barco Belgian Beer Bar party, which references the projector manufacturer’s HQ location.
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It takes a lot of planning and coordination to realize the designs of some of todays’ biggest concert tours with their massive structures, complex automation and immense video walls. If you are among the supplying production companies on these tours, success is in the details and all about collaboration. A perfect example of this production reality is the incredible four-sided LED video structure, known as the Monolith, on Beyoncé’s Formation world tour. The centerpiece of Es Devlin’s production design for the tour, it is the result of a collaboration between Stageco, Tait and PRG Nocturne.
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The International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA) for the past four years has been produced in New Bedford MA, a city that is heavily enriched with the culture of all things Portuguese, especially its rich music. The live-to-air show covers all genres including rock, country, rap, hip-hop and most importantly traditional Portuguese music.
Birmingham Church Engages Attendees with LED Video Enhancements
Dedicated to working with house of worship leaders and founders, the Association of Relational Churches provides the support, guidance and resources needed for worship communities to take root and grow. As part of their mission, the association hosts semi-annual ARC Conferences at different locale around the country.
ROE Visual is increasingly creating video products that are grabbing the attention of big concert tour designers among others in the live event world. When preparing for the current Jason Aldean “We Were Here” tour, for example, designer Mike Swinford says he “wanted something a little different.” Part of that puzzle was found in creating four LED tile configurations shaped like diamonds, and to make them he used Roe’s Hybrid-15, equal parts LED video display and spotlight, released just last year. They are wowing audiences everywhere, with four configurations flanking the big center video screen.
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San Francisco nightclub 1015 Folsom planned to undergo a massive remodel to commemorate its upcoming 30-year anniversary, which will happen on Oct. 15, 2016. Along with its remarkable staying power, the 20,000-square-foot nightclub is known for hosting big EDM headliners. With so much attention being focused on the San Francisco area during Super Bowl 50 weekend in February, 1015 Folsom Owner Ira Sandler decided to get a jump start on the renovations. He called on Eric Bernstein of Intelligent Lighting Services in Austin, TX to upgrade the club’s lighting and video system with gear from Mega Systems, Inc.
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This year at the NAB show in Las Vegas, Blackmagic Design introduced a new product that no one was really expecting, but that hits an interesting spot in the industry. It’s called the Blackmagic Duplicator 4K, and this product just may have tapped into something pretty hip. It is a recording device that allows you to record SD, HD or Ultra HD content in real time on up to 25 SD cards simultaneously. With live events in mind, you can then distribute or sell the SD cards to customers or audience members right when the event is finished.
Avolites has been in the console game for a long time, but their popularity in the States was never as strong as in Europe. The choice of a console is a very personal matter for any LD, and — full disclosure — for many years, I chose to use consoles other than Avolites because I had a perception that they were difficult to use. The Titan operating system, introduced almost concurrently with an updated line of Avo consoles, however, sought to change all that, and today we’re going to look at their latest offering — the Avolites Arena.
In the last year or so, the industry has seen the advent of the small footprint, hybrid light fixture. Unlike the large model fixtures that can take the place of a wash, spot or beam fixture dependent on their light’s output beam, these smaller lights are not the all-in-one hybrids they claim to be. But as far as functions go, it’s plain to see that Harman’s Martin Lighting excels in areas where others took shortcuts and is hands down the best little moving light in its class right now.
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With the rise in popularity of LED products on the market, it’s practically a given that at some point you will find yourself working with pixel mapping. This can be very easy, especially when the content you intend to use is loaded onto the media server that’s doing the pixel mapping. But what do you do when a client has a content playback device that does not output Art-Net or DMX, does not have a pixel mapping interface, and only outputs a video signal? If you have a media server with a video input card, then you’re in luck! You can use that for another creative purpose beyond simply displaying output from a camera. How? By converting a video signal to DMX values for pixel mapping.
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Memorandum
To: All Lighting Designers
From: Your local spotlight operator
Re: Calling the spotlights at a large arena show
Hi, I’m your local spotlight operator. You might not know my name, but I’d like to request that you please don’t use profane language if things don’t go exactly as planned during your performance. We try our best, honest. We want to make your act shine. So I’d like to take a minute to explain a few things from our side of the intercom line if you got a sec.
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