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Staging Design

The video monolith is the size of a small apratment building, and it rotates and splits open on Beyonce's Formation tour.

Beyonce’s Video Monolith: A Collaborative Achievement

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 Polartec Big Air event in Boston's Fenway Park. Photo courtesy U.S. Snowboarding/USSA

Extreme Home Run: A Snow Ramp Rises Above Fenway’s Green Monster

It was hard to accurately envision the incredible sight of a ski ramp rising up out of Fenway Park when, on a beautiful sunny fall day in September, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), along with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Fenway Sports Management (FSM), announced that the beloved ballpark would host a big air snowboarding and freeskiing U.S. Grand Prix tour event. However, in mid-February, it quickly captured the attention of Bostonians when in the bitter cold the massive freestanding Big Air snow ramp soared to three times the height of the walls of Fenway’s Green Monster.

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The eight ModTruss stages were set up over a two-week period.

US Open Gets Flexible Staging Support

Filmwerks Turns to ModTruss for Broadcast Staging Solution

For the eighth consecutive year, the ModTruss product line has been selected for stage construction at the US Open Tennis Championship. This year, eight broadcast stages were built for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) using ModTruss’ Truss Series and its components. ModTruss continues to be the US Open’s product of choice for broadcast staging due to unique and challenging set positions as a result of spatial restrictions.

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