Adriano Candeloro is a founding director and technology guru at Sightline Productions, serving clients across Australia, New Zealand and further afield with a variety of international work. The Sightline team are all big fans of Astera, having first started hearing about the brand a few years back when the neon lighting look was very popular in Australia.
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4Wall Entertainment played a vital role supporting the production of the feature film ‘Daddio’, written and directed by Christy Hall. 4Wall built a virtual production studio to create a realistic backdrop of New York City streets, recreating a drive in a taxicab where the film takes place. Hall and the 4Wall team explain how this innovative approach enabled an efficient and visually stunning production.
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Chicago-based production company Media Stream Wave used a Blackmagic Design workflow comprised of 40 Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2 cameras, 14 ATEM Constellation 8K live production switchers and more as part of its work for the 2024 Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals, produced by Springboard Productions.
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Even for the most seasoned Roo Vets, this year’s version of the iconic Bonnaroo festival was hot, really hot! Temperatures during the three-day event were consistently in the 90s, sometimes reaching 100, with plenty of humidity and one thunderstorm thrown in. These conditions made the covered This and That Tents welcomed places to cool off.
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Frankfurt set the stage for UEFA EURO 2024’s four weeks of international football fever with a spectacular multimedia show. One of the city’s notable bridges, covered in the colors of the 24 participating nations for the duration of the European Championship, became the centerpiece of the football world. Lighting Designer Thomas Giegerich from bright! used Elation’s lighting solutions to visually bring the concept to life.
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ShowTech Productions – based in Riffa, Bahrain – has recently added to its extensive Robe moving light stock with the purchase of 12 iFORTE LTX luminaires. Currently Robe’s most powerful hard-edged LED moving light, these were delivered by Robe Middle East in Dubai.
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LD Ben Gilbert was called upon to light the 31 city North American leg of LANY’s ‘Beautiful Blur’ tour in support of their fifth album. Not endowed with a great deal of time to do their thing, Gilbert and his team came up with a gem of a design that used a curved truss configuration to engage audience by changing the depth and shape perceptions of the stage and its runway.
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Sixty million pixels of content is being driven to 18 HD projectors and three LED screens as part of an immersive installation at Poland’s Bieszczady Cultural Heritage Center, with tvONE’s Green Hippo Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Servers at the core of the visuals. More than 200GB of animated graphics are being handled by the Boreal+ MK2s in a show designed to educate, inform and entertain.
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PROLIGHTS products were used to illuminate the new exhibition “«Cathars» Toulouse dans la croisade” , curated by the Saint-Raymond Museum in Toulouse. The exhibition explores the events of the crusade against the Albigensians and the issue of Cathar heresy in the 12th century.
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Designer Mikki Kunttu brought Richard Wagner’s epic ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ to a breathtaking conclusion at the Finnish National Opera with the performance of the monumental, nearly six-hour-long ‘Götterdämmerung’ featuring Claypaky Xtylos, the laser-based beam lighting fixture.
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Lighting Designer Ben Cracknell, lighting the Olivier Awards for his 11th year, chose 78 Ayrton Perseo Profile fixtures, provided by White Light, as his work horse fixtures. He wanted to modernize and unify under one fixture type his previously mixed rig, so he took advantage of White Light’s generous stock of Perseo Profiles, having enjoyed using them on previous designs.
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Lighting Designer Andre Beekmans from design studio The Art of Light buckled up for some hardcore techno rave action with legendary band Scooter on their “Thirty Rough & Dirty” tour celebrating 30 years of success, innovation, energy and larging it at the cutting edge of dance music.
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