The City of Paramount in California kickstarted the holiday season at the end of November with the 25th installment of its annual Tree Lighting Celebration.… Read More »Behind the Scenes at the 25th Annual Paramount Tree Lighting
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An in-depth look at how Virtual Production was used in the hit Apple series: ‘Hijack’. VP Producer, Kyle Olson, and Engine Technical Director, Spencer Chase, breakdown how ICVFX was used in a budget-conscious way to achieve the majority of shots in the series.
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For the Hans Zimmer Live tour, John Featherstone (show designer/co-founder Lightswitch), Hailey Featherstone (lighting director) and Chris Herman (lighting programmer) create the concert lighting looks driven by the narratives of the various Hans Zimmer scores. The range of looks and emotions conveyed through the lighting support the dynamic and iconic music. EventElevator visited the team at Festhalle Frankfurt in Germany during a stop on the tour.
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SPH Engineering proudly announced the results of the 4th International Drone Show Competition, showcasing an impressive array of talent and creativity from participants across 24 countries with 105 applications in 8 diverse categories — the competition demonstrates the growth and innovation in the drone show industry. The results were unveiled in a presentation featuring a collaborative drone show with Sky Elements Drones, that illuminated Las Vegas sky with 400 drones, letting the whole city know about 22 outstanding winners.
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Mumford & Sons’ longtime lighting designer Ed Warren shares a glimpse into his favorite features of the ChamSys MQ500M Stadium console – from live busking to portable programming, skipping through audio cues, creating a dynamic inclusive experience for the audience at St. Augustine’s Sing Out Loud Festival.
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Check out this timelapse video of the set construction for A Christmas Carol at the Milwaukee Rep’s historic Pabst Theater. In this video you can watch the stage crew bring the set to life:
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The FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN SILVER LAS VEGAS GRAND PRIX Opening Ceremony took place with a star-studded event on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Created and executive produced by Brian Burke Creative, along with stage architects STUFISH Entertainment Architects and lighting designer Tom Sutherland of DX7, the opening ceremony was the first of its kind for Formula 1. In the grand tradition of Las Vegas spectacles, the opening ceremony kicked off Grand Prix™ weekend with an enormous production. Along with the 20 participating F1 drivers, the show included Andra Day, Bishop Briggs, J Balvin, Journey, Keith Urban, Steve Aoki, Thirty Seconds to Mars, will.i.am, and Kylie Minogue.
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During the 57th Annual CMA Awards on November 8, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN, Kenny Chesney, Mac McAnally, Alan Jackson, and Zac Brown Band paid tribute to Jimmy Buffett. Here are those performances. The CMA Awards, known as Country Music’s Biggest Night™, aired live on ABC and is now available to stream on Hulu.
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The 38th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place on Friday Nov. 3 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. This year’s class of inductees were Performers Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, and The Spinners. Musical Influence inductees were DJ Kool Herc, and Link Wray; and the Musical Excellence Inductees were Chaka Khan, Al Kooper, and Bernie Taupin. Here are a few short highlights and some more details of the production.
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‘Wicked’ is celebrating its 20th anniversary today, having opened at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway October 30, 2003. Directed by Joe Mantello, the show’s incredible design work and production elements have brought Oz to life for 7,718 performances on Broadway. Eugene Lee’s scenery; Susan Hilferty’s costumes; Kenneth Posner’s lighting; and Elaine J. McCarthy’s projections, are as spellbinding today as they were when the Emerald curtain rose two decades ago. In this wonderful series of videos the ‘Wicked’ designers and associates take us inside their stunning work on Broadway’s fourth longest running show.
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New York City’s new Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has been praised for its design since it opened this fall. Lower Manhattan’s dynamic new 129,000 sq.ft. home for the arts has the flexibility to rearrange its three theater spaces such that they can transform into 10 different proportions that collectively reconfigure into more than 60 stage-audience arrangements with capacities ranging from 90 to 950 seats.
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LUMA, founded in 2015 by a street photographer, a film editor and an event planner, expected a crowd of 3,000. Then 30,000 showed up. Every year the crowds have grown as the LUMA festival transforms the New York State city of Binghamton’s buildings into projection mapped art installations. This giant outdoor vibrant and dynamic art gallery includes not only projection mapping but also light installations, and immersive live performance. The 2023 event once more amazed and engaged visitors.
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