Blitz welcomed Simon Brockwell to its team at the beginning of August as a full-time lighting designer. He has a wealth of experience as a freelance engineer, having graduated from Rose Bruford. Brockwell is developing Blitz's lighting design and project management offering so it can offer a more bespoke service to both direct clients and freelance designers. As a trained operator, he is experienced with a range of lighting consoles and media servers, and is helping Blitz further integrate its video and lighting departments.
To enhance the pre-production and visualisation offering, Blitz has installed a new WYSIWYG studio; an industry standard solution which enables full visualisation of lighting installations via an on-screen simulation, controlled by actual lighting consoles.
As part of this transformation, Blitz is taking delivery of a significant amount of additional lighting equipment. The focus has been on purchasing the best of the new LED products that are now available which provide a number of critical advantages for typical corporate events. Fixtures were chosen for their low power consumption, reliability, high brightness, fantastic colour uniformity and small form factor. In addition Blitz has increased the console offering to include the Avolites Tiger Touch and added a number of wireless DMX and Ethernet nodes.
(Jim Evans)
