The diverse projects include a major radio station's fifteenth anniversary celebration event in Moscow's Red Square, a music TV awards show, a leading film awards event, and a national ball to acknowledge the country's best students.
ArtStage general producer, Alexey Spaskov, sourced the Color Web at the Prolight&Sound show when he was looking for a cost-effective, flexible LED visual effects system capable of dressing large stage scenic areas of TV shows, concerts and events.
Manufactured by Artistic Licence, the Color Web's lightweight design was a major factor in Spaskov supplying it for the set of Muz TV, Russia's annual music TV awards show. Held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, the Color Web provided a large curved video screen at the centre of the main stage design, which was lowered between performances to allow the smooth changeover of artists, and used to display various visual effects.
Spaskov commented: "The Color Web is especially suited to large scale displays in stadiums. On such projects there are always technical complexities installing standard LED screens more than 48m² in size. The Color Web's light weight and low wind resistance solves these problems, enabling a video display up to 600m² in size."
Similarly, the Color Web's semi-transparency was central to the set design for Kinotavr, Russia's largest national film awards event, which celebrated 100 years of home-grown cinema this year. The Color Web was configured to hang above and either side of a large conventional LED screen centre stage, and double hung in two separate layers to facilitate a very smooth transition of visual elements.
Spaskov adds: "A.C. Lighting provides very professional support, ensuring necessary technical consultations occur very quickly and in full Russian language, saving us lots of time and escaping communication problems. I look forward to working with them to create many more unique shows."
(Jim Evans)
