A carefully selected assortment of video clips, graphics and animations are critical to the show. Off the Wall's video designer and manager Paul Barker has produced a full show's worth of material.
The DS 5000 DT is being looked after by LD Paddy Sollitt and his crew, and Zig Zag is also supplying all of the lighting equipment and lasers. In addition to projecting the video (stored on a separate video machine with VGA signal sent to the DS5000), the DigitalSpot 5000's onboard digital media server is also being utilised to create a host of liquid style effects. All its outputs are being triggered via Sollitt's Avolites Pearl 2004 lighting console.
Sollitt has been working with Off The Wall for the last 18 months and comments, "The DS 5000 has taken us into another dimension of flexibility and creative scope - it's vastly superior to the equivalent video projector". He notes that the fixture also makes "a great lighting and beam effect", and has aroused plenty of interest from local crews.
Off The Wall's sound is mixed by Gerrard Rolf (FOH) and Paul Nichols (monitors) and supplied by Coast To Coast.
(Jim Evans)
