For the final assessment show of the year, 18 year old BTEC National students Ben Couch and Chris Burnage directed and programmed the lighting and AV on the Eos and Ion, working on discrete software partitions. Both have used lighting control desks before, but found that the additional functionality which ETC's desks offer has made their projects much easier. Couch explains: "The p
The proms concert will be the singer's first major show in three years. It will also be broadcast on Radio 1. The high definition screening is being billed as the largest live music cinematic event of its kind in Europe, and has been put together by BBC Worldwide. The commercial arm of the corporation recently beamed The Last Night of the Proms into cinemas around the world.
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The landmark 300-capacity venue on 25 Swan Street in the Northern Quarter of the city centre dates back some 200 years and has been associated with live music for much of its rich cultural heritage. The name comes from the 1930's when musicians used to perform standing on precarious platforms strapped to the wall.
It has been completely renovated, restored and just reopened by operators Inner City Music with the help of a £4m combined award from the Manchester City Council, Arts Council England and the Lottery Heritage Fund, to transform the venue into a 21st century centre of music with strong community ties.
DBN's Nigel Walker completed the design. An important part of the brief was that they wanted a retro
Deane has worked at the coal face of live events in theatre, music touring, launches, celebrations and corporate shows as both freelance lighting designer and production electrician across Europe and North America. His business experience includes a decade as a company director, building a corporate rental house to become the leading quality brand, and several years with a premium event production house managing the operation and building a full service offer.
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The announcement comes on the back of long-term strategic reviews conducted by both Associations who believe that uniting as one body will lead to a stronger voice for members, the enhancement of existing initiatives and an expansion of the range of benefits and services.
The proposed merger has the full backing of both the ESTA Board of Directors and the PLASA Executive Committee who voted on the proposal this Summer and who will formally recommend the move to their respective memberships, subject to due diligence being completed successfully, during the Spring/Summer of 2010. If both memberships vote to go ahead, the first stage of t
The women, including Miley Cirus, Sheryl Crow, Jennifer Hudson, Melissa Etheridge and others along with host Paula Abdul, performed a three-hour live concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music before attending an after-show party at the neo-Romanesque styled Williamsburgh Savings Bank, a Brooklyn landmark since its completion in 1929.
Standing at 512 feet and renamed One Hanson Place, the structure is the tallest building in Brooklyn and second tallest on Long Island. The tower is fitted with a four-sided clock, the largest in the world until 1962, and is capped by a gilded copper dome. The building was named a historic landmark in 1977.
The upper floors have recently been converted from offices to hig
Gearhouse Staging Connections will put their new luminaires straight to work - first for use by Think Flash in Abu Dhabi, and then as part of the automated lighting package for a series of high profile events at the new Palladium Theatre in Dubai.
"The Middle East market, led by concert activity in the United Arab Emirates, has become more and more sophisticated over the past 10 years and the expectations of the client base have grown significantly," stated Peter McCann, managing director, Gearhouse Staging Connections.
"The operating conditions in this market are extreme with temperatures up to 50
The challenge was to create a versatile design that could provide a calm but attractive feel to the room for the pre-show dinner and drinks, but then transform the space into an exclusive nightclub for the after show parties.
To achieve this, White Light's Dominic Yates used some of the latest technology from White Light's extensive lighting stock to create a design flexible enough to give the room a different feel for each concert, while dynamic enough to continue the excitement of the gig beyond the end of each show.
The design made use of the new Fusion672 LED panels, which allowed the creation of both dramatically changing lighting backdrops and corporate branding, with the 'Club Wembley' logo presen
These events offer young people aged 13 and above a taste of the job roles available behind the scenes and offstage in technical theatre and live music events.
Pupils from local schools will meet and experience the work of a number of professionals including lighting and sound technicians, marketing and stage managers and designers, in venues from the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth, up to the SAGE in Gateshead. Behind the scenes staff will share the tricks of their trade and experiences, working out of the 'spotlight'.
Offstage is produced by The National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural Skills (NSA), a network of industry speciali
The gig celebrated the band's forthcoming album Keep Calm & Carry On, and Routledge was asked to light this and a warm-up gig at the Electric Ballroom in London following a TV special he designed for them last year at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, for which he won a Welsh BAFTA Award.
Blackburn-based HSL has supplied a number of Routledge's recent projects, and he was keen for them to also do this one. "The variety of kit that HSL has available is really impressive, as is their attention to detail and willingness to customise gear and accommodate non-standard requirements," he says. The project was managed for HSL by Mike Oates.
Die Ärzte's live performances have a reputation for dazzlingly spectacular light-shows and this one was no exception. Helmig arranged the fixtures - a mix of ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E ATs and ColorSpot and Wash 2500E ATs - across nine 'finger' trusses above the stage, and on a front truss.
On the floor were 12 ColorWash 2500E ATs and six ColorWash 1200E ATs, used for aerial beam work, effects and low level cross stage lighting - all adding a bit of additional drama and dimension to the stage.
The design also incorporated GLEC video screens hung in between the trusses, and Helmig tried to make the stage as open and accessible for sight-lines all around
Collie decided to use the MAC III Profile on the tour because, he said, they were new, brighter and better.
"Due to the huge video screen, we needed to move the lighting elements into useful positions when required so we have most of the MAC IIIs on 'pods' that can track, raise/lower and rotate within the three-dimensional area over the stage," says Collie. "The MAC IIIs are nice and bright, the zoom range is good and the rotating effect wheel is a nice gag."
Pat Brannon adds: "I love the optics of the MAC III. It has the same features of the MAC 2000 with much improved optics and brightness - in fact, I love their brightness. Of course, the added animation wheel is awesome. I really like the speed at which the fixt
The theatre was the Arts Theatre, located in the heart of London's West End; the three productions indicated the many different capacities in which White Light can help light a show as well as its ability to work to suit a production's schedule, however demanding.
The first of the three shows, an event in the theatre, saw White Light deliver lighting equipment on Friday for a Saturday show, then return late on Saturday evening to collect the gear from the theatre after the event.
The second saw White Light's Production team working with PositiveTV on an event in the theatre; the Production team provide a complete lighting service, including design, supply, crewing and more,
To achieve a more distinct identity in trussing, the pre-existing partnership with Litec has been terminated.
"Proel and Trabes are two companies which, to some extent, share the same idea of business," explains Maurizio Amadori, founder and Chairman of Trabes. "Since it was established in 1985, Trabes has always worked in the market trying to meet the concrete needs of its customers and demonstrating its commitment to product reliability with accurate choice of materials and attention to detail, as well as with st
"An awards show of that size and pressure is like going into battle in the trenches," says Kenny. "In New York, everybody thinks they know how to be the mayor, the president of the United States and the lighting designer of the VMAs. You just have to hold your ground and do your show."
Working under such mission-critical conditions Kenny sought reliability and dependability as well as great creative scope from his lighting instruments. "I used Coemar Infinitys as the firepower on the show," he says. "All the lights pointing
The show is being staged by Kevin Wall, who told BBC News he has been "overwhelmed" by major artists wanting to get involved. "That's unusual, normally it's the other way round," he added. He admitted he will have to turn down some big name acts: "We are going to have a lot of the major African artists and really it's going to be about Africa so the slots for international artists are a rarity."
Wall believes the show could reach an even bigger TV audience than Live 8 and Li
"The solutions that GSEO is developing can bring great benefit to the cities that adopt and implement the new street lights," said Alvin Tse, VP Asia Pacific Sales at Philips Lumileds. "We expect that their design will deliver high quality, reliable street lighting for many years to come."
"GSEO's approach to creating new solutions is to choose the highest quality LEDs and to implement an optimised system design to ensure that the new luminaire is the best overall solution for its designated application," said Calvin Chen, director of LED Lighting BU at
Philips Selecon's new Wing range of performance wall washer floods was being demonstrated at Northern Light's festival showcase in August and Jim Ewen, Arts Centre technician for project ability at Trongate 103, was one of NL's invited guests.
Ewen said: "Trongate 103's official launch was coming up on 8 September and I was looking for some architectural lighting to illuminate the exhibits. After consulting with the team from Northern Light and seeing the fixtures in action, I realised that the Selecon Wing 35W metal halide model would be absolutely perfect for our needs."
Northern Light provided a total of 142 Selecon Wing Wall Washers in architectural white for the client to install across a range of spaces within the six storey former Ed
The Los Angeles location has been strategically selected, placing GLP in the densely populated industrial district of Torrance, a traditional West Coast heartland for show production and event staging.
Elation Professional will remain GLP's distributor for the Impression range. But this development will enable the company to offer Elation much closer support, emphasises Ravenhill, who in addition to heading up the operation will retain his position as GLP's director of global key players.
Ravenhill says he is relishing the challenge. "It is a great opportunity to further exploit the enormous success of the expanding Impression range and at the same time reu
The competition was launched by the NRM to encourage students to consider the importance of lighting design in museums in the lead up to its re-development plans for the Great Hall.
Helen Ashby, acting director of the NRM, explains, "We're always looking to involve different groups of people in our various projects and we've really enjoyed watching the designs come together. It's been great to have the students bring so many new ideas to the table."
The winners of the competition were Jonathan Jewitt, Chris Farncombe, Craig Kilmartin and Oli Downton from Rose Bruford College in Kent. One of the judges, Belinda Morris, display content manager at the NRM said, "The scheme designed
A team of eight led by James Mitchelmore (days) and Kris Love (nights) installed some 16,000m of festoon, 40 generators of varying sizes and several hundred other assorted items of lighting and power distribution.
"The site is not without its challenges but good weather made all the difference and the installation was completed in record time, with the Tower daily festoon-hanging record broken," notes Mitchelmore. "It was a good conclusion to a busy summer season including Rock Ness, the Wickerman Festival, the World Mountain Bike champs, the Scottish game fair, the Tartan Heart Festiva, Edinburgh Festival and many other smaller projects."
(Jim Evans)
The Centre offers children and teenagers an insight into what scientists actually do and how their work influences real life, through a series of interactive games. Visitors can try their hand at virtual experiments, observe real body parts and diagnose disease using high-power microscopes. This combination of digital technologies and real-world science creates a science education experience not available in the classroom.
Centre of the Cell is designed by Land Design Studio and lit by David Atkinson Lighting Design (DALD). The
connecting the Martin Universal USB/DMX box to any Maxxyz PC will generate 1024 DMX channels. This is an opportunity for Martin LightJockey users with larger requirements to experience all the power and benefits of Maxxyz PC, says the company. Users can download the new software from the Maxxyz support site at www.martin.com/maxxyz/support.asp
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Pancho comments: "We chose the grandMA2 for two primary reasons. First of all the console is one of the most universally accepted worldwide as well as in Brazil, especially the grandMA2 light, which addresses all the requirements of both large and smaller tours. The other reason is because of the fantastic support offered by the local MA Lighting office in Brazil, MA Lighting Latin America.
Rent All Show is a company with 20 years experience in the market. It provides professional lighting and audio solutions for the entertainment business, mainly for the concert touring sector and already owns MA equipment.
(Jim Evans)
