Show director Oanh Nguyen wanted to present a gritty, contemporary version of the classic West Side Story, so he and lighting designer KC Wilkerson discussed using a rig of practical, industrial fixtures - fluorescent, metal-halide, sodium - to achieve an edgier lighting design. A trip to the USITT 2012 tradeshow in Long Beach, California
These were supplied by Robe's Serbian distributor Studio Berar Projekt. The decision to go with Robe fixtures for the TV station was a collective one, made by all the lighting designers, DoPs, technicians and engineers involved in lighting their busy schedule of programmes.
Day to day, the new lights are being looked after by chief lighting technician, Irinej Hudak. They are currently being used on one of the most popular current affairs programmes on Serbian TV, Tabloid with Saa and Nataa.
The programme is co-hosted by its originator Aleksandar (Saa) Filipovi?, together with Nataa Ili?-Jovanovi? and is celebrating its 16th g
Up to 2.3W RGB, 6W green and 10W blue can be supplied in this new system, together with an accurate 50kpps Xscan galvos, making the unit ideal for beam shows, graphics and advertisement applications.
"Of course it is possible to extend even the possibilities by upgrading the units to CT-6210HP scanners for high professional use. Professionals also like the option to individually balance every single color by trim pots on the rear side of the projector. Also scanning size can be adjusted that way.
High precision is decisive for proper graphics scanning, but also for better beam visibility. That's why the PM-1300RGB and the PM-180
The standard F-10 i/o tile is fully indoor use ready. It is a mesh surface and therefore transparent, ideal for creative indoor work including scenic elements - and also for IMAG displays. The tile dimensions are 50 x 50 cm each of which is lightweight at only 7 Kg. (28 Kg/sqm)
For outdoor use, Pixled offers optional "clickable in/outdoor shaders" which are quickly fitted onto the mesh tiles and include blank panels to 'close' the modules and increase the contrast. The tiles are IP65 rated and have a brightness of 5000 Nits.
F-10 i/o can als
The legendary BRDC Ball is staged in a luxury marquee adjacent to the Members' Clubhouse on the eve of the F1 Santander British Grand Prix Weekend. It attracts the highest profile members, a selection of celebrities and important players in the world of motorsport.
AC-ET, patron to the British Racing Drivers' Club's exclusive Rising Stars programme - worked closely alongside the BRDC Events team to deliver the impressive temporary lighting installation.
The brief was to transform the three-storey Clubhouse - located right by the racetrack in prime viewing position - into a dynamic space for the event, bringing a new and exciting ambien
Gray is a well-known international fashion show lighting designer, and has worked with both Bacchus and their clients, the British Fashion Council on many other projects.
His starting point for the design on this one was a very attractive clean, streamlined set designed by Bacchus including white stretched material 'walls,' bench seats and large white flats for backdrops in the main room at the Hospital Club, for which the exterior walls were draped in black for contrast and to enhance the clean cut look.
"It was a simple, modular and extremely pleasant environment to light," comments Gray who c
The Cinco de Mayo Spectacular, hosted by former Miss Universe Ximena Navarrette, featured star-studded tributes, an appearance by the Mexican president and a massive display of fireworks. It was staged at the Guadalupe Fort in Puebla; the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Televisa broadcast the event nationwide.
Lighting designer David Grill, of David Grill Associates, Inc. in Mahwah, New Jersey
In addition to being the German distributor for GLP, Green Hippo and Global Truss, B&K Braun has also been manufacturing and distributing a full range of architectural and entertainment lighting fixtures for many years themselves. The new partnership will see the B&K Braun range of products being made available to all of GLP's customers with immediate effect.
GLP and B&K Braun are located next to each other in the southern German town of Karlsbad and product distribution will take place from a brand new headquarters in the town where sales administration and logistics will be located.
As with the GLP products, such as the impression range, which includes the new X4 and compact Volkslicht series, all fixtures pass through a rigorous q
The 35-minute interactive experience is billed as the perfect way for visitors to end a day of excitement at the park this summer. Hundreds of Chauvet fixtures are part of this show that features displays of lights, music and dance performances, special effects, fireworks, pyrotechnics and live DJ action.
Luminosity, Powered by Pepsi concentrates about 700 Chauvet lights, making it the focal point of Cedar Point come nightfall. More Chauvet fixtures light up Millennium Force and Power Tower attraction rides, and the Midway show that takes the visitor on a colourful experience from the entrance of the
Visentin's creative relationship with Bocelli started in 2006 and this tour's natural innovative design contains lots of subtleties, with slow colour changes and no visible movement. It is operated completely 'live' every night using the Vista's powerful visual interface and just a few pre-programmed presets. This allows Aldo the creative freedom to reflect the spirit of the evening in the lighting, and flow organically with the mood of the set.
Rather non-conventionally, a typical Bocelli tour will feature two or three shows a week over a three week period - often on different continents. Instead of touring a production lighting system, lighting equipment is normally hired
SRD Group of Tonbridge, Kent used six of MilTec's LEDHead 324W moving head washes for main stage. Stuart Roberts, MD of SRD Group commented, "We chose the MTM-324W to replace our ageing discharge lamp moving head wash lights and are delighted with the purchase. They are lighter and probably brighter than the units they are replacing, and yet consume a fraction of the electricity, which saves on cabling as well. The built in programs work well and are useful when time is short to get a good looking show up and running.
"We used them for the first time on our 12m trailer stage at the Maidstone Torch Relay celebrations in
For the first time, say the organisers, four separate, focused events (The ARC Show, Interiors LDN, kbb LDN and DX) will combine to serve the broad sourcing needs of these key specifiers.
Brand director Andrew Vaughan commented, "Each year we work closely with the lighting design community and take on board their insights to ensure we deliver the right event for the industry, therefore our commitment to strengthen our relationship with mondo*arc will only serve to make the 2013 event its best ever. By developing our content we were able to deliver a fantastic 2012 event which saw an increase in audience groups such as architects and lighting designers
This recently includes the popular Fly On The Millions quiz show, recorded in Studio 4 of GG Studios, Neverelan, Jerusalem, the country's main TV production facility. This show is in its third series and will soon be rolled out in the US via NBC and also in Europe.
Contestants answering questions wrong are spectacularly dumped from the set via a trap door opening beneath their podium. The show is broadcast on prime time Friday night, on Channel 10.
Lighting is being supplied by Danor Rental and the Robe count includes 20 Robin 300E Beams, 10 ColorWash 700E ATs, six ColorBeam 2500s and 10 ColorSpot 1200E ATs.
Jacobi's initial st
Viewers were also wowed by a range of images including a computer generated image of the birth of the internet, which started on the field of play and shot outwards into the audience and beyond. The giant video screen was made up of small paddle-shaped Pixel Tablets designed by Tait Technologies, each attached to a seat in the stadium and bearing 9 full colour pixels arranged in a square.
Together, the 70,500 Pixel Tablets created a 'human powered' screen of unprecedented size, on which Crystal's spectacular digital animations were displayed. Designed to support and extend th
Over one billion people worldwide watched on Friday, 27 July, 2012 as the Olympic torch passed under the bridge by speedboat on the way to Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremonies. Television crews worldwide will use the Tower Bridge and its rings as a backdrop for their Olympic coverage throughout the games.
Lighting designer Adam Bassett specified over 90 moving lights and a variety of other gear that required four universes of SHoW DMX wireless DMX to control, along with panel antennas with custom antenna extension cables, with Transceivers built into equipment racks. The SHoW DMX equipment was provided and installed by Neg Earth.
For in-depth coverage of the production behind
The first session to be revealed in The Olympics Uncovered programme at PLASA 2012, Backstage at the London 2012 Ceremonies is your chance to hear technical director, Piers Shepperd, and team present an overview of the mega staging, flying, audio, AV and special effects behind the London 2012 Olympic Ceremonies.
The bumper line-up includes:
Piers Shepperd - technical director
Jeremy Lloyd - technical manager - technical design and staging
James Lee - technical manager - aerial & closing ceremonies
Nick Jones - technical manager - lighting AV and power
Scott Buchanan - technical manager - services and special projects
Gray was asked to light a spectacular tree set structure created by Block 9 (Gideon Berger and Steve Gallagher) for the event - which toured to three outdoor venues in Reading, Oxford (as part of the Olympic Torch relay) and Henley.
Block9 and Renegade have collaborated on many previous festivals and events, and Gray was, "Very excited to take up the challenge"
"The tree structure was truly impressive" he explains, "Big, bold and making a real statement on one hand, whilst also involving many intricacies and detail, all of which needed highlighting diligent
Designed around a new 1000-watt HID source, the Mac Viper's light output exceeds many 1200-watt lighting fixtures, with Viper both more compact and faster moving than those higher-wattage fixtures while also using less energy.
The Viper Profile spotlight offers a 10-44 degree zoom, two 5-position indexing/rotating gobo wheels, an effect wheel, CMY colour mixing plus a CTO correction wheel, eight slot colour wheel, iris, strobe, four-facet prism and soft frost. Viper also features a 140mm front lens, giving great "fat beam" looks when the fixture is viewed front-on.
"We think the Viper is a great light," says Dave Isherwood, White Light's hire and technical director. "Its output is a drama
The Ghost has been designed so that the built-in features which have made Lectern Company lecterns so popular have not been compromised, says the company. It has a 7" HD monitor, shock mounted microphone sockets, cable management system and an LED uplighter. These have all been carefully incorporated into the slim and elegant design.
The Ghost will be on stand 1-H11 at PLASA 2012 together with The Lectern Company's other designs.
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The World Responds - The UK's TV audience for the opening ceremony peaked at 26.9m, the BBC has said. The average viewing figure for Friday's four-hour show was 22.4m, making it the UK's 13th most watched programme ever. The programme also had an 82% share - almost twice that of the previous high for an Olympic opening ceremony, in Barcelona in 1992. UK viewing figures for the opening ceremony of
Florian Allain, Dushow's technical director, explains, "We needed to use LED as we wanted to keep an eye on our power usage - we only have a limited amount available, and we wanted to get the most out of it. So with that in mind, we did a shoot out with a number of fixtures, concluding that ETC's Source Four LED, which was demonstrated to us by ETC distributor Avab Transtechnik France, was the most suitable for us.
"The presenters sit in front of a window with Tower Bridge in the background, which could have been our biggest challenge - we need enough lighting to avoid them being silhouetted, even with the bright ligh
(The first system - Olympic Ceremonies - features curved lighting poles that extend over the edge of the playing field. They hold the Syncrolites, FOP lights and some smaller moving heads). Patrick Woodroffe is the LD.
Forty SXL (four each on 10 of the 14 'paddles') are flown head down to light the Opening Ceremonies stages and action doing many jobs from long-throw, cross-fading washes to our big beams, motion FX and ballyhoos. This system replacies the work of over 400 regular moving heads. "Due to the extraordinary output (350,000 lumens) of our Syncrolite SXL fixtures, the efficiency and powerful looks are unparalleled. We believe the combination of our Syncrolite and ArenaColor is the future of major stadium permanent installations," says the company.
Fifty-four ArenaColors are f
"We see nothing but positives in this decision," said SGM CEO Peter Johansen. "These will be the only official dealers for SGM products in the UK and Ireland, and between them they will be able to increase penetration in all SGM's core markets."
AC-ET managing director Phill Capstick and UK sales director, Jonathan Walters, were impressed when LED Projects MD Ian Kirby introduced them to SGM's new generation of LED products at this year's Frankfurt Prolight+Sound Show.
"We were very excited, particularly by the X-5 and XC-5 LED strobes, and could see enormous potential in the Six Pack [SP-6] and P5 LED Wash, which with its IP65 rating, will be well suited to the arc
CREATE Jobs - which aims to tackle youth unemployment and provide new routes into the arts and creative industries - wants creative industry employers to provide eight-week traineeships for talented young people from the six Olympic Host Boroughs (Barking & Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest), where youth unemployment is at its highest.
The initiative has already won support from the Whitechapel Gallery, Hip Hop Shakespeare Company, and Shoreditch Trust, and has successfully placed 100 young people. With a booming creative economy, where 1:6 jobs in London are pr
