USA - This year's Super Bowl halftime show certainly surpassed its predecessors in terms of memorable images - and some of the best had nothing to do with a certain 'wardrobe malfunction'. Incorporated into the staging design by Mark Fisher Studios' production team, 76 Versa TILE units from Element Labs provided visual support for the lighting design by LD Allen Branton. "The Versa TILEs were phenomenal," says lighting director Christian Choi. "They worked out great. Allen and I were really impressed with their performance."

The Versa TILEs lit up eight sections of stage along the perimeter of the stage riser. Half of them were eight panels wide, at 40 pixels wide and five pixels high, and the other half consisted of 11 panels, at 55 pixels wide and five pixels high. Choi used Adobe After Effects software to create custom content, which he matched pixel by pixel and then uploaded onto two High End Systems' Catalyst v3 Media Servers. Choi triggered all the lighting effects through a Wholehog II console. Data was sent to the Catalyst server, which was in turn connected to the Versa DRIVE processor that sent the cues to the tiles for a seamless integration of lighting and video looks.

"I built them into my lighting cues so it was all in sync, and I would freeze them in open white or strobe them in blocks or bring them into a wide range of different colours," he explains.Choi also brought in video clips that he scaled down for the TILEs' size. "The combination of Catalyst and Versa TILE was amazing," he says. "In contrast to regular LEDs and projection, it really stood out as another great video element. They're crisp, clear, and very bright and they provide a pure digital representation of whatever you put up there. It's a very cool and different look that complements regular video, standard projection, or LED. It's really a big step forward."

(Lee Baldock)


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