A to V's Mark Whitehead advised on process, content ratios and resolution, whilst all content - celebrating the history of the School of Art, which dates back to 1853 - was supplied by final year photography student, David Black.
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The AV team at Lumina Motion was tasked with creating an exciting and memorable product launch for Nokia's new Lumia 800 smartphone, and succeeded by working with Stampede to utilize "the best technology, share industry know-how and ensure patient attention to every technical detail".
According to Lumina Motion owner Gonzalo de la Barra: "We at Lumina Motion know that when you're producing a live event, everything has to be perfect. Stampede knows this too, which is why they recommended the eight Christie Full HD projectors and Geffen Fiber Optic cables to produce over 10,000 square feet of HD video display with precis
CPL was working for production company, Twofour. The event covered eight different independent areas - Reception, Tunnel, The Hub, Leaders, People, Fans, Business and Car Showroom - in ExCel, and was one of CPL's largest projects to date in terms of total equipment supply.
Over 60 moving lights, 150 generic fixtures, 80 LED PARcans and one and a half artic's worth of trussing were deployed.
Smaller breakout rooms featured a quantity of 85" HD plasmas; Business and the Hub utilised HD Panasonic PT-DZ110X projection and over 60 d&b speakers; The Car Showroom had an NEC HD 4x4 46" flown plasma wa
"I took a couple of years out, but once you are in this industry, I think you are in for life," quipped Mick.
"I love the way the industry constantly progresses; TechPro embrace all of the new technologies, market changes and latest kit, offering Clients the very best equipment coupled with unrivalled technical support resulting in excellent customer service and satisfaction" he said.
TechPro Events is a family-owned AV company based in the Midlands offering audio visual equipment hire and full technical support services to the live event industry throughout the U.K and Europe.
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The new purpose built facility at GulfView provides a showcase for the company's products and incorporates training, state of the art demonstration rooms and warehousing on an enlarged footprint.
Formally opening with a press day on 30 April as a precursor to an Open House week, customers will be afforded an opportunity to see the latest product offerings and experience Christie's wide ranging capabilities in different market segments, which have brought them much success in the Middle East.
Features will include: Warped and blended Mirage 3D projection onto curved screen (with content delivered from a Vista Spyder), as well as simulated control room environments, MicroTiles applications and
The elegant production design encompassing the three curved over-stage screens was the concept of Il Divo's artistic director, Brian Burke.
This follows on from an initial curved screen idea showcased at the group's high profile one-off shows at London's Coliseum Theatre last year - with XL also supplying video production. Central to the concept is that the screens should appear to be 'floating' in the air - with minimal or no rigging visible - a task with which XL Video was then challenged to recreate in a tourable format by tour director and production manager, Andy Proudfoot.
XL's project manager Paul 'Macca'
The product that they were looking for had to be suitable for use in a number of applications from festivals and tours, to house of worship and corporate events - and have the features to produce high quality results whilst coping with different video input formats. The V-1600HD ticked all of the boxes and after seeing the product at BVE and ha
Parks comments, "As the company has grown over the past few years, I have been shadowing Stephen, so it made sense for an official restructuring in order to formalise my role and to allow Stephen to focus on other aspects of the business.
"My strengths lie in client liaison and people management, where Stephen's lie in his extensive lighting industry experience and business development, so it makes good business sense to capitalise on these abilities."
Capel adds, "Point Source has seen different stages of growth from start up in 1997 to the present; now we're about to start a new phase of expansion. I'm looking forward to promoting the Ev
The lighting is designed by Francesco Calvi and supplied by Chameleon Touring Systems with Paul Collison producing and replaying the screen content for the show. Collison also acts as lighting director when Francesco is unavailable.
Integral to the look of the show is a large panorama of LED which allows the creative team to create the show's environment on a 360 degree surface. Sometimes the LED surface is treated as one single surface but this is not always possible as the LED screens are used similar to legs in the theatre to mask entrances and this leads to overlaps with the images.
"This means that often the LED screens are treated as individual surfaces rather than part of the panorama," said Collison. "It
Moores continues, "We buy Christie because of the people we deal with there. The product is stunning but the relationship we have with them is the most important thing. The Technical support from Christie is very helpful and you can speak to someone in depth. They're always very quick to resolve issues when they do occur and Christie is a very good product. I would say it's one of the best.
"We opted for the J Series as it is packed with features, so
After the successful training sessions organised in conjunction with Green Hippo at Theatre Basel in the autumn of 2011, IQunlimited scheduled another two-day training seminar for an extended range of clients.
The training took place Tuesday and Wednesday 13 & 14 March in a Cultural and Community Centre close to Zurich with invitations going to IQunlimited's customers as well as potential clients.
With attendees ranging from various fields including rental companies, theatres and operas, TV/Broadcast, cultural centres, concert halls as well as freelance designers and operators, IQunlimited managed to reach a wide range of market sectors, increasing Hippotizers profile even further in Switzerland.
Once again the seminars were held by Green Hipp
These solutions will be exhibited in Analog Way's booth #N952 during InfoComm 2012, from 13-15 June in Las Vegas.
"Analog Way has a long history in the development of solutions enabling the creation of wide images, either horizontally or vertically", explains Franck Facon, marketing & communications director. "Combining this with different levels of processing capabilities, we now offer three Edge Blending syste
dbn's project manager was Nigel Walker, and they were working for UK based Stage One Creative Services, with whom Walker has enjoyed a long and successful working relationship. Stage One in turn was commissioned by producers Fabelactiv, to deliver a set for the high profile show which is broadcast from their HD studios in Hamer via national TV channel, NRK.
Stage One appointed Nick King to design the spectacular set, and then asked dbn to interpret the prominent lighting elements of the resulting 15m wide scenic environment, a streamlined fusion of interlocking curves made from frosted acrylic material and backlit with LEDs, embracing retro and futuristic in
Gray was commissioned to create the piece by curator Charlotte Lurot. The exhibition, supported by HRH The Prince of Wales, focuses on the modern, innovative and avant garde use of wool in creative industries.
Gray's video and sound installation is fully interactive - visitors listen to a soundscape through pre-triggered headphones and look at a fully visual 'colour story' unfolding in front of them that encapsulates the diversity, chaos, symmetry and many textural possibilities of the warp and weft of the wool.
The physical installation is a frame structure with three panels of stretched wool yarns
Telegenic's Rob Watt says: "We have hundreds of flight cases here at Telegenic, each housing specific and expensive items of broadcast equipment. Working in a 'live' and very unforgiving industry, we have to know exactly where our kit is at all times. Le Mark labels are an essential part of our working day, being clear to read, practical and durable."
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Designed and directed by France-based ECA2, who were involved in shows such as the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1998 World Cup in France and the Eiffel Tower Millennium Show, the 'O' stands for the ocean and resembles the numerical zero to illustrate a new beginning for the sea. The show is expected to remain as a permanent centrepiece after Expo.
Two sets of triple-stacked Christie Roadie HD+35Ks project a short animated film about ocean conservation onto the water screen at the internal rim of the 'O' which is l
The equipment used needed to reflect the importance of energy efficiency with the project including a 10-minute video presentation that takes the visitor through all the issues that come with durable and energy efficient construction, renovation and housing. Visual Productions' CueCore proved to be the right choice for solid-state lighting control and this unit benefits from having a minimal power consumption.
The presentation takes place on four synchronized big LED scr
TRIAS S.A. is the official technology partner of the stadium and the general contractor of the tele-technical systems. For the next five years TRIAS will also supervise the correct functioning of the installed electronic systems.
During Euro 2012 PGE Arena Gdansk will host three group games as well as a quarter final. Designed in a manner to resemble the colour of Baltic amber, the arena can seat up to 42 000 spectators.
TRIAS equipped the stadium with four diode sc
Helping to tell this story is an immersive three-side 'cave' - a CGI virtual walk-through of the entire ship, constructed by Bedfordshire-based Paradigm Audio Visual, and installed by DJ Willrich to meet the design brief from Event Communications.
The Paradigm project team was led by Steve Pratt, director of engineering, who conducted several site meetings before drawing up the design for the three seamless rear projection surfaces, each 6m (wide) x 2.3m (high) and powered by Panasonic PT-DZ110 dual lamp, 10,600 lumens WUXGA resolution projectors, fitted with 0.8:1 lenses.
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Explaining the technology installed, Alan Williams, operations manager at Atlas AV says, "The interpretation designs provided by Ralph Appelbaum Associates and interior fit-out by Beck Interiors are complemented by state of the art audiovisual technology.
"Projection is prominent within the exhibition and displays are all individually warped and blended using Delta Media Servers to fit the contours of the historic building with masks placed on the edges for a soft edge. Uncompressed content created by Center Screen Productions is controlled by 7thSense Design Delta central media servers, providing frame accurate synchronised projections with 32 channels of audio over CobraNet to provide gen locked audio in addition to gen locked video
Stuart Holmes, PSCo Group CEO explained, "At PSCo, our ethos is to invest in and bring new technologies to the UK market, making them available to our trade partners in compelling rental packages. The introduction of omniSHAPES will give customers more flexibility to be creative with the confidence of the latest German engineering supporting the product.
"omniSHAPES is believed to be a real game changer and the next generation of display and is the most technical
Throughout the last year, the Association has continued to develop and promote its Technical Access Passport (TAP) - launched at the ABTT 2011 Theatre Show - a scheme that creates an online repository for verified training, skills, insurance and other professional information.
Now, with TAP gaining weight within the industry, the second phase of the scheme is ready to start. Industry trainers will
No Show - Lady Gaga has cancelled a concert in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, citing security concerns after protests by religious groups. The s
A collaboration between the town of Les Baux de Provence and the specialist French venue management company Culture spaces, Carrières de Lumières'('Quarries of Light') is a hi-tech re-purposing of the Carrières du Val d'Enfer- a network of abandoned chalk-mining tunnels close to the historic Provençal village.
With a subterranean feel, the Carrières de Lumières is a labyrinth almost 200m long that varies in height between 10 and 15m. In its newly re-invented form, the space provides the perfect backdrop for large-scale video projection- a place where visitors can view images close to or from a greater distance away, while the texture of the chalk surfaces adds further visual interest to whatever a
