The Clothes Show Live was hosted at the Birmingham NEC in December for Haymarket Exhibitions. Production manager Paul Divine worked with XL Events on an ambitious set where all three screens were built onto revolves. The rear of the screens were dressed seasonal style to resemble giant bow-wrapped Christmas presents! These were constructed from three large Lighthouse R7 screens with varying panel counts and a right angle in each.
Tim Riley, project manager for XL Events says, "This was a challenging yet rewarding project. We had great support from Stage One who created the structure supporting the screens and the dressing at the back, and coupled with cool graphics, all elements combined to make an excellent show."
In November 2009, XL Events secured the contract to supply video for this year's Wella International Trend Vision Awards event, held at the now closed Berlin Tempelhoff Airport.
The event was organised and produced by Jack Morton Worldwide (London) and encompassed all elements for a runway show, a stage show and a large 'zoned' breakout room, all set within two of the old airport hangers (once part of the Skybridge Airport into West Berlin).
The video supplied by XL Events included a 100sq.m LED screen (made up from Pixled F11 panels) used as a central backdrop to the stage. This was flanked by two front projection screens of 60 square metres, fed by Barco FLM 20K projectors.
During December, XL Events was involved with Speakeasy, who were producing a five-venue nationwide road show featuring 22 presentations to a total of 13,000 personnel from a financial services organization. The presentation delivery concept involved creating the look and feel of a book on a flat projection surface with the perception of the pages actually turning. This was achieved using a Pandora's Box media server's 'Z' axis to create the depth of field, and then surface mapping the output giving the illusion of a curved screen.
(Jim Evans)
