Paul 'Eggy' Eggerton is the band's video director, working closely with engineer Wolfgang 'Wolfie' Schramm. They came onboard and helped the creative team after being recommended by co-lighting designer Jamie Thompson with whom they had worked on the Biffy Clyro tour. Their brief from the off on the camera mix was to be experimental and give it an edge, a vibe and make it something different from a standard IMAG show.
XL Video's director Des Fallon comments, "The Script are one of the most exciting young bands of the moment, their music is inventive and refreshing, and we're pleased to be working with them, their production team and with Eggy and Wolfie who did a fantastic job in bringing real character and style to the visuals. It's also been a joy to work with production manager Bob O'Brien and tour manager Quinner."
Jamie Thompson and Bryan Leitch initiated the overall visual look and feel for the stage, which included the centre stage Pixled F11 screen, measuring 13.5m wide by 5m deep. This created an impressive and integrated backdrop for both playback and IMAG visuals. Considerable attention went into ensuring that the lighting and video had great synergy and balance.
XL also supplied two 20 x 11 ft side stage IMAG screens and two Barco FLM HD20 machines, one per side, to feed them. There were seven cameras in total.
Eggerton's vision mixer was a GV Kayak SD system, fully optimised to aid the 'live' flow of the mix. He also used a Magic DVE for specific effects, including adding a classic 'filmic' quality to the footage at certain points, with subliminal strobing effects and some beautifully rich saturated colouration.
The show also featured a selection of playback visuals for the side screens created by video artist Paul 'Pablo' Beckett, which were stored on two Grass Valley Turbo hard drives and triggered via the Kayak.
In addition to these, XL supplied two Green Hippo Hippotizer HD media servers which were run from Jamie Thompson's Avolites' lighting console, loaded with content and graphics for the F11 screen also made by Pablo. Eggerton had an output from the Hippos feeding into his Kayak, and Thompson had a TX feed from the Kayak into the Hippos.
(Jim Evans)
