Lighting

Details

14 March 2016

The account was handled by HSL's Mike Oates, who says: "It was great to be working with Abbiss again. As always, he came up with a really inventive design and a flexible rig offering lots of options for the different sized venues."

Abbiss's initial brief expanded as the tour sold more tickets and some dates moved up to bigger venues, resulting in the final itinerary ranging from the 16,000 capacity Manchester Evening News Arena at the larger end of the scale to Norwich UEA and Ipswich Regent Theatre at the cosier end. "This was the real challenge," says Abbiss, "Designing something that looked equally good in different spaces and that

Details

14 March 2016

Color Kinetics has achieved over 15,000 installations worldwide with its LED lighting technology, and has famously amassed a powerful patent portfolio encompassing 71 issued patents to date. The company licenses its technology throughout the lighting industry, and has worked alongside government agencies to promote the advancement of LED lighting as the best long-term choice for energy efficiency. "The acquisition by Philips will dramatically fortify the combined company's reach and efforts to make its technology the de facto platform for intelligent L

Details

14 March 2016

But while it's steeped in Old South tradition, the General Jackson has gone strictly 21st century in its theatrical lighting. A new package of intelligent fixtures from Elation Professional was recently installed in the boat's Victorian Theatre, a majestic two-story dinner theatre where the main stage shows are held.

The room's lighting had previously consisted primarily of conventional par cans and Ellipsoid fixtures, but the boat's entertainment and design staff felt it was time to upgrade. "They wanted to move 100% into intelligent lighting," said Peter Vaque of Sp

Details

14 March 2016

Designed to reflect excellence in new products in lighting, sound, engineering, AV and staging - the PLASA Awards for Innovation were first established in 1992 and have since been presented annually during the PLASA Show, which this year runs from 9-12 September at Earls Court in London. The Awards have a justly deserved reputation for identifying high quality, innovative new products early in their life and many previous winners are now firmly established in their fields.

Judged by a panel of respected industry professionals, products nominated for the Awards compete for one of eight Innovation Awards, plus an additional troph

Details

14 March 2016

HSL was working for Neil MacDonald's Clockwork Productions who were appointed by promoters Live Nation to co-ordinate all the Leeds site's technical production requirements. On site, HSL's crew of 11 was led by project manager Mike Oates assisted by Debbie Owens. They collaborated closely with main stage production manager Mick Brown.

Taking Saturday night main stage headliners' Kaiser Chiefs as the starting point in terms of building lighting rig, HSL brought in designer Andy Liddle to liaise with all the headliner LDs - Susan Sasic for the White Stripes (Friday), the Kaiser Chiefs' Richard Larkum (Saturday) and Sunday headliners Daft Punk's Martin Phillips - Three top bands

Details

14 March 2016

Located in a college town - the home of Middle Tennessee State University - the church wanted the new rooms to reflect its orientation toward youth, said Peter Vaque of Springtree Media Group, which provided lighting, staging, audio and multimedia. "New Vision has always had a large following among college students and young people," said Vaque. "It has prided itself on being very state-of-the-art in the area

Details

14 March 2016

Marrying the techniques of American and Italian theatre, FITC's aim is to build relationships with the local Tuscan community through productions and outreach programmes. Most of its plays are in English, but for Agnes of God FITC needed to have the English dialogue subtitled by being translated into Italian and then projected on to the set. However, as a small company, having a separate video/projector operator was not possible.

This was an ideal situation for Rosco's Keystroke, a hardware/software solution designed for small technical team

Details

14 March 2016

Wembley (London), a wholly owned subsidiary of Quintain Estates and Development, has registered to darken the London skyline by 'switching off' Wembley's most popular landmarks. Only essential lighting and appliances will be left on to comply with safety regulations.

Deputy CEO of Quintain, Nick Shattock, comments, "We look forward to playing a part in creating awareness of a low carbon footprint for all. We aim to create a sustainable, zero-carbon Wembley and this campaign gives us the opportunity to show our commitment to that aim."

The 'Lights Out London' campaign, end

Details

14 March 2016

This year the CMA changed the set-up by featuring one stage instead of two to provide better television. The way the stages were structured in years past, it was technically very spread out, which made the event difficult to shoot. CMA Music festival production manager Chuck Young teamed up with Jim Brammer of G2 Structures to come up with a single stage design."The new design allowed us to interpret scenic elements to the sides of the stage. I think it's better for the fans as it's more centrally located and allows an equal view of the performance fro

Details

14 March 2016

"LightWild's ability to deliver complete LED solutions from controls to fixtures has been very well received by light designers and architects and is expected to be an exciting addition to the Nexxus Lighting family," said Mike Bauer, president and CEO of Nexxus Lighting. "Our goal is to provide the team at LightWild with the support they need to accelerate their expansion into the architectural lighting market with their uniqu

Details

14 March 2016

The show aired for nine consecutive nights up to the final on 17 June, was created by X Factor mogul Simon Cowell and presented by the Ant & Dec.

The show was produced by talkbackTHAMES, FreemantleMedia group and SyCo TV for ITV. Set design was by Dominic Tolfts. Lighting and video design was by Dave Davey, assisted by programmers Russell Grubiak and Bill Peachment.

Tolfts commented, "We didn't want to use an effects backdrop which was just another square box. In addition, because the main stage area and two smaller outer stages were a curved shape, we wanted something which we could mould around them - something you couldn't do with most other LED products. The Color Web's fle

Details

14 March 2016

The $60 million project is the Amara group's first resort development. The hotel features two ballrooms, seven meeting rooms and 91 deluxe rooms geared to business travellers and family visitors.

The 38 white Robe fixtures are the first phase of a lighting scheme designed by Hong Kong-based Gerard Lee of Light Directions, who was brought onboard as a lighting consultant for the ballroom. His brief was that the ballroom should be able to cater for 'virtually any event'.

The fixtures were supplied to installers Foster AV by Louis Teo of Robe South East Asia, and will be followed by a further delivery of 24 ColorSpot 170 ATs on the completion of phase 2 of the lig

Details

14 March 2016

Copeland brings with her a number of years experience of the industry having worked as a sales and account manager for companies such as White Light and Richard Martin Lighting. Copeland says of her post: "This is an exciting opportunity to work with such a well known and respected company in their latest venture. I am looking forward to working with the Procon team as we move forward into the UK market."

As a technical full service supplier Procon Event Engineering provides the media, entertainment and event industries. With subsidiaries and partners, Procon is represented worldwide, renting lighting,

Details

14 March 2016

Lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe and associated lighting designer and also light programmer, Danny Nolan have given the show a touch of old-style and new, to show, how the band appeared before and presently. To manage this task they relied on two grandMA full-size, four MA mediaPCs running grandMA video software and five MA NSPs.

The stage was constructed virtually with the software grandMA 3D. "It gave us the opportunity, to work with the complete stage view," explained Daniel Ridano of MA Lighting who accompanied the setup and programming phase. He also helped install the sophisticated network. MA-Net is used for data distribution during the show.

The stage was

Details

14 March 2016

Croatian national television broadcast the show live via 13 cameras operating throughout the stadium. The screens displayed live broadcast together with video clips from a Maxedia video server. Signals from the video server and cameras were managed by a Vista Spyder 344 processor and Analog Way Eventix seamless switcher / scaler.

A total of 112 modules were built into eight columns across the giant stage. The d11R fast rig modules made installation and de-rig an easy task for the one day event.

"This latest event was a great success; the concert producers we

Details

14 March 2016

The centerpiece of the new kit is the spray etch machine, which has been specifically designed for PI's requirements. It is a fully conveyorised system. The exposed and developed metal plates pass through a double-sided spray-etching chamber where the required images are etched through the metal surfaces. The plates are then washed, stripped of photo resist and cleaned.

PI's Jim Douglas says: "We are best known for our glass gobo work, in particular our expertise in custom colour gobos. However, the general increase in business over the

Details

14 March 2016

The Cork Opera House has recently used Stage Electrics' expertise to train its staff and now will be hosting the open courses at the end of August.

Course schedules include: Moving Light Masterclass and Advanced Strand Desk Programming. The Cork Opera House is also the first venue to host the newly developed Stage Flying & Rigging course. This course covers counterweight flying, single & double purchase, traditional hemp flying and rope craft together with LOLER principles and legislation, rigging, truss and motors.

Sara Alarabi, training manager for Stage Electrics, says: "I am delighted that we are expanding beyond the UK and are now running our popular technical th

Details

14 March 2016

CN Tower stands 1,815ft tall and is considered an engineering wonder of the modern world. For nearly a decade the Tower was minimally lit in an effort to conserve energy while awaiting a better long-term lighting solution.

Following extensive evaluation, a Color Kinetics system was chosen to visually transform the Tower's appearance while reducing energy consumption and maintenance requirements at the same time. According to preliminary operation, the Tower will consume less energy when fully illuminated by LED fixtures than it did when only partially illuminated by conventional sources.

"The CN Tower is wide

Details

14 March 2016

Cobrin comments, "It's the first time I have worked with Motley and production manager, Paul 'Kenno' Kennedy. It has been a breath of fresh air to work with two people that are so efficient and good at communicating. It has been a pleasure to work with them on this project."

Lighting technicians, Nigel Julian and Martin Garnish were hired to look after the system while on the road.

Hackett is based in Australia and has worked on and off with INXS for the last 14 years, fairly constantly for the last 11. He describes the current tour (ongoing since the start of 2006) as "an evolution" in terms of l

Details

14 March 2016

"Our customers have been telling us they need more flexible, IP-rated products for both touring and installations," says Rich Pierceall, sales and marketing director. "We feel the Helix product line answers that need with a wide variety of features at attractive price points."

Helix G75's ultra-thin grid construction provides the flexibility of a curtain-like screen with the geometric stability of a rigid product. Modules, each four pixels wide by 32 pixels long, can link together to create large displ

Details

14 March 2016

ETC's CEO Fred Foster, who accepted the trophy at the Showtech ceremony, says, "We are extremely proud to have Eos recognised in the German market by this award. Eos will be a very powerful tool for the lighting designers and lighting programmers in theatres, television studios and events."

(JIm Evans)

Details

14 March 2016

Element Labs' Kelvin Technology Series LED-based lighting system will be available for rent through Kino Flo in September 2007.

"By combining Element Labs' advancement in LED technology with Kino Flo's industry experience we look forward to developing tools that will further advance the art of filmmaking," says Kino Flo president and founder, Frieder Hochheim.

The Kelvin Technology Series represents a major advancement in the application of LEDs to create intelligent, controllable lighting, says the company. It provides variable colour temperature and maintains a colour rendering index (CRI) of 95 between 3200 K and 6500 K. It also offers d

Details

14 March 2016

Jazz World featured a strong line-up including Amy Winehouse, Corrine Bailey Rae, the Guillemots, John Fogerty, Mr Hudson and the Library, Rodrigo y Gabriela and many more.

DPL's Darren Parker says, "It was a great honour to win the pitch to supply Jazz World. We had to design a flexible rig that would accommodate a wide variety of top quality international artists and the creative requirements of an array of visiting LDs. We chose the best equipment for the job which was Robe moving lights."

He adds that with the notoriously unpredictable nature of the Glastonbury weather, they also wanted really robust and reliable lights that would withstand the elements.

Pete Wa

Details

14 March 2016