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Video Projection Lights Up Rockestra Charity Event in Malta
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several local artists including The Riffs,
Pawlu Borg Bonaci, Neville Refalo, Daniel
Cauchi and Jotham Saliba of Scream Daisy.
“It was a great honor to be asked back
to Malta to work on this show,” said Ashton.
“I mean, I couldn’t really say ‘no’ to the
president! With so many musical genres
and eras encompassed in the concert, it
was also a really exciting and fun challenge
to produce the two hours worth of
projection artwork.”
Outside Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Eight
Temporary Video Displays
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broadcasts of each game from Sony HD
production equipment. The displays
also show crowd prompts, live scores,
standings updates and a variety of other
promotional content during pre-game,
in-game and post-game activities.
“The Cowboys have a tradition of
providing one of the best game-day experiences
in football,” said Myron Linde,
Daktronics mobile and modular sales
manager. “We are pleased to be working
with the Cowboys, Sony and GoVision to
help usher in an exciting new chapter in
that tradition.”
As a fully portable video solution,
the displays give the Dallas Cowboys
the flexibility to quickly disassemble
E/T/C London also supplied all the
equipment and crew to make the projections
happen, which were beamed onto a
20 by 16 meter upstage white screen behind
the orchestra.
Two front-projected Christie 18K machines
were overlaid to ensure a bright image, with
control via E/T/C’s OnlyView control system. All
the video content was stored on the OnlyView
Servers, and programmed in OnlyView and After
Effects by Richard Porter and Karen Monid,
with Monid running the show.
the displays at the end of the season to
partner with GoVision, a Texas-based audiovisual
rental company, which will use
the displays for a variety of off-season
events.
“When you combine the biggest
name in football with the biggest rental
and staging company in Texas, it’s always
a win-win situation,” said Chris Curtis,
president of GoVision. “The flexibility
of these panels will allow us to showcase
the Cowboys displays at PGA tournaments,
music festivals and a variety of
big events this offseason.”
The new displays made their NFL
debut at the Cowboy’s home opener on
Sept. 20 against the New York Giants.
The E/T/C team created the artwork
under Ashton’s direction. Each song had
its own individually-styled video content.
The evening included plenty of 1970 retro
moments to match the Led Zeppelin/Deep
Purple/Eagles era music. The Deep Purple
section featured an Egyptian theme with pyramid
references. The crew created a Venetian
dream sequence for “Bohemian Rhapsody”
and a fantasy theatre look for Queen’s “Barcelona.”
“Hotel California” was accompanied by a
visual road trip across America.
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“On the current Depeche Mode tour
there’s a half-sphere of Barco MiTrix that
we engineered specifically for the tour,
and all the content works with it,” Mercer
said. “There are some very clever things
that can be done when you’ve got really
creative designers driving the content.
“We have these LED discs that are eight
feet in diameter out on Blink 182 at the moment,”
Mercer added. “These have been used
in Europe previously, but have never been
seen over here.
“We are really pushing creative shapes
and solutions that are ready to go, using certain
LED technologies and coming up with
some creative ways of using them,” Mercer
said. “We want to have things that designers,
at short notice, can incorporate, and that are
designed to break down, pack up and tour
Apart from the sheer volume and diversity
of content needing to be created
for a two hour continuous show, Ashton
said the other feature that made this project
stand out was its flat surface. More
used to projection onto building, objects,
mountains and other miscellaneous surfaces
and taking into account existing and
intricate architecture and form, this time
he had a completely blank, flat, white canvas
on which to work.
XL Video Aims Beyond the
Status Quo with Video Visuals
properly. I think that’s what we’re very good
at and we’re putting resources into that.”
As one of only a few companies in the
video projection business with “premises,
staff and equipment” on both sides of the
Atlantic, XL Video hopes to expand its appeal
to clients who want “to deal with one
company globally,” and “because of the way
the dollar has been against European currencies,
it’s very attractive for Americanmanaged
artists to do that kind of a deal,”
Mercer added.
XL Video’s activities in the U.S. have
included support for the 1996 Summer
Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. and this year’s
concert touring acts include Jay-Z, U2,
Depeche Mode, Coldplay, Kings of Leon,
Pink, Blink 182, Il Divo and the Ting
Tings.
Bangkok International
Motor Show Gets LED
Visual Support
BANGKOK — Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi and
Suzuki relied upon video visuals to attract attention
to their stands and products at the 12-day
Bangkok International Motor Show. Working
with the show’s contractor, PM Center Co., Ltd.,
JM Rental Ltd. provided a total five screens, all
made with Lighthouse LED panels.
The Honda motorcycles, Mitsubishi and
Suzuki stands all featured R4-S 4mm pixel pitch
screens configured in eight-by-eight, five-by-five
and six-by-six panel configurations, respectively
(for LED screen sizes of 5.12 meters by 3.84 meters,
3.2 meters by 2.4 meters and 3.84 meters by
2.88 meters).
The stands for Honda cars and Nissan made
use of R6-S 6mm pixel pitch screens, sized in sixby-six
and 10-by-five panel configurations (for
LED screen sizes of 3.84 meters by 2.88 meters
and 6.4 meters by 2.4 meters).
The event drew 130 exhibitors from 111
countries and 1.6 million attendees.
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The Honda motorcycle stand featured Lighthouse
R4-S panels provided by JM Rental Ltd.
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