NEWS PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS Video Projection Lights Up Rockestra Charity Event in Malta continued from page 41 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 en<strong>com</strong>passed 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 continued from page 41 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 <strong>com</strong>pany, which will use the displays for a variety of off-season events. “When you <strong>com</strong>bine the biggest name in football with the biggest rental and staging <strong>com</strong>pany 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 ac<strong>com</strong>panied by a visual road trip across America. continued from page 41 “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 <strong>com</strong>ing 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 <strong>com</strong>pletely 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 <strong>com</strong>panies 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 <strong>com</strong>pany 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. Ad info:http:// www.plsn.<strong>com</strong>/instant-info The Honda motorcycle stand featured Lighthouse R4-S panels provided by JM Rental Ltd. 42 <strong>PLSN</strong> OCTOBER 2009
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