James to operate Catalyst for Samsung in Seoul, Korea
Following on from the Samsung 'Corby' launch in Milan, Jack Morton Worldwide and the team are invited by Samsung to repeat the show in Seoul, Korea.
XL Video will be providing projection, video control and Catalyst along with James as Catalyst operator. Unfortunately Jonathan Bond isn't available for the event however with a week on site before show, James will have enough time to 'crunch' the content and program the show well before presenter rehearsal.
Basic Monkey will be providing a Jands Vista S3 lighting console and a high-spec MacPro with Catalyst as a content injection, video manipulation and audio playback machine.
This will be Basic Monkey's first event out of the EU and is very exciting. More news to follow!
St. Etienne at The Ritz, Manchester
Today James acted as rigger/technician for St. Etienne's show at Manchester's Ritz venue.
Having received sketch plans yesterday, James had 6x Robe ColorSpot 700 and 6x Robe ColorWash 700 moving lights, 2x Martin Atomic strobes, 8x James Thomas Pixellines, 6x 2lite molefays and 6x S4 19deg profiles to fit intro the notoriously tight venue. All equipment was provided along with James by HSL in Blackburn.
The moving lights were split between the floor, boxes, truss towers and a goalpost truss across the back on 2no Litech wind up stands. Matt Waterfield the LD arrived late morning and was happy with the deviations from plot made by James to fit into the venue. Room was made for the band's fastfold screens under the goalpost truss with a minimum of clearance.
Catalyst and LED screen for Paul Hogarth’s 50th
Basic Monkey Limited have been asked to provide LED screens in the style of Girls Aloud's current tour for successful developer Paul Hogarth's 50th birthday party.
Paul and Judith have enlisted Lightech Sound and Light to provide lighting and production management for the event, in a marquee at the family home near Holmes Chapel in Cheshire. They wanted something extra special to add to the event, which already has theming from RSVP, catering from With a Twist and photography by Martyn Hicks. Between the clients and Jonathan at Lightech, they decided on 5x columns of LED screen across the stage, spaced in the same fashion as Girls Aloud have used on their arena shows. Jonathan then asked Basic Monkey to provide a technical design and proposal.
James specified Barco iLite 12 from XL Video to produce the effect, supplied in touring frames and with ground stacking hardware. These are driven by Catalyst, supplied by Basic Monkey.
The screens on the main party night were left black and unused until the main DJ started with a grand entrance of dancing girls and pyrotechnics at 11pm to add a surprise to the event. After which a variety content from our huge library along with unique video chases and sound to video were used to make the DJ performance stand out. Since Lightech have asked us to control the lighting aswell, we were able to link the light show and video together to create a real nightclub experience. The videos and chases were matched to the music with constant programming and adjustment throughout the evening. We placed an additional 2x panels under the DJ table to show further videos and sound waveforms generated by Catalyst.
Response from the guests has been incredible, we believe that this is one of the first applications of touring screens on an event of this scale (150 guests).
The screens were used again on Sunday for a BBQ, with more sedate images to begin with, leading once again into flashy vibrant video to bring the party up. We also used live video fed from our Sony Z7 camera to entertain the children.
Catalyst and the lighting were operated using our Jands Vista S3 by James and David.
