James has been on site at Disneyland, Paris with XL Video for a European conference, produced by ADM Productions of New York. Along with operating the show using Barco Encore, James designed the video control system, providing schematics and patch information to XL Video and ADM. The system involved 6x projection outputs, each independently driven with access to 4x ...

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US production company Cramer have put together Zurich Insurance’s conference in Madrid, with equipment and crew provided by XL Video. Basic Monkey provided James to XL as video technician to implement Nathan from Cramer’s system requirements. This was based around Barco ScreenPro IIs and various matrices, taking in sources from laptops, Turbos and a live ...

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Mission, Nokia’s marketing agency, came to ML Studio to create a spectacular launch party for the new Nokia Lumia 920 based on the concept “Don’t be afraid of the dark”. ML’s answer was to take a quiet London street and turn it into an immersive lighting, video and sound experience for the invited guests. Basic Monkey are very proud to ...

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Proctor & Gamble brought The Wella International Trend Vision Award to Madrid this year and again drawn on the expertise of Jack Morton Worldwide to make the event the worldwide spectacle that it has become. The theme was ‘Sound of Colour’ and is based around the sounds we associate with the colours that we see. Guests and competitors were all asked ...

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Marks and Spencer are launching a new personal bank account service and as part of this launch they held an internal event at their offices in Chester. To make the event stand out in the company’s bright atrium, CSP offered a large LED screen, built into a set. Basic Monkey supplied a 2.7m x 6m 11mm LED screen, driven by our dual Catalyst media server rack. The ...

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For a few invited guests, the 2012 Olympic experience was made extra special when they were treated to a culinary and visual feast at the Grosvenor Hotel. The guests walked into the small ballroom at the Grosvenor, to be greeted by a large banquet table, adorned with gold chargers and stunning flower displays. The walls of the room were projected with lifelike images ...

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Following on from the success of Unilever’s conference at the ExCeL centre in London earlier this year, Steven Williams at CSP asked Basic Monkey to design and supply video for Unite, the Union’s rule conference at the ACC in Liverpool. Irene Reed from Frameworks Events produced the event and asked long standing partner CSP to realise the technical ...

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After three weeks, three cities and 64 shows, the new Range Rover Evoque has been well and truly launched to the public. Starting in Earl’s Court, London, then to the NEC in Birmingham and finishing at the GMEX in Manchester, the show was designed to cause hysteria amongst the invited guests with fast paced music, energetic dancers and ...

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This week sees James in Earls Court for the first leg of a three week tour to release the new Range Rover ‘Evoque’. The launch will be one of the most adventurous ever seen with a huge amount of video, lighting and automation. James is looking after the video aspects of the event for Tim Riley at XL Video, utilising 4x Catalyst media ...

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Today was the second part of Standard Life’s new “LifeLens” product launch produced by Jack Morton Worldwide. Replicating last month’s event, James installed and operated XL Video’s equipment along with Alex Roberts. For this event, Basic Monkey supplied one of the two Catalyst systems required along with 2x Matrox ...

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