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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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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Unilever wanted to make a big impact with this event so CSP designed an 18m x 4.8m widescreen set and asked Basic Monkey to design and supply the video system to make best use of it. Tim from XL Video managed the event on our behalf and implemented the system of 3x cameras, 4x channel HD-PPU, 3x Digital Projection machines and distribution. We provided our ...

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For this year’s Unilever Christmas party, the theme was ’20s Prohibition’ so it wouldn’t be appropriate to use LED screen as the main feature as last year. Instead CSP designed an ornate set, perfectly suited to the theme. James was asked to design and operate the lighting with equipment provided by CSP, including Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300s, ...

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Today, James is in Hanover for CSP AV to rig and light an exhibition stand as part of the big commercial vehicle show at the Hanover Messe. Due to the limited availability of rigging points, truss bridles were used to get the grid as wide as possible over the stand area. Since the rig will be in place for 4 weeks, budgets are tight and as such ...

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This week saw James at Deeside College in Flintshire for their annual student awards show, produced as always by CSP Audio Visual. All equipment was provided by CSP, apart from our own Catalyst media server and Jands Vista lighting console. The lighting rig was designed by Steve from CSP and operated by James. The set backdrop was 11m x 4m of ...

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Based on the success of the Catalyst and Barco iLite 12 combination at Paul Hogarth’s birthday party, James was asked by CSP to reproduce the spaced screen effect for Unilever’s Christmas party in a marquee at Chester Rugby Club. The event had a strong Hollywood/Oscars theme with lighting designed and implemented by James to enhance ...

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Basic Monkey has been asked to provide Barco iLite12 screens and a Catalyst media server for Unilever’s Christmas party. Steven Williams from CSP saw the photos from Paul Hogarth’s birthday party and suggested to Unilever that they use the same system. A few design ideas were put forward but they’ve decided to go for the same layout of 5 columns of ...

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