James is currently in New York City with XL Video on the film set for an big, upcoming movie. XL Video have been supplying a big section of FX11 LED screen as a lighting effect to the production on the request of the DoP. The advantages of the screen as a lighting effect include the flexibility of colour, intensity and the even location of light over a large area. ...

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This weekend I’m on home turf at the Warehouse Project in Manchester, working for XL Video to add some Versatubes to the venue for VisionQuest’s night. VisionQuest have a worldwide visual identity which involves Versatube arches down the room with custom content mapped to them. I was on site to help rig and dismantle the LED, and to be on standby with a ...

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For this year’s Brit Awards, James worked with the team from XL Video, managed by Paul Wood and lead by Paul Maddock-Jones, to rig the many varieties of LED screen. James primarily worked on the massive 5m x 10m 6mm portrait screen, the Barco NX-6 pinball screen and the Lighthouse R7 side screens with Joe Makein and Jolyon Olivier. The screens: Pixled F11 ...

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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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This year’s Clothes Show theme was “Department Store” with lighting designed by Nigel Catmur and video content designed by Colin Rozee. As ever, the dancers and models performed an amazing show to up-beat music, re-enforced with lots of lights and video. There was also a live performance from Kimberly Wyatt. The show was broken into sections as ...

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Today was the last in a 5 day run for the Gadget Show Live ‘Super Theatre’, concluding what has been a busy and interesting show. Following on from last years success, Tim Riley at XL Video was asked to provide Barco NX-6 screens in the auditorium for camera relay and a large Pixled F-30 screen as a set centrepiece. This was all ...

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For two days this week, James has been in Wakefield at Litestructures’ “LS-Live” venue to set-up and help program the Catalyst systems that will be touring with McFly for the next 3 weeks. XL Video are providing the systems along with the F11 back and riser screens and MiSTRIP stage. James has been working closely with Dan from ...

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This week saw James at the NEC in Birmingham for the annual Autosport Live show. In the Fifth Gear Live Action Arena XL Video provided 2x large Lighthouse R7 screens and 9x pillars of PixLed F-30. These were all driven by Basic Monkey’s own ‘Gorilla’ Catalyst system and Jands Vista S3 running the newly developed software, ‘Byron’. The ...

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