Basic Monkey has been asked to supply our new dual touring Catalyst system for Seal’s Summer European tour starting tomorrow. James will be accompanying the tour, looking after the system and interfacing with locally provided LED screens and projectors. The tour starts in Estonia, working back across Europe down towards Portugal with a few ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ITV’s National Movie Awards this year came from Wembley Arena where thousands of invited celebrities and guests were treated to performances from Take That, JLS and Eliza Doolittle. XL Video supplied projected side screens and a large rear projection screen integrated into the set and driven by 3x Barco FLM HD20s. James was on site to look ...

Tonight was the recording of Jason Manford’s new DVD, due out in November, at the MEN Arena in Manchester. XL Video supplied Pixled F-30 for Jason’s backdrop, driven by Catalyst. Using Catalyst’s frame blending and colour adjustment capabilities, a slow and subtle moving look was generated for the show with a more lively look ...

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 ...

The second part of our project with Visible Partnership saw James at Twickenham Rugby Stadium to shoot a viral advert for 188 Bet. Players from the London Wasps threw and kicked balls at a huge projected video game on the side of the stadium with the aim to hit ten dragons in the quickest time possible. The winner would then go on to try and kill the mother ...

The second part of our project with Visible Partnership involved shooting outdoors and so we decided to keep our precious equipment safe from the elements. With a few ratchet straps, carefully placed boxes and of course a camping chair, we had our first Catalyst control vehicle. There was plenty of room for our ‘Gorilla’ Catalyst ...

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 ...