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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Basic Monkey have supplied our laptop based Catalyst media server and Jands Vista lighting console to Lightech for a rather special private party in West Cheshire. The event, organised by Tent & Garden, demanded the best in lighting creativity for a marquee and so Lightech specified a ColorWeb HiRes backdrop. Behind this were Mac550 moving lights, LED fixtures ...

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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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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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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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It’s the first time in Dubai for James and Basic Monkey, accompanying Leftfield for their set at the Sandance Festival, Palm Jumeirah. There aren’t many festivals in such unique locations as this one; at the tip of the man-made peninsula, shaped like a palm tree. The stage is set on the beach with the main hotel in the background and the Dubai skyline in ...

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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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Following on from a successful show at Sziget festival, Leftfield asked Basic Monkey to supply video playback for their set at Freeform Festival in Warsaw. The show was in a warehouse building with windows that were close to shattering with the incredible bass produced by the sound system. Using our laptop Catalyst system, James fed the festival provided screens, ...

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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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