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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Dallas, the hit US drama is coming to Channel 5. To give this big signing the launch it deserves, Chris Pleydell created a true Texan party; complete with cow boys & girls, bulls (real and inflatable bucking), hay and hoedowns. XL Video supplied projection, LED and cameras for the event and brought in Basic Monkey to supply our Catalyst media servers and produce ...

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Chris Saunders, of Ogle Hog Limited, called upon Basic Monkey to provide Catalyst playback facilities for this years Brit awards at the O2. Ogle Hog supply and manage creative LED and relay screens for the event. Basic Monkey’s dual touring Catalyst system was used to play back content for the 7x different LED surfaces. 3x F11 closedown screens on automated ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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I’m currently working on a new project with Visible Partnership involving some innovative graphics. We’re providing our top Catalyst system along with all relevant bits and most importantly support to help realise the creative designs. Watch this ...

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Tonight marks the end of a very busy week for James with XL Video at the Clothes Show Live event in Hall 9 at the NEC. The show this year was based around “A Night at the Movies” theme, with each act of the show as a different genre of film. Opening with a Mission Impossible sequence which rolls into James Bond, the show goes ...

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