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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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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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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James has been at Creamfields near Warrington this weekend, providing media server support for XL Video. XL provide LED screens for the many dance tents on site, and also provide PPU, cameras and LED screens for the two main stages. This year, to add flexibility, each of the main stages had a Catalyst media server for advertisements. These were fed in to Barco ...

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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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This summer, for the Euro 2012 football tournament, Castrol have requested something special to entertain their VIP guests and Flourish are planning to achieve that with some real flair! I’m writing this on the plane, returning from my first visit to Ukraine having met with some old and new faces to discuss the technicalities of producing such an event in a ...

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James has been at Riverside studios for the past three days to program the Catalyst media servers for XL Video on “Open the Other End” which is to run at the venue for the next few weeks. The show uses projection on a variety of staggered surfaces including black gauze, a sliding flat panel, a wood veneer wall and white cyc. Using two Panasonic projectors ...

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