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Creative Technology Use Watchout with Rod Stewart
Veteran singer Rod Stewart hit the road this spring to commence a world tour in support of his double platinum release, The Great American Songbook: Volume II. The tour, which began in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl., will continue through US and Canadian arenas through the end of August before moving overseas.
The set list features songs off his current collection such as Someone To Watch Over Me and As Time Goes By, as well as mega hits from the rock giant’s long career, including Maggie May, Tonight’s The Night and Forever Young.
The show is presented in two parts. It opens to basic rock and roll set, with Rod and band performing high-energy songs from years past. For the second half of the show, the stage is transformed to represent a vintage music hall, complete with heavy gold drapes and back-up orchestra. Here the audience is treated to several highlights off The Great American Songbook: Vol. II.
To enhance the spectacular performance, international staging solutions provider Creative Technology is supplying large screen, high-resolution projection technology, including Watchout, Dataton’s multi-display production system. The backdrop for the main stage consists of a single 20ft x 25ft rear projection screen flanked by two 15ft x 20ft (portrait), rearpro screens — all supported by five Digital Projection 28sx projectors. Two 12ft x 16ft rearpro I-Mag screens are supported by three Christie X10 projectors, with all playback through Watchout.
“To my knowledge, this is one of the first rock and roll tour that has utilised sophisticated corporate audio visual technology to maximise resolution, and thus increase picture quality,” stated David Crump, business development director for Avesco plc, parent company of Creative Technology. “With Watchout we are able to keep most of the imagery at 1024 x 768 right through the signal path.”
18th May 2004
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