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Stage Electrics recently managed the full technical requirements of the Conservative Party’s campaign launches for the European Parliament and the local council elections. The two launches, held in two very different venues, were given a unified look, co-ordinated by Stage Electrics’ Stuart Miller, who handled the account for CCO Conferences.
For the European election launch Stage Electrics provided a full set that filled the space normally occupied by the ‘Stars In Their Eyes’ set in Studio 12 at Granada TV Studios. Placed in front of 100m of white cyclorama, the opaque polycarbonate set was applied to a white steel frame grid of squares. Two large projection screens were incorporated into the set with the projection also provided by the company. The huge stage consisted of four varyiable-height linked circular platforms which ranged from 2m to 6m in diameter. The set was constructed in short order by the Stage Electrics scenic workshop and managed by scenic project manager, Mark Trutwein. Two custom built acrylic lecterns were also provided with internal lighting and these are now touring the country for the huge number of presentations occurring throughout the election campaign.
Tim Routledge, in-house lighting designer and project manager, provided the lighting design for both the events and utilised Thomas Pixelline LED Batterns and MAC 600’s to backlight the polycarbonate. He said: “The set material is ideal for backlighting and takes colour fantastically, I have been able to provide a two-tone look for the set which changes throughout the event. This was a live TV event broadcast on three news channels in the UK simultaneously; and being involved in the production was extremely exciting and gave the whole Stage Electrics team a great buzz.”
3sixtymedia, the onsite facilities department at Granada Studios, provided a very flexible range of resources for the event and were responsible for feeding the programme to the waiting media.
A week later the Local Election launch was held at the Olympian Suite at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. A very different venue with a room height of only 2.7m required a chopped down version of the set and replacement of the projection screens with 60” Plasma screens around the room. The room also were divided into a main presentation area and a reception/holding area. Temporary walls, doors and press platforms were all created by the scenic workshop at the company’s headquarters in Bristol, Stuart Miller and Tim Routledge again co-ordinating the technical and creative design requirements. PA, Live Cameras, Vision mixing, Captions, Autocue and direction were all also supplied from the company’s growing Audio-Visual department. And again the event was broadcast across the networks both live and featured in the day’s news bulletins.
28th May 2004
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