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Entrusted with generating all the creatives (and edits), Jools Hogg needed no further persuasion. In conjunction with the band he made a series of ambient graphics, including fire lapping over girls and a street map appropriate to the town in which the show was playing (introduced fittingly during the song Street Map). At the Carling Apollo, for instance, a local map of Hammersmith was displayed.*
“I had known about the DVJ-X1 for a while,” stated Jools. “On checking its capabilities, I knew it could be used differently than the way a VJ would in a nightclub. I don’t generally get the opportunity to scratch on tour, and I must say the DVJ-X1 felt very natural and was easy to use.”
However he admitted that performing live had presented its own set of challenges. “I used some Chromakey effects and had to watch carefully for any lagging or leading as the tempo changed from night to night — and adjust the pitch on the DVJ accordingly.”
The DVJ-X1 was originally designed to allow VJs (and vision mixers) to manipulate DVD visuals in exactly the same way as music can be manipulated on Pioneer’s classic CDJ-1000. Thus real-time digital video scratches, loops and instant cues are all possible.
The images on tour accompanied six numbers, and were launched onto a vast 40ft x 22ft white field projection cloth via a Panasonic vision mixer. “The cloth held the projection well and it was reassuring that there was no drift of the image off the sides,” observed Jools.
“Lighting and video are all part of one art department on tour now, and products like the DVJ-X1 are absolutely the way forward.”
And Pod Bluman agrees. As result of this groundbreaking tour he predicts a huge demand from forthcoming tours as an alternative to using a media server.
* For the second night at Carling Apollo Hammersmith PSL drew deep into their inventory to produce a nine camera PPU — at the request of the band, who wanted an archive of the show. The equipment included two long-lens cameras at FOH, a handheld on stage, two further cameras in the pits and some dispersed minicams.
11th November 2005
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