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XL Kicks off at The O2
XL Video UK – working for show producers Sledge via Live Nation – supplied 70 square metres (350 tiles) of centre stage Barco I-12 hi res LED screen, two 15.5 square metre Hibino Chromatek 6mm Black Face LED flanking screens and a full camera/PPU package for The O2’s staff opening party.
The event kicked off the high profile venue’s new life as a major UK concert venue in grand style – with stonking performances by Basement Jaxx, the Kaiser Chiefs and Tom Jones. The show was presented by Dermot O’Leary, and Peter Kay also supplied some great comic moments.
Packed close to its 23,000 capacity, guests were treated to a five-camera IMAG show directed by Kevin Watts. The four manned Sony D50 cameras were positioned one at FOH, two left and right high up in the bleachers either side and one hand-held onstage. The fifth camera was a hot-head rigged to a circular truss hung over the front of the stage.
IMAG was fed to the side screens, while the onstage screen was fed by content from a Catalyst V4 digital media server programmed and operated by Simon Pugsley using a Hog iPC console. He worked closely with lighting designer Al Gurdon in devising different video looks that matched and complemented the lighting.
Watts cut the IMAG mix on one of XL’s Kayak 2ME vision mixers, and the show was also recorded.
XL’s Project Manager was Tim Riley, and their other crew members in addition to Watts and Pugsley) were LED techs Graham Sharp and Yves van Acker, and engineer Dean Ruffy … plus the four camera operators.
The biggest challenge according to Riley was the three-hour get-out window they had between the end of the concert and the get-in for Bon Jovi’s production video the next day – which was the first public concert staged in the Arena. XL’s crew rose to the occasion, getting everything cleared and out of the building in two and a half hours – while the lighting (PRG) and sound (Clair Bros) rigs – which were both also utilised for Bon Jovi – stayed in.
Steve Allen was the show’s production manager for Live Nation and Nic Cooper was Sledge’s overall event producer.
13th July 2007
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