TPi AWARDS 2009: The Production
Below: Bill Wyman and Yamaha’s Karl Christmas present ‘Funky’ Claude Nobs with his Lifetime Contribution Award.
sequences, and edited all of the supplied video Hippo Stage in the entrance corridor.
footage, including Kylie’s concert clips and Our original video systems supplier from
acceptance speech (provided by Terry Blamey 2002 and 2003, XL Video made a welcome
Management). They also created the graphics return to the ranks this year and delighted
loop seen on the entrance corridor plasma. James Cobb with its quality of service and
Green Hippo’s main involvement was in the the helpful attitude of its crew, led by project
ceremony itself. Digital Insanity’s content was manager Steve Greetham.
played out from Hippotizer HD server (with The main central screen deployed by XL
back-up) running in dual mode, effectively as was a 10m wide x 5m high, 11mm pixel pitch
two machines in one, with one half feeding the S-LED screen from Korean manufacturer Basic
main screen content while the other handled Tech, the quality of which surpassed anything
the graphics for the LiteConsole’s front plasma previously seen at our event. Tech’d by Alain
[see later note]. Derney and Joe Makein, this served as the main
Nigel Sadler programmed and operated the surface for the nominations/winners graphics
Hippo HD and Simon Harris programmed the and video clips that were inserted into the
Above: Live Nation COO John Probyn receives The Editor’s Award from Mark ‘Total M.C.’ Cunningham; James Cobb, our PM.
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