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TPi AWARDS 2009: The Production
Opposite, from top left: Phill Jupitus salutes the winners... Kylie crew stalwarts Sean Fitzpatrick and Kevin
Hopgood, and Barco’s Mark Leahy; Timm Cleasby; Helen ‘Hels Bells’ Smith; Westfalen Sound’s Carl Cordier and
Christie’s Gavin Chatﬁeld; Richard Young & Gavin Chatﬁeld; Chris Martelly & Ian Spendlove of Showforce; Summit
Steel’s Jon Bray & Chris Walker; Gianluca Ganapini, a.k.a. Gana.
aforementioned ‘splat’ masks. PixelLine 1044s LED battens, as well as
This was augmented by left/right Supertruss and Minibeam trussing, rigging
projection screens (10.5’ x 6’) in 16:9 and hoists.
format, used mainly for live camera I- The event was a great showcase for
Mag and fed by two stacks of overlayed Barco/High End’s Showpix and Martin
Christie 20kW projectors. Pro’s MAC III. Barco’s Jens Hillenkotter ran
The standard XL PPU included a Grass 10 Showpix via a Whole Hog III with the
Valley Kayak switcher, and four Sony S5 new DMX Processor 8000, and six MAC
cameras were operated by Benji Rogers, IIIs (donated by David Stewart at Martin)
Dan Ormerod, Matt Doughty and Ron were run through the Pearl. Martin also
Conley. XL’s video engineer was Gerry donated an X-1 hazer.
Corrie and Bjorn Parry took charge of the Lasers made their début at this
projection. year’s TPi Awards show, reﬂecting the
technology’s recent ‘comeback’. Special
LIGHTING effects company Arcstream AV showcased
For the ﬁrst time, instead of going directly the newly-developed ARX Series laser
to a rental company for all our lighting system. Arcstream used six full colour
needs, we took on a lighting designer and lasers — four ARX 6.5W and two ARX
organised everything to his speciﬁcation. 1.6W — with Martin Kapp controlling the
Working under the auspices of his system via Pangolin.
company, Spirit Design, Martin Brennan Arcstream’s MD Neil Dickinson
took the bull by the horns and piloted commented: “The main challenge for us
the lighting from Spirit’s own Avolites was the cancellation of a site visit during
Pearl Expert console, while Neg Earth the previous week due to snow, meaning
Lights assisted with the supply of 18 1kW we weren’t able to be involved in the
Fresnels, two ETC Source Fours and 12 production process as much as we would
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