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Lighting designer Nick Jevons of Electric Fly Productions used 60 James Thomas Pixelline 1044 battens to produce mind-boggling video effects on his visual design for BBC Radio One's "One Big Weekend" event.
For the band day - featuring Joss Stone, Razorlight, The Lost Prophets, Goldie Looking Chain and a host of others - Jevons positioned 60 Pixellines in batches of 5 across his lighting rig. They were also arranged to bring a sense of depth to the set. This allowed Jevons to recreate spectacular effects across the battens - which effectively acted as a large, "stretched" low-resolution video screen.
Similar effects were achieved with Massive Attack's summer concert at the Bristol Harbourside Amphitheatre.
Lighting designers Andy Hurst and Vince Foster came up with the concept of a super low-resolution horizontal wall of Pixellines -151 pixels wide by 161 high - with gaps between the units.
In practical terms, the wall consisted of four custom banks of 8 Pixellines each, with a Pixelline width space in between each batten.
Highlighting the band in silhouette, the Pixelline wall acted as a emotive information carrier and a dynamic, mega-bright, light-surface for largely video originated content. |
