For the sixth straight year, the AVI-SPL Creative Show Services team will provide all video and lighting for the United Way Halftime show during the Detroit Lions/ Green Bay Packers Thanksgiving Day game. The show features a performance by Nickelback.

Check out the rendering below for an idea of what to expect. The design includes a low-resolution 40mm LED screen for the set and high-resolution 15mm LED for the main screen. We’ll be creating video to play back through the 2 Hippotizer media servers, and running all of the technology. For lighting, we have tons of LED colorblaze strips and 80 moving lights! It may be a short performance, but it includes some of the latest technologies being used not only in entertainment, but in corporate events as well. Impress your friends, tell them what they’re going to see before they see it!

We hope you enjoy the show!

AVI-SPL Creative Show Services (CS²) provided a custom projection, lighting and audio system for Pavilion XXVI at the Tampa Museum of Art. Multiple large format projection surfaces were fitted exactly to room dimensions, creating a digital environment that surrounded the attendees. Matrix stereo feeds and custom LED lighting complimented the videos displayed on each screen.

The concept was to immerse attendees in a garden from another world. CS² designed a display system to support video artist Marc Dahl’s “Fauxments.” Fauxments are a term coined by Marc, meaning photographed moments. Each Fauxment is a combination of still photography and live video. These in particular were created by Marc with garden subject matter. One Fauxment displays a typical garden statue with a never ending stream of water. Another Fauxment displays a book whose pages ruffle every so often in the wind. Each Fauxment was a different view of the same garden, together making a panoramic environment for museum visitors.

Click here to view more photos of this event.

Several technical hurdles had to be overcome to achieve the desired look of this event. Video displays were not in typical ratios of 4:3, 16:9 or even 16:10. Each of the six surfaces had to be custom tailored with four of them receiving vertically mounted projection. Content was run from six individual Apple iMac Playback Pro devices. Each Playback Pro served a separate screen with picture and audio, for a total of with six standalone projection surfaces.

Audio was a particular concern because each projection surface required individual stereo playback. Mixing was handled by a Yamaha LS9 that allowed for a matrix of 16 inputs and 14 outputs. “Sound engineer Mario Rivera choose 12 Meyer UPM active monitors because of their low profile and ability to focus sound to a specific area,” explained Lead Audio Technician Chris Paraig. Audio needed to truly represent a stereo field but not overlap with the display right next to it.

Colorblast LED lights were programmed to compliment the video, casting a vivid but subtle hue over the adjacent museum surfaces. During video passages that had blue accents, the LED lights responded with a spot-on representation of that color. This programming was accomplished by a HOG 500 console with multiple looks that changed in tandem with the video. The overall experience was amazing, capturing the imagination of the attendees. Several museum patrons agreed that this was the best installation to date. This event showcased a true artistic marriage of motion graphics and display technology that only CS² could accomplish.

Click here to view a brief video  from artist Marc Dahl’s Pavilion >>