The first live, scripted, one-take music video shoot. On April 5th, 2011, it aired live on several websites as the first event of its type. The lighting is some of the most technical and creative around. Utilizing LEDs to display video and wireless LED costumes, this video has a unique art-deco meets Tron look.
Lighting Designer: Matt Ardine
Lighting Console Programmer: David Kane
Stage: Line 204
4 – Varilite VL3500 Profile
96 – 2.4kw Dimmers
6 – 12kw dimmers
4 – Color Kinetics Color Blaze 72
20 – Color Kinetics iColor Flex String
24 – Color Kinetics Color Blasts
4 – illuminate LED Suits
40 – Source 4
2 – Mole 5k Babys w/ Chimeras
4 – Twinspins
2 – 4’ 4 Bank Kinos w/ DMXControlETC Eos
ETC Ion
Madrix Media Server
2 – ETC Gateways
ETC Show Control Gateway
Wireless Router
Netgear 8 Port Gigabit Switch, Unmanaged
Tablet PC & iPhones as Remotes
The whole music video is live switched and live to air. In the design of the control network, I knew that there needed to be backups. We used an ETC Eos as the main console and an ETC Ion as the backup. The DMX was output from two seperate gateways. There were five universes of lights programmed from the console. The console was also controlling the Madrix media server using Artnet. Madrix was pixelmapping 16 universes of iColor Flex pixel strings for the cloud tunnel in the opening shot. The Color Kinetics Powersupply was controlled via ethernet from the Madrix using the KiNet protocol.
The console used LTC timecode to stay insync with projection and sound. Sound playback gave us an XLR feed that was input into an ETC show control gateway and sent through ETCNet3 into the console.
