Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2021
The University of the Sunshine Coast has a new state-of-the-art facility to inspire the study of Creative Industries and enliven the campus as a venue for regular performances by musicians and actors. The building features professional-quality recording and video studios, a black box theatre production space, and Queensland’s first MIT Fab Lab Maker Space. All areas of the building are …
Brisbane based professional audio, lighting, backline and staging company IJS Productions has increased its inventory with the purchase of an MA Lighting grandMA3 light, 10 x ShowPRO Colliders and 24 x Martin VDO Atomic Dots. “We like the MA3 platform, as do our clients, and it’s the most popular lighting control in the business … so it was a no …
In between lockdowns, Brad Hurle of Diverse Audio Visual Events (DAVE) has been able to give his ShowPRO Pluto 350 Spots a good run for their money on a few music video clips. The ShowPRO Pluto 350 is a professional LED moving head spot with a 5°-35°electronic zoom system and CMY colour mixing. “The Pluto 350s have simply been bloody …
The theatrical adaptation of Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe recently premiered at QPAC’s Playhouse Theatre where lighting designer Ben Hughes was fortunate to be one of the first lighting designers to utilise their new lighting equipment. Instead of having to wrangle several hundred classic ETC S4 and Selecon Pacific profiles, Ben had 76 Prolight ECLIPSE CT+ LED 15/30° in most …
Some of Broken Hill’s key locations have been lit up as part of Australia’s Heritage Perfectly Highlighted project. The project involves permanent coloured lighting and projection installations at the Town Hall Facade, Civic Centre, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Town Square and Sturt Park. Broken Hill Mayor Darriea Turley said the installations would add a new level of vibrancy across …
Australian fashion house Aje launched their Resort 2022 collection ‘Scent of Summer’ at The Calyx located in the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney. Staged by Production Technologies and lit by one of Australia’s most sought after lighting designers Paul Collison, the event proved that Prolights EclPanels don’t just belong in a studio! Paul is a big fan of the Prolight …
Life Church engaged Christchurch-based Technical Event Solutions Limited to consult, design and supply a fully overhauled production setup for their new QE2 Campus. The building was built post-earthquake and had previously been operated by another church group, and Life Church wished to start afresh with a production set-up that would provide continuity with their other campus. The system also had …
2021 was the year that Burwood Girls High School in Sydney decided to upgrade their theatre’s sound and lighting system under the professional eye of Live Event Services. Unfortunately, no sooner had the install been almost completed, Covid-19 shut down all of the city’s schools. “The school contacted us after we were recommended to them by another school we had …
Kings Park is one of the world’s largest and most beautiful inner-city parks with sweeping views of the Swan and Canning Rivers, the city skyline and the Darling Ranges to the east. Fraser Avenue, the main entrance to Kings Park, is 485 metres long and lined with lemon scented gum trees end to end providing an impressive entrance statement. Thanks …
Sydney’s corporate event production specialists Sightline were early adopters of the Prolights EclPanel TWCJr, the compact 1×1 LED soft light that has taken the event industry by storm. “The fresnels in our studio were giving us too many unwanted shadows so we were looking for a replacement,” explained Steve Hill, Lighting Director at Sightline. “We had used Chameleon’s larger EclPanels …
