PSL's project manager Mark Solomons worked closely alongside lighting designer, 'Luton' (Pete Hosier) to embellish a stage format he had originally developed with the band Killing Joke. Catalyst V3.3 software was running from a G5 Mac, with custom interface - operated from a Hog 2 lighting desk - one hard drive running the OSX operating system, while the other handled the QuickTime video files. Catalyst was controlled independently," explained Solomons. "It used two discrete outputs - one for the outer set of drapes via the DP projectors, and the other for the second set of drapes, which received different feeds."
The third projector was fed by a For-A VPS-300 vision mixer, run off Doremi hard drives - all from PSL's inventory. "Because of the throw distance, and the fact that we had to cut through so much ambient light, we couldn't have used anything smaller than these 10,000 ANSI projectors," Mark continued.
PSL also fielded an experienced crew, with Julian Hogg mixing all the content, Simon Pugsley driving the Catalyst and Nick Hall the VT cues for an event which was filmed by ITV. Contracted by the event's production company, John O'Sullivan of Source Productions, PSL's ingenious content reinforcement helped to serve up a production which complemented headliners, Anthrax - as well as the supporting cast of Nightwish, Shadows Fall, Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium.
(Lee Baldock)
