The technical production and set design was by Studio 9 Conference Services. It featured a home scene, an office scene and three 3 x 5 metre pods, initially screened off, for a reveal. Crooks called the lightshow which was operated using LWT’s in-house Galaxy lighting desk.The format followed a technical briefing for HP staff, the product reveal, speeches and then a lively catwalk show. Stage Light also provided a small generic rig and complimentary lighting for HP’s two days of post-show technical briefings, staged at The Works photographic studios in Fulham.
For the Frankfurt Motor Show Awards, SLD supplied LD Ewan Cameron, plus equipment, to light the ceremony for production company Mainframe. Cameron produced a jazzy, colourful design utilizing a wide assortment of fixtures including Clay Paky Mini Scans and Stage Colors, Source Fours and Pars. Control was from an Avolites Pearl console and Celco dimmers.
For computer company Cogent, SLD produced a creative lighting design, crew and equipment for their stand at DSEI - a large military and defence exhibition in the Docklands’ Excel Arena. Lighting included four Clay Paky Stage Scans, and the show was programmed using a LightProcessor QCommander desk.
Finally, SLD worked with designers Dave Hobday Design to light the Logitec stand at this year’s ECTS show - also at the Docklands' Excel Arena - serving the computer games market. The rig was designed and installed for SLD by John O’Connell, featuring lots of Par cans and Pulsar control to provide cross-fading ambient washes over the stand, and to highlight the various graphic displays.
