The latest news from NYXdesign. A design partnership between Abigail Rosen Holmes, Brian Gale and Emanuel Treeson
What better way to celebrate Independence Day than with the awesome music of The Roots. The Philly 4th of July Jam, broadcast on VH1 and directed by Alex Coletti;, also featured Nicki Minaj, Ed Sheeran, Jennifer Hudson and Aloe Blacc. And fireworks, of course.
This was Abbey's fifth year lighting the show for producers GeeMirkin Production and ESM.
The Kennedy Center presented a free concert featuring John Legend with inspiring acts who made their fame through YouTube: Lindsey Stirling, Les Twins, Playing for Change, Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox, and Mike Relm.
The show was produced by Salli Frattini and Sunset Lane Entertainment, and directed by John Gonzalez. Abbey was happy to be asked to work with this great team again, and to have another opportunity to meld her lighting with the awesome video from Obscura Digital.
A major feature of this year's show was a design that brought the show more out into the audience. Three satellite stages with scenic LED backing screens were place out onto the main floor of the Galen Arena. Using the whole floor of the arena brought the presenters and the game demos closer to the audience and created a more intimate look on camera.
This year's set featured an ultra aspect ratio screen with track masking elements to close it down when needed. This created many technical challenges. We chose to solve them by attached integral lighting to the scenic elements so their lighting quality traveled with them as they moved. It also allowed the programming of the show to be agnostic from the position of the scenic walls. If the creative team chose to change the placement of a tracking cue it did not requite a refocus on our part
Erin Hearne Williams, Zed's Creative Director for the show also wanted to immerse the audience more into the show and have that be reflected on the broadcast. She added LED bracelets from Pixmob that could be controlled as part of our lighting system. This opened up a whole new world of visual effect that turned the audience into surrounding backdrop for so many of the camera shots seen at home.
This year both Manny and Brian also designed the Xbox Showcase. The location is always an iconic downtown venue. This year was no exception and the event took place at the recently renovated Ace Theater. Its rich architecture, painted in the brand colors of Xbox become a photogenic backdrop for debut of game play from so many of the new titles coming out this year.
Working for producer Original Media, Abbey was excited for the opportunity to work with director Sharif Hamza on the filming of three music video for Vogue, as a part of their CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund 10th Anniversary Special
The three videos feature the artists Tori Kelly, MR MR and Aluna George, wearing the fashions of former CFDA Awards winners Rag and Bone, Band of Outsiders, and Alexander Wang.
Abbey just got done lighting the YouTube Play project at the Guggenheim. This was a challenging show based around an immersive video environment designed by Anton Goss and Obscura Digital. Abbey needed to create a balanced design for the broadcast audience which highlighted the projection while showcasing the live performers.
Check out the video from the Performance.
