Lighting & Video Companies
Upstaging & Nighthawk
Venue
Various (Tour)
Production Team
- Production Manager: LeShun Williams/360 Productions
- Visual Design: Wasted Potential
- Lighting Designers: Zach Berget, Jordan Noltner/Wasted Potential
- Lighting Account Rep: Matt Gohring/Upstaging
- Lighting Crew Chief: Ed Duda
- Lighting Techs: Kathryn Ploessl, Andrew Harvey, Chris Mudie, Mike Ponsiglione (Kinesys Operator)
- Video Account Rep: Todd LePere/Nighthawk
- Video Director: Adam Cline/ David Klann
- Video Engineer: Graham Holwill
- disguise Programmer/Operator: Collin Wilkey
- LED Tech/Camera Ops: Luis “Bong” Buno IV, Joe Johnston
- LED Tech: Gabe Vomfell
- Stage Manager: Patrick Taylor
Gear
Lighting:
- 2 MA Lighting grandMA2 full-size Lighting Console
- 5 MA Lighting grandMA NPU
- 116 ACME Gemini
- 94 ACME Solar Impulse
- 16 Elation Professional CUEPIX Blinder WW4
- 28 GLP JDC1 Hybrid Strobe
- 4 Master FX Mystic Hazer
- 10 HES FQ-100 Fogger
Video:
- 1 Nighthawk Video Custom Broadcast Flypack
- 1 Grass Valley Korona 2ME Switcher w/ XP Frame and Ross Routing & Ross/Kobalt Infrastructure
- 2 disguise GX2c Media Servers w/Notch built into a custom Nighthawk Rack
- 1,008 Saco A9-9mm LED Modules
- 1 Saco Nano Processing
- 4 Grass Valley LDX 150 Camera
- 1 Panasonic PTZ Robotic Camera
- 1 Marshall Mini POV Camera
- 1 Spy Camera
Tour Details:
Todd LePere, Owner and Sales Director, Nighthawk Video:
Todd LePere is an Owner and Sales Director for Nighthawk Video. Touring production company Wasted Potential approached Nighthawk along with Upstaging Lighting to offer a combined package for the Rod Wave Beautiful Mind Tour. The video and lighting production companies have their headquarters less than one mile apart. “With us being so close to Upstaging, this allows us the ability to advance design needs, integrate departments and prep seamlessly without any added costs,” LePere says. “Once the contract was awarded, we worked directly with LeShun Williams from 360 Productions who ran the production team. We coordinated the camera needs and locations based on the artists expectations. We were also able to set up the whole video and lighting rig at Upstaging prior to production tech rehearsals, so we were able to roll into rehearsals show ready.” LePere says this design allowed them to supply 100% of the video gear design with brand new equipment owned by Nighthawk. “We did not have to sub-rent any part of the video, so we had complete quality control over the execution of this video design from start to finish.”
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