LOS ANGELES — The 2012 Stand Up to Cancer Telethon (SU2C), which aired with minimal commercial interruption on 21 TV networks Sept. 7 including ABC, CBS, NBC, TBS, HBO and Fox, included projection support from Chaos Visual Productions. Donations raised by the telethon exceeded $81 million.
Staged at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF)-supported event featured musical performances by Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, Tim McGraw and Coldplay.
More than 40 top celebrities also donated their time to the telecast, which followed previous live broadcasts in 2008 and 2010. They included Tom Hanks, Katie Couric, Michael Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Timberlake and Gwyneth Paltrow, who also served as executive producer with Joel Gallen of Tenth Planet Productions.
Other production professionals included production designer John Caulkins, lighting designer Allen Branton and scenic media coordinator and programmer Laura Frank/Luminous fx. Tim LaValley produced the screen content. The crew supporting the event on behalf of Chaos included account managers Marty Wickman and Fred Waldman along with Erik Koehler, Justin Sykes, Mitch Lathrop and Mat Stoval.
“Chaos Visual handled all the projection for the live broadcast,” Wickman said, noting the production’s need for “large-scale and intricate control/processing,” involving “multiple curved surfaces in multiple dimensions” and “very intricate pixel mapping and masking.”
Along with crew, Chaos provided 18 Barco FLM 22 Projectors, seven Barco FLM HD20 projectors, four dual output Green Hippo 3.1 media servers and one Spyder X20 unit, along with a grandMA2 lighting console and fiber distribution system.
For more information, please visit www.chaosvisual.com.
