The Gospel Music Association’s 53rd Annual GMA Dove Awards ceremony took place at Nashville’s sold-out Allen Arena on Oct. 18, and the taped show aired Oct. 21 on TBN. Along with the performances, the event named GRAMMY Award winner CeCe Winans Artist of the Year, and also honored Winans for Song of the Year for her No. 1 Billboard hit, “Believe for It.”
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Comedian Nikki Glaser’s first HBO comedy special is a hilarious, no-holds-barred hour of comedy that covers a range of ticklish topics like sex, dating, and private parts. Taped late last year at the Paramount Theater in Denver, CO in front of a sold-out audience, Nikki Glaser: Good Clean Filth premiered on HBO on July 16 and is available to stream on HBO Max.Read More »Marc Janowitz Adds Extra Sparkle to Nikki Glaser Comedy Special with Elation SparkLED
The Kelly Clarkson Show returned to the stunning Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City to kick off their Season Four premiere this past September. Lighting Designer Darren Langer utilized a 4Wall lighting rental package to light the show’s weeklong stint at the Appel Room within Frederick P. Rose Hall. The shows were filmed in front of a live studio audience and featured special guests Garth Brooks, Kenan Thompson, and more.Read More »4Wall Supports LD Darren Langer for ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’s NYC Run at Jazz at Lincoln Center
The much-anticipated 2022 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) proved every bit as thrilling, visually dramatic and sonically entertaining as music fans globally have come to expect of this high-profile live broadcast extravaganza! This year it was staged at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, and lit for the third year by Tom Sutherland of DX7 Design.Read More »Robe Rocks at the 2022 VMAs with LD Tom Sutherland
America watched as country music’s biggest stars graced the stage of CMA Fest 2022, which aired on August 3 on ABC. The festival’s live event was filmed in June at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium and featured some of the genre’s biggest artists including Carrie Underwood, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Wynonna Judd, Darius Rucker, Kelsea Ballerini, and more, with Elle King and Dierks Bentley hosting.Read More »PRG Provides Support for CMA Fest 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a new action comedy film. PRG sat down with Gaffer Matthew Ardine to discuss his workflow for the stunning, fast-paced portal jumping scenes and his use of Mbox Studio+. “I have used it on tons of concerts and several commercials where I have pixel mapped hundreds of universes of pixels. It’s an awesome tool that has allowed me to achieve lighting setups that I could never imagine were possible 10 years ago.”
Joel Coen wanted to do Macbeth. But not just any Macbeth, a black and white version inspired both by comic books and German Expressionism. The stars on screen for The Tragedy of Macbeth are Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington—but the stars in the lighting rig were ETC and High End Systems fixtures. The lighting team that put them there and used them to great effect was led by Gaffer Michael Bauman and Lighting Programmer David Kane. Here is a video on the making of The Tragedy of Macbeth. You can go to 3:01 in the video to hear from Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel and Production Designer, Stefan Dechant on shooting the black and white film:
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With Matt Ardine – Lighting Designer and Gaffer