Premier LED display a major success at Love Saves The Day Festival
LONDON – Bristol-based
Fineline Lighting proves the wisdom of its investment in Martin by HARMAN’s VDO
Face 5 HB LED panels by deploying impressive media displays on the two main
stages at the recent Love Saves The Day Festival, held locally in the city’s Eastville
Park.
Specialists
in production lighting and visual displays, Fineline has regularly serviced the
festival’s requirements for promoters Team Love — again rigging the two premier
stages at the sell-out festival and providing kit for the subsidiary stages.
Headliners
such as Fat Freddy’s Drop and Little Dragon performed onstage before 20,000
people to a backdrop of 100 VDO Face 5 HB panels on the main stage, arranged
into a series of columns and a conventional landscape screen made up of 36
panels on the second Cloud Nine stage.
The video content
was comprised of Fineline stock material, purpose-made event content and also
video content provided by some of the artistes. The content was placed on
Fineline’s AI media server and processed by the Martin by HARMAN P3-300
controllers, which combines the award-winning P3 workflow with a new
high-performance video processing engine.
Fineline is
the first company in the UK to own the new VDO Face 5 HB
high-brightness, outdoor-rated LED video panel, with 5.2mm pixel pitch.
“The system
went in extremely easily and looked amazing,” said Fineline managing director
Rob Sangwell, who confirms the display justified his initial investment in 50
sq.m of the product. “I undertook a lot of research and looked at most screens
on the market before deciding. But I opted for Martin, based partly on the
relationship we have, along with the excellent back-up and the fact it’s a
respected brand. We also looked at the high quality of the product, and the
image it produces is great.”
Sangwell also
highlighted a number of other key advantages. “We were impressed with the fact
it is IP65-rated all the way round the panel, which many other systems are not,
and it has a Beaufort Scale 8 wind rating, which is important to us during the
festival season,” he said. ”All of our structures have full structural reports
and wind rating but many of the screen systems do not. With the Martin screen
product we can provide a fully rated screen and structure package for our
outdoor event clients.”
“The other
key feature is that because it is not batch-dependent it is cross rentable —
and that is a major selling point,” he said. “As for the P3-300 controllers they
have a lot of features that standard scalers and video controllers simply don't
have which allow greater creative use of the panels”
Tom Paine,
who heads the Team Love organisation, working with partner Dave Harvey, agreed.
”We have been working with Fineline for a number of years on this event and
know that their inventory is always right at the cutting edge. The video
screens at this year’s event were no exception; they looked great and were very
well received by the production crews and artistes.”
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