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Pvris’ first-ever TV appearance with Ayrton MagicBlade-Rs

UK-based production design company Okulus chose a bank of 40 Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures to back the American rock band Pvris on their first-ever televised appearance. The band appeared in January 2016 on the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ show on America’s ABC television network. Pvris turned to Okulus’ lighting designers and programmers, James Scott and Louis Oliver, to bring their ideas to life.

The MagicBlade-R units were rigged vertically on ten 8 ft poles behind the band in a 4-high x 10-wide configuration to fit within the restricted space of the Kimmel studios. “The band themselves have a strong black and white look which we were keen to emphasise,” says Oliver.

“Under their direction we kept the colour palette deliberately monotone and chose to use the MagicBlades only in white, with one minor exception of a pale blue, CTB tint. We were able to create lots of subtle effects amid the sweeps, altering the angle of the fixtures to create symmetrical patterns across the back wall and taking full advantage of the control over individual emitters to run vertical and horizontal chases over the grid.”

Scott and Oliver programmed the show in advance using cast WYSIWYG software. “This gave us the chance to experiment with the MagicBlade and to play with the structure of the visuals they produced in the grid.” They chose to programme each MagicBlade-R manually without using any of the onboard features.

The programming took place at the offices of Ayrton’s UK distributor, Ambersphere, in London. The show was then set up and operated by Sooner Routhier during the broadcast, triggered by timecode and driven from a GrandMA2 Light console.

(Photos: Jimmy Kimmel Live!)

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