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Beyonce SD7 TPI June2013
Beyonce SD7 TPI June2013
BEYONC :
THE MRS CARTER SHOW
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MRS. CARTER SHOW WORLD TOUR BEGAN IN BELGRADE, SERBIA, IN
APRIL WITH BEYONC DELIVERING YET ANOTHER HIGHLY CREATIVE AND TECHNICALLY DEMANDING
TOURING VISION. SET DESIGNER, LEROY BENNETT, WAS AT THE HELM OF THE SHOWS MASTERFUL
VISUAL DISPLAYS, WHICH INCLUDED A RECORD BREAKING LIGHTING DESIGN. TPiS KELLY MURRAY
SAW PARKWOOD ENTERTAINMENTS INCREDIBLE PRODUCTION.
When global star, American singer /
songwriter, actress, producer and director,
Beyonc Knowles plans a tour, she is in
the incredible position to be able to do
so with her own multi-faceted company,
Parkwood Entertainment. Not only servicing
her various projects and branding for TV
audiences and her record buying public,
Parkwood Entertainment also has staff wellversed in the world of live production. The
close team of technical experts and creatives
who lead the way in terms of getting the
artists idea made into a packageable
show is lead by Production Mangers Alex
Miasnikof and Malcolm Weldon.
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PRODUCTION
Before landing the prestigious role of
Production Manager for Beyonc, Alex
Miasnikof previously worked for Montreal-based
Solotech, touring with various artists including
Celine Dion before becoming a Cirque du Soleil
Production Manger / Technical Director. After
three years with the circus, Celine Dions team
asked him to return as a Stage Manager and
then as a Production Manager.
Miasnikof furthered: Ken Ehrilch - Director
of Celines show - refered me to Beyoncs camp
when they where looking for a Production
Manager so Ive only been working with her
for the past year. I was hired for her Back To
Opposite: Beyoncs tour has become one of the brightest shows on record. Below: Production Manager, Alex Miasnikof; Monitor Engineer, Daniel Gonzalez with his Avid Profile; System Tech Arno
Forno chose d&b for the PA.
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Below: The automation team: Jamie Pharand, TK Woo and Russell Macias; The video crew with IMAG Director, Kevin Carswell; Production Stage Manager, Terry Cooley, with TPis Hannah Eakins; The
moving LED video wall from Chaos Visual Productions comprised 198 tiles of Everbrighten BR15mm, 22 tiles wide by nine tiles high.
Below: Lighting Director, Whitney Hoversten; Beyonc decided she wanted her tour to be lighting driven; The lighting rig comprised almost 1,000 fixtures, some of which were brand new and some
of which were customised by lighting vendor, Upstaging.
a concert stage.
The low profile, lightweight X-5 is designed
to deliver the same output as conventional
strobes from one fifth of the power. Housing
2,970 LEDs, power consumption of 360W with
lamp life of 50,000 hours, contained in a slim
aluminium chassis, it is designed into three cells to boost creativity.
These attributes had been brought to
Bennetts attention by one of his partners,
programmer Cory FitzGerald, and Randy Wade,
who heads up SGM, in Houston, Texas. I
was impressed by the combination of power
consumption, brightness and rugged design,
LeRoy explained. But I was particularly
impressed by the fact that each strobe breaks
down to three individual cells, enabling me to
project very low res graphics as well a bright
blasts of light and strobing, he said. Most of
them are in a 4 by 4 block formation.
Once Bennett had completed the final
look of the show, he handed the reigns over
to Lighting Director, Whitney Hulverston, to
operate the mammoth design. Hoversten
commented: LeRoy is brilliant to say the least.
Shows nowadays are like going to see a movie
- with all the video - but Beyonc wanted a big
lighting show this time which lit LeRoys face up!
Its very bold and a lot of fun to play with.
Below: TAIT created a bespoke stage for the tour; The tour carried a lot of pyro and gags, including 180 Le Maitre pieces, supplied by Strictly FX; Lead Rigger, Chad Koehler; during the show; The
tours visual concepts were the work of renowned Production Designer and Lighting Designer, LeRoy Bennett; The crew had six weeks of full production rehearsals in New York.
She gives 110% every night without fail and we do a good job at
capturing that...
Below: Beyonc was flown to the B Stage using a TAIT / Fisher Navigator so that she could interact with fans at the far end of the arena.
Below: The shows special effects were designed around the choreography throughout.
Below: FOH Engineer Stephen Curtin specd a DiGiCo SD7; The technical team had to consider the choreography routines when designing the show.
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Below: ; The singer had a custom stage built at Tait Towers in Pensylvania, USA; Beyoncs chrome-finish Sennheiser SKM 5200-II handheld transmitter, with an MD 5235 dynamic capsule on top.