The 14^th of August saw opening night of the Australian International School Singapore’s production of “Spider’s Web”. The Agatha Christie murder mystery, set in Copplestone Court Kent 1956, was a small but intricate set designed to mirror the interior of a drawing room in a posh Kent home. Lighting was intricate, with many practical components of the set having to come to life at the flick of a switch! Lighting Designer and Systems Engineer for the show, Daniel Gosling – a freelance designer and operator based in Singapore – chose a GrandMA Pico console with remote for the production. When asked about why the Pico, Daniel stated “..there was a lot of complex programming throughout the show with many individual dimmers needing to be accessed effortlessly and the ability to quickly and easily grab stage components through the GrandMA’s versatility and customizable touch screen was a godsend”.

The set’s intricacy also allowed Daniel to explore the use of complex shadow and so adapt his design to the ‘film noir’ concept, desired by director Cate Weston.

Although the overhead rig was simple, consisting of a mixture of Selecon Plano-Convex with 18°, 22° and 24° lens tubes, Selecon Fresnels and an array of mini-fresnels, many ‘behind the scenes extras’ allowed the MARemote on a PDA to become very useful during programming and technical rehearsals.

Spider’s Web - A classic murder mystery, only enhanced by the GrandMA Pico!

Spiders Web Set

Spiders Web During Show

During this years PALME Asia 2008, held between the 8th - 10th of July, GoslingProductions privileged to be invited to work with MA Lighting at their J19 booth at the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore.

It was a great opportunity for GoslingProductions to intermingle with some of the local MA users and meet many new faces, and rekindle some old networks and relationships.

It was also fantastic to meet Lighting Designer and MA Specialist, Paul Collison, and Addam Crawford as they visited after working on the Singapore National Day Parade, a venue very close to Suntec Convention Centre!

At the event, we had the Fullsize GrandMA Series 1 Console, A GrandMA Ultralight, the new Fullsize GrandMA Series 2 Console and accompanying MA2 3D, the brand new visualiser due to be released with the MA 2 consoles. It is a fantastic piece of software, with incredibly realistic shadows, beam effects and movement paths.

We also had a whole range of Schnik-Schnak LED screens (distributed exclusively through MA Lighting) run off a side network rack, fed through a media server and linked into the MA network. Also on the stands network was a range of NSP (Network Signal Processors), DimMA Racks, NPU’s, MA Media Servers, Replay Units and monitors for the media servers. Running off the second media server was a mixture of advertising material being sent to one 40″ LCD TV at the far side of the stand, with the other LCD displaying the pixel mapping being outputted through art-net to the LED Screens.

It was a great few days, and it was a true pleasure to work with MA Lighting’s MD’s Michael Althaus & Michael Adenau, MA Lighting’s Project Coordinator Oliver Ditter, and MA Singapore’s Sales Manager, Jens Poehlker.

GoslingProductions is now exclusively dealing with MA Consoles, as an operating, design and programming platform and strives to integrate video and lighting through their truly one of a kind, leading systems.

Below is a picture of the group of the MA Stand J19, the GrandMA 2 & the GrandMA Series 1 Fullsize Consoles.

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Daniel
GoslingProductions

MA Lighting & GoslingProductions

GrandMA Series 1 Fullsize

GrandMA Series 2 Fullsize

For all those followers of GoslingProductions and GrandMA users alike, I wanted to let you all know that MA Lighting has recently released the GrandMA2!

Unlike the GrandMA Fullsize, the GrandMA2 range boasts an impressive new look with new features and an upgraded software and networking backbone.

Below are some pictures of the consoles:

GrandMA2 Full Size with Fader Wing

GrandMA2 Light with Fader Wing

GrandMA2 Ultra-Light with Fader Wing

The fullsize console boasts some fantastic new characteristics such as the capability to control up to 65, 536 parameters per session, 32 possible sessions with up to 200 stations per session, an enhanced multi user mode with an extra touch screen for programming and colour mixing purposes (9″ command monitor), three 15.4″ touch screen displays with two external outputs available, a motorize fader wing and a whole lot of other features which you will have to check out!

GoslingProductions has not yet had the chance to work with the GrandMA 2, but hopes to do so in the near future to further develop the companies vision about integrating any solution to create truly unique events. If the GrandMA Fullsize was anything to go by, this new and improved GrandMA2 with a stronger networking backbone, new interfaces and improved software will be a delight to use!

For more information, please visit the GrandMA2 website, or contact us through our Support Forum with any questions you may have.

GoslingProductions has just returned from the Unleash Your Marketing GeniusMarketing Seminar at the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia. Run and organized byStephen Pierce International, the seminar showcased some of the worlds mostinnovative and successful Internet Marketers infront of a crowd of around 230people.

Speakers such as Stephen Pierce, Alan Forrest Smith, Nikhil Parekh, Andrew & Daryl, Janet Switzer, Ken “The Storm” Shimitzu, Melissa Hewetson, and many more were impressed with the professionalism of the GoslingProduction crew. Some of their testimonials include:

“You’ve done it before and you’ve done it again! You were just so professional and added that unique touch to the seminar, and I hope you do it again soon!” - Stephen Pierce International

“I would just like to thank you for the absolutely incredible service at the UYMG Seminar Sydney Daniel, Please pass my regards onto the crew from the event” - Nikhil Parekh

GoslingProductions was called upon to Liase with event staff from

Norwest Productions, Chameleon Lighting & Big Picture Productions for the duration of the event. Norwest Productions supplied all sound equipment, and the show was run off a Yamaha PM1D Digital Console. Lighting (consisting of 4 x Mac700, 8 x Selecon 1.5K Fresnels & Source 4’s) was controlled off a Jands Hog 1000. Vision was controlled off a vision mixer with signals from laptops on stage and at OP’s to two Barco projectors positioned behind two snap-lock rear projection screens.

A problem that was found early on in the seminar was trying to get the 230 participants on the Internet (which was supplied by The PA People). 8 Wireless routers were positioned around the room and connected to a central server,
however various problems were encountered with different Operating Systems (XP, Vista, Mac) conflicting with overcrowded ports and routers. A solution was needed, and some 100 + hardwired connections were run from server sub-stations around the room to the participants. The problems were ironed out thanks to the fantastic work of The PA People and their IT team, so GoslingProductions would like to give a special thankyou to them for a job well done!

Having worked with Stephen Pierce International on previous occassions, it was a privilege to work with them again as a liason between International Speakers and Production crews.

For more information on the UYMG Sydney Seminar, please use our support forum!

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This is the first of many installations that are to come to the GoslingProductions Online Blog and I hope that you will return to keep abreast of the news and current happenings withing GoslingProductions.

If you do have any questions, please do not hesitate to lodge a support ticket on our Support page or post a comment on the blog entry to let us know what you think!

We look forward to making all your needs in the Entertainment Industry a success!

Daniel Gosling

GoslingProductions
Design & Integrated Solutions