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CPL supplies Roe LED screens to Hay Festival

CPL supplies Roe LED screens to Hay Festival
CPL supplies Roe LED screens to Hay Festival

CPL supplied their new Roe 3.4 mm LED screens and all associated processing and vision control for two major stages at the 2018 Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, an annual 10-day literature event staged in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales.

 

It was the first time the west-Midlands based visual and technical production specialist had worked on the event, for which they were approached directly by the event organisers. It was also the first time that the event had gone to LED for video display, having worked with projection festival-wide for several years.

 

There are eight major live stages - offering over 5000 seats - and CPL was the video supplier for the two largest areas, the 1716 capacity Tata Tent and the Oxfam Moot stage which accommodated 921 people.

 

The project was managed for CPL by George Oakey from the office/warehouse end, and on-site by Stuart Dowdell, a regular CPL freelancer and a seasoned Hay Festival video tech having worked on it for the last six years.

 

The Roe 3.4 mm HD screen was specified and designed to enable everyone in the rooms to see a range of PowerPoint and Keynote presentations, VT playbacks, live camera feeds, pre-show rolls plus sponsor loops and stings as well as information related to the specific event or debate taking place onstage.

 

Both stages had three screens, a central upstage surface flanked by two side LEDs. In the Tata Tent, the main screen measured 5 metres wide by 2.5 metre high, supported by two 2.5 x 1.5 metre wide side screens. The Oxfam stage featured a 3.5 metre wide central screen with two slightly smaller satellite screens.

 

The side screens in the Tata Tent replaced the 65 inch plasmas of previous years. The various video feeds (stage laptops, control laptops, visualizer feeds, OB cameras, etc.) were routed via one of CPL’s Blackmagic SDI matrixes.

 

The OB trucks - the BBC broadcasts many elements of the festival across multiple channels - could then create their own mix. Presentations on both Tata and Oxfam stages - as hubs of the festival action - were recorded by the BBC, some for immediate and some for later broadcast. The matrix fed a Roland switcher operated by an assistant stage manager in each case, who could control any video feed and route it to any screen.

 

Two CPL Brompton M2 Processors were used per venue, one handling the main screen and one for the two side screens, and these were also fed programme and aux feeds from the Roland via the matrix. The screens on both stages aired pre-show rolls with images and information on Hay and sponsor information related to the upcoming event during the audience walk-in.

 

If the presenter utilised PowerPoint or Keynote in their addresses, that was shown on the main screen, with live camera IMAG relay going to the sides. If it was a talk or an interview with no video presentation, then all the screens showed live camera relays.

 

(Photos: Hay Festival 2018)

 

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