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Bryson Tiller XR concert created with Robe

Xite Labs - founded in 2018 by visual and production design specialists Greg Russell and Vello Virkhaus - was approached by director Mike Carson and The 92 Group to assist in the production of XR environments for singer, rapper, and songwriter Bryson Tiller who recently recorded an XR concert - for later broadcast - in Calabasas, California at Xite Labs’ XR stage facility.

Xite received a detailed brief with a set of storyboard images and a flow concept of the four dynamic worlds that they wanted to build. The 3D spaces were created by multiple artists using Unreal Engine and Notch. For the shoot, the physical studio design comprised three sides - including a back wall - of LED, an LED floor with rear lights at high angles following the back wall curve, plus several front and side filler lights.

Two cameras were involved, one mounted on a tripod and one on the end of a human-operated 12 ft arm crane. The crane camera was fitted with a Canon 18-105 lens, and a Stype Red Spy optical camera tracking system. The secondary camera had a long lens and was offset to the left of the main LED screen and used for a range of classic static telephoto looks.

The Robe Tetra2s were used for side fills, the T1 Profiles and BMFL Blades were rigged in the front and high side lighting positions, while the SuperSpikies were at the back. All of these provided light on Tiller that closely mirrored the activity of the richly contrasting environments.

The BMFL Blades were brought in as an extra by DoP Russ Fraser and used to side light the artist and create patterns and light movement. A GrandMA2 system was used for control, with lighting and video cues timecoded for synchronicity between the creative and narrative events. A total of 14 songs were recorded.

Lighting equipment was supplied by Russ Fraser Films and the production company was HPLA with Bryson Tiller, Ryan Hahn, and Neil Dominique as executive producers. Mike Carson was the show director, and the overall creative direction was a collaboration between Vello Virkhaus and Greg Russel, Amish Dani, and Sam Ashcroft. Lighting director was Mike Robertson from Lightswitch who also did the timecode pre-programming and show file setup, and the D3 server operator was Simon Anaya.

(Photos: Billy Woods/Xite Labs)

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