blue planet

[Anyone]

does anybody know about this gig ?

BBC Blue planet - Prom In The Park

"A live [classical] orchestra plays against a backdrop of footage from David Attenborough's deep sea odyssey "The Blue Planet" on big screens"

It's actually tonite (15-09-02) in London, outdoors, in Hyde Park
does anybody know who will be triggering/mixing the footage ?

anybody going ?

[syzygy]

I saw the advert for this a while back - I assumed that they would probably have pre-edited the video for the music (liek the way they script fireworks for classical concerts)

It's interesting that the idea of using visuals has extended all the way to classical music though...

SyZyGy

[ToddGraft]

Dunn it
Last year, Turnmills were booking a string quartet to play on a friday night in the chill out room. The missus got the gig and decided to use Blue Planet footage. We put a few edge FX on it and rainbowed it up a bit, and mixed it to the strings.
Went down well, the visuals, but not the music.
Wished I knew about Hyde Pk gig though, did you go?

[Anyone]

Nah, didnt go...

was itching too though...
but ?15, a bit to much...

did anybody go?

NE1

[sleepytom]

?if it was a BBC gig then it was probably somthing to do with Kriel ? maybe he knows about it or maybe it was just a prom production and thus nothing to do with radio1 / VJKriel (i'm guessing there are other people at the bbc who can sort out the tech side of a simple vj setup and i doubt they were after kriels style for a clasical music gig)

on the subject of the blue planet has anyone else noticed the way quite a lot of the footage on the DVD edition seems to of been filmed in 4:3 and then cropped to 16:9 ?

[Anyone]

no it wasnt Kriel, just asked him...

my guess is there wasnt a VJ there or we'd have known about it by now...
they probably pressed play on the DVD...

bugger... would have loved to (legally) use that footage for a gig...:rolleyes:

[michaelheap]

i went, it wasnt just play on a dvd, it was pre conceived loops mixed live with crowd & orchestral stuff, not vjing realy, but mor like live music videos with a bit of vt stuff thrown in

great evening, 2 disapointments

1 it was an hour and a half booo should have been 3-4
2 the relolution on the huge plasma screens was shit, loads of bleeding

highlights

1) live comentry from the big man david A
2)they played sue la mere
4) no classical music!!!!!!

[ToddGraft]

"A live [classical] orchestra plays against a backdrop of footage from David Attenborough's deep sea odyssey "The Blue Planet" on big screens"

maybe the orchestra got a better gig?

I went to a BBC event in Oxford "Generi Sci Fi Quarry"
It was a trbute to a dead Dr Who producer and involved the BBC team. The Budget/funding must have been huge and great things where promised.
In a dank and dark countryside quarry about 300 people waded through the mud to view.
The sound was brilliant, quad surround and deafeningly on a Dr who FX tip:) respect due.
The visuals....well....in making no use of the excellent toplogy of the quarry, no advantage of 5000 lumen epsoms(doubled up), no use of the BBC talented graphics people, no use of synchronised software (they were using Nuendo) and definantly no kind of narrative.

It was SHIT.

Arts funding gone to waste.