Saturday Night Live Rhianna Live Performance
The Ask.
Can you come over today setup projectors and program a live performance for SNL with Rhianna. Projectors had to be aligned warped then struck before the show start, then during a short commercial break projectors were rolled onstage audio track with timecode ran and we had to be ready. SNL also wanted to project on the entire band except Rhianna we had a follow spot on her to effectively remove the projections from her performance.
What I did.
Projectors were aligned and warped to fit three walls of the studio. We had content for two songs all programmed on Grand MA Lighting Desk with DMX controlled Hippotizer Media Servers with timecode input.
How I did it.
Hippotizers were programmed with a custom line up grid. When the projectors rolled onstage all the stage hands had to do to align projections was roll the two halves together and boom we were off and running. Projectors were on 8 foot tall rolling scaffold and placed camera right and left of the stage shooting projections over the camera positions with no boom or camera shadows.
What I used to do it.
Hippotizer Media Servers, Grand MA Lighting Desks. And the amazing SNL stage hands.