Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional You just picked up a rental package of lights from CHAUVET. But do you know how to get them out for rental, and more importantly, back again in one piece? Can you just keep them in the box and hope for the best? How about cables? […]
Academy of Production Technology: Day one. What is electricity? The scope of the first day was about entertainment electricity and electrical theory. For example, how to measure current, voltage, wattage, calculate phase angles, Ohm’s law and AC and DC power. There were quite a few ‘did you know?’ moments as well. Did you know you […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional One of my biggest pet peeves is messy cables. Even at my house, all of my cables behind the entertainment system are all zip-tied and grouped by control and power. Show time, being superficial with your cables is not recommended and is not professional. Neat cables […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional It took four days for our CHAUVET team to set up a giant spider and create a booth that amazed and infected hundreds of attendees with light at LDI 2011 in Orlando. We worked day and night installing 46 pieces of truss, 31 motors and ran […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional …And then it was over. After four days of load in, each consisting of about 14 hours per day, three days of show, and 12 hours of load out, it is all done. LDI 2011 is officially in the can. I have barely had time to […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional It’s day one of load in for LDI. Our crew killed it today! We rigged a total of 31 rigging points and all of our truss is ready for lights and video. Yep, its official, we are at LDI and ready to go. Big thanks to […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional After a very successful PLASA, I would like to thank a few people. First, I want to thank Sam from our CHAUVET Europe office for being the consummate professional during the buildup, the show, and tear down, as well as programming a great booth. I know […]
How to Design an Impeccable Show Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional In my opinion, there is only one way to design a successful show: you should have the collaboration under control and should start from the beginning. It is really easy to make the mistake of starting from the middle and […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I’m at PLASA 2011. We are getting the show ready and for the second time, we are right in front of the doors leading to Earls Court 2. For those of you who have been to Earls Court, you know that right before those doors, the […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I was in Mexico for the day to show our Legend Series to TV Azteca. I trained them on three fixtures from this series: Legend 1200E Wash, Legend 1200E Spot and Legend 300E Beam. Take a look at some of the behind-the-scenes shots Stéphane Gressier, global […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Frustration can come in many different forms. For me, it usually comes in the form of an airport. I write about travel quite a bit as, well, I travel a lot. In fact, I am hitting my gold level with American Airlines on this very trip—a […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional …And there was video, and it was good… CHAUVET has entered the video panel world with our release at InfoComm in Orlando this year. MVP Series of modular video panels has already started to buzz right out of the gate. (Honestly, we could not be any […]