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complete success. He looks forward to using both companies in the future. was created in the rehearsal process for the US tour, specifically the Siyan also deployed a video package - yes, the London-based performance at Coachella. Hollywood director Paul Thomas Anderson is a company has opened up a video rental service as part of an impressive family friend of HAIM, and worked with the band to produce the content. £2m investment. HAIM’s double stint at Alexandra Palace proved to be the “We basically cloned our Coachella video show for London. Parker and perfect concert setting to reveal its new LED screen inventory. I sat down and talked through the show, with Camera Director from Siyan, Video Director, Kate Leahy - who has a steady 20 years of lighting Chris Farrants. experience under her belt - came on board with HAIM in March 2018 “There were 2 key moments that were very successful in the show & when Dubois needed a lighting crew chief. “Jeremy and I have done many involved some IMAG trickery. The first was during Night So Long, when the projects together,” she began, “and this was a sisters appeared at the B-stage at FOH. It’s a very great opportunity to do something with a new slow, emotional song. Chris had switched his band.” camera feed to black and white, and we took an As video only made an appearance at the extreme close up of Alana HAIM and put her on the London shows, Leahy joined the team in the main wall halfway dissolved with the falling snow capital. The key elements of Siyan’s video package content. It was simple and magical. Even ‘Mama comprised a 15m wide x 6m LED wall (using a HAIM’, the girls’ mum, came up to me after the 6mm pitch), 2 20ft IMAG screens with Panasonic show and was very excited about it. That was one 21k Projectors, 6 Sony Pro Cameras - 3 manned, of those moments that I designed on the fly. “The HAIM girls are extremely 3 fixed. But the fun doesn’t stop there, as Leahy “The second great moment of the night was the hands-on when it comes to explained: “I also built a PRG MBox Studio V4 drum outro. The sisters all take their place upstage portable system for the band. I used a new 2017 production design; not only do behind an expansive drum kit and play played MacBook Pro with a Focusrite SMPTE Timecode it together. They’re right in front of the LED wall. they green-light specific ideas reader and a Blackmagic Deisgn mini video Usually, camera ops are instructed to stay away recorder to capture the IMAG feed. I was driving all from catching their own shot behind the subject, but they are responsible for a the content on the main wall and incorporating but in this instance, we used the resulting ‘infinity’ lot of the original concepts.” live camera feeds.” effect. All 3 sisters were trailing all over the wall, As for the visuals, most of the show’s content banging away on their section of the kit. This idea Kate Leahy, Video Director 86