| APT Visuals comprises
VJ wellREDman, and LC AlwaysB - we specialise in working with live bands
and performance artists, combining old school camera mixing with modern
VJ techniques. Where a traditional vision mixer will use the cameras and
mixer to show on the screens the action on the stage, and a club VJ will
use the screens for a performance using his own work or sampled material
- we fuse the two concepts creating a show like a VJ but using and manipulating
the bands performance as a key ingredient.
AlwaysB fuses his traditional film/tv industry training in camera techniques
with his hobby of staff twirling and performance art using a camera mounted
on a monopod resulting in unorthodox but highly successful camerawork.
wellREDman has been a VJ for 4 years; his transition in the last year
from traditional club vjing to working with bands has seen him go from
small clubs to playing large arenas with chart act Public Domain. Recent
highlights have also included collaboration with the Bays, and performing
with Lamb on their farewell shows, which have been recorded for release
on DVD
Its kind of hard to describe what it is we do because the set up, and
way we use it varies from show to show, going from turning up and busking
with a band we've never even heard before to the Lamb shows where we were
running a five man film crew at the same time as doing our show. So for
the purposes of this piece we'll describe the rig we're putting together
for our upcoming UK tour with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Apart
from screens and projectors (which are generally dictated by the venue)
our rig contains five main elements, |