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POSTCARD EDITION 08/09
W-DMX™ PRODUCT RANGE
W-DMX™ Takes on Hollywood
We all think that big budget movie productions have the time and resources to make sure the results
are perfect, but in reality, they actually have a lower threshold of mistakes than most people believe.
So it’s no surprise that W-DMX™ has been used on many major motion pictures over the last few
years with great success. There are some talented individuals pushing networking and wireless
technology into the lighting control of the lms made by the major studios.
Joshua Thatcher with the Local 728 in Hollywood was the rst to use W-DMX™ in a major feature lm,
Spiderman 3, and has continued to employ it in movies like Mission Impossible III, Transformers and
Iron Man. “W-DMX™ is something that I don’t hesitate to use at anytime,” he explains, “I regularly
use four to eight universes of it, due to the fact that most of the sets that we rig encompass a large
amount of area. In these situations I have found it highly reliable and solid. With your reputation at
stake on a large budget project with sometimes only one chance to get the shoot, this is important.
The equipment makes otherwise situations that seem impossible possible. I have used it covering
large areas, but also have placed it into very specialized situations. One example was a helicopter
install for Mission Impossible III running Color Kinetic Color Blast LED’s rigged off of battery power.
I was on the ground and I was able to program an effect that ran as it landed and took off during
a chase sequence. I was able to carry it for about half a mile while one camera was inside still
recording. Even the last minute added piece of equipment really is saved by having a couple of
W-DMX™ units on hand. The people in the company are great to deal with and I recommend this
product to everyone.”
Another user of W-DMX™ in major motion pictures is Jason McKinnon of Electric Aura Lighting
Design, who has used W-DMX™ on the movies Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer and many
others soon to be released. McKinnon explains, “For Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer we
used six outdoor units in a downtown environment, which was a little scary considering the amount of
frequencies bouncing around. I could see 25 wireless networks from the transmitter location alone.
We were transmitting from rooftops to the street level, and also to the 25th oor of the building
down the street. With all of the stunt work and cable rigs for special effects, running cable was not
an option. The system performed incredibly well considering that for two nights, it was snowing and
-22deg C, very unlike Vancouver. If there had been any problems, we would have been dead in the
water.”
He continues, “It is getting more common these days to have all lights on a set into dimming. When
in an outdoor environment with multiple dimmer locations, W-DMX™ is becoming the ideal solution.
Power is usually fed by multiple generators located close to each dimmer shack but control always
has to go back to one point. W-DMX™ allows this to happen easily. W-DMX™ is simply the best
available!”
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