PRG Best Boy Rocks Its Television Debut on the 2012 Grammy Awards

ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG), was pleased to support lighting designer Bob Dickinson and his Full Flood team when they lit the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, on Sunday, February 12. For the biggest night in the music industry, PRG provided the entire lighting package including the Best Boy 4000® Spot Luminaire. Dickinson's dynamic design marked the first use of the Best Boy 4000 since it was launched at LDI2011, where it received the Live Design Debuting Product of the Year.

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Dickinson used 18 of the new Best Boys, split between the two performance stages. "Since these were the first ones, I didn't have a large number of them so I decided to put them on the floor and use them for patterns and effects. At one point, we were doing a very tricky number with Chris Brown, which was on a pyramid of white blocks. The tops, sides, and fronts of these blocks were projected on with front projection. However, Chris himself and the dozen dancers were not lit by the projections.  I used the Best Boys because their shutters are highly accurate to sidelight Chris and his dancers and to precisely carve out the white blocks, so the light did not contaminate the projection surface. When you are doing that kind of framing, an inch makes a big difference. The Best Boys were incredibly accurate."

Dickinson was very impressed with the entire feature set that the Best Boy 4000 offers.  "This is the single most exciting new instrument that I have seen in over 10 years. There is no other light that has been so well thought out and successfully achieved its design goals as the Best Boy 4000. The optics are amazing; the output and the field of the light are just wonderful; and the color temperature is consistent and not too blue, because the color temperature of a lot of these instruments gets really high. Optically, it is unparalleled right now in the marketplace."

After his experience using the Best Boy on the Grammy Awards, Dickinson notes he would be very confident in expanding their role in his future designs. "Usually if you want framers then you have to make sacrifices. If we want a full selection of patterns, then we can't have framers.  The [Best Boy] 4000 does a great job because it offers all the features we want so we don't have to hang a rig with framers in one place and full pattern units in others.  This allows us to have everything that we want from a single light. I would absolutely hang a rig predominately with the Best Boy 4000."

The PRG Best Boy 4000 is a precision-engineered automated light with a truly complete feature set.  Designed to be energy efficient, the unit delivers over 20,000 lumens, but draws only 5 amps at 208 volts and 10 amps at 110 volts.

Other PRG proprietary products in the Grammy Award lighting package included V676 ® Lighting Control Consoles and the PRG Series 400® Power and Data Distribution System. As a part of the video projection system, PRG provided V476® Lighting Control Consoles and Mbox Extreme® Media Servers.

For more information on PRG, please visit www.prg.com.

For more information about the Best Boy 4000 Spot Luminaire, please visit http://www.prg.com/product/bestboy4000/.

About Production Resource Group - Production Resource Group, L.L.C., (PRG) is the world's leading supplier of entertainment and event technology to a wide range of markets, including corporate and automotive events, concerts, special events, theatre, television and film, trade shows, and installations, such as theme parks, museums, retail stores and performing arts centers. PRG provides integrated services and equipment, including audio, video, lighting, rigging, scenery, and rigging and automation systems, for these markets from more than 40 offices in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

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