High Resolution Lighting co-ordinated the supply of all video, digital and visual control elements for the 2008 series of "You're A Star", Ireland's hugely popular quest to find new singing talent aired on RTE1. The contemporary video-based visual design combined ideas from the creative team, including lighting designer Andrew Leonard, set designer Molly Malloy, director Pat Cowap and Catalyst programmer/operator Peter Canning.

High Resolution Lighting supplied 400 panels of Stealth, which were arranged as 8 scenic panels around the stage, with 5 strips in the audience at the sides, below the balconies and along the back of the theatre stalls. The audience strips were used for branding & text and for adding colour and movement for wide camera sweeps and reverse shots into the audience. There was also a larger section of Stealth ensconced below the specially constructed star-shaped Perspex stage floor.

High Res also supplied 60 high definition Versatubes and 100 standard Versatubes that were intergrated as set and sub-floor pieces. Versatubes were also used to make illuminated architectural strips linking from the sides of the stage to the show's flown star logo.The whole system was run from our Catalyst server, triggered from our Diamond 4 lighting desk.

One of the basic visual goals this series was to develop the video theme, Stealth helped achieve this to great effect. Additionally plenty of flexibility was needed to give each artist and each song its own unique look and to combine the demands of producing a show that looked great on camera and also exciting for the live audience.

Content for the Stealth was generated by Peter Canning, using our Catalyst digital media server. The OB truck was also sending a feed to the video input card of the Catalyst, allowing the vision mixer to select cameras to screen or to send Peter graphics which he could then output and move around and build into the chases on the Stealth and Versatubes mixes, via the Catalyst.