Stage Design / Tour Visuals / Live VJ Operation

When Darkness Falls Cityscape Stage

Adventure Club "When Darkness Falls" - The Cityscape Stage · Melt Creative archive film · 0:28

For Adventure Club's Fall 2015 When Darkness Falls tour, Melt Creative turned the duo's darker tour theme into a physical cityscape stage: a scalable scenic system of movable high-resolution 8mm LED elements and custom mapped visual environments.

The work moved beyond a standard screen package. The stage began as rough cityscape sketches, moved through digital drafting, and became specialized set carts that let the LED panels and scenic pieces move from venue to venue while retaining the look of an illuminated skyline.

The final system gave Adventure Club a touring visual identity that could scale across rooms, hold up under lighting and camera coverage, and transport the set through different animated worlds as the show progressed.

Project facts

Client: Adventure Club
Tour: When Darkness Falls, Fall 2015
Tour scale: 18 major U.S. cities over one month
Stage system: Moving 8mm LED panels and cityscape scenic carts
MELT scope: Stage design, creative direction, animation, custom mapping, and live VJ operation

Credits

Stage design: Melt Creative
Creative direction and animation: MurderBear and Melt Creative
Live operation and VJ: Infinight, MurderBear, and Melt Creative
Lighting design and operation: Life is Art
Production provider: White Light AV
Stage manager: Robert Domin
Video footage: Blaise Joseph Photography and MurderBear

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