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U2 360°: Q&A with Video Director Stefaan “Smasher” Desmedt

Published Thursday, August 27, 2009

Video plays a (very) large part of the U2 360° Tour both as a design aspect and a technical element. Show director/designer Willie Williams designed a large elliptically-shaped video screen that through clever engineering and construction can stretch and open up all the while offering a true 360° view of the band to everyone in the audience. When I spoke with video director Stefaan “Smasher” Desmedt, who has been with U2 since the Zoo TV tour, he walked me through the video system, talked about calling 12 cameras for every show and how he can ...

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