Taping of A New Day... in January 2007

[Love,]

TOMORROWWWW!!! TOMORRRRROOOOOWWWW!!!

 

It's only... a DAY... AWAYYYYYYYYY!!!!

[Tal]

if we wont get the songs that were removed , i really cant see the point of this DVD...if they really want the people to experience a new day...they have to show them the entire journey including the songs that were removed .

and even more important for me - she used to sing "nature boy" 100% live and i love this song , she also used to sing TFTEISYF 100% live and it used to be one of the most emotional songs in the show...they also removed JTE which she also sang 100% live...

 

it's obvious they removed those songs cause celine wanted to protect her voice and it's much easier not to sing live but for the DVD they can add those songs and if not singing those songs for the actual recording atleast taking those songs from the previous DVD...

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have you seen the dvd wishlist that was handed to rene? we requested for all omitted songs to be added as bonus features and a list was provided in case he forgot.

[Bellamy]

The cameras were Sony cameras and they were quite big.

 

At least 15 I reckon.

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Must be SONY professional HD Cameras.

 

We did everything we could to help them come up with ideas for a proper release. This is a small spark of hope for the actual release, Shaun! The very fact they're mentioning the HD cameras already speaks they read the HD part in our wishlist. hihi

 

Besides, Shaun, I'm actually interested to watch the blond Day Of Life in Céline's life and The Day Of Life In Céline's crew! These two documentaries we will surely have.

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I can't wait too.

 

Anyone noticed they keep repeating the show would be taped by HD cams in the recent news about the taping? They never did that for the 2003 DVD taping.

[whosarahre]

i am so freaking jealous of anybody in vegas this week! god! the frustration hurts me!

[Love,]

 

 

 

Alright!

 

After a pampering, warm shower... I'm going to be getting to bed and sleeping for a wee bit before I get up bright and early, jet-set and ready and off I go!!!

 

I AM SOOOOO EXCITTTTTEEEED!!!!

[celinefanonline]

good luck and let us know what happen

[amelie]

imagine he sleeps too much and misses the show :P

[Kian]

I cant imagine how can he sleep at all. If I could go to Vegas to see Celine I would be 24 hours a day

[Kian]

I never expected new songs to be added to the show (or some of the old ones) so I'm not dissapointed. As for songs that were removed I only hope that Sony doesn't screw things up again and release dvd without them. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that happens so I'm not gonna hope too much cause I'll just end up REALLY

[thevoice]

yeahh tal i know about the wishlist and i know we did as much as we could - i just hope they care

[mirage]

the ones who were getting interviewd in las vegas, have met celine...

[pepillo90]

I never expected new songs to be added to the show (or some of the old ones) so I'm not dissapointed. As for songs that were removed I only hope that Sony doesn't screw things up again and release dvd without them. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that happens so I'm not gonna hope too much cause I'll just end up REALLY 

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I agree...

 

If Celine added new songs just for this week, then won't be A New Day...

[Bellamy]

the ones who were getting interviewd in las vegas, have met celine...

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Anymore detail?

[mirage]

nope not yet, only thing i know that fridaynight vegas time, fans were interviewd and after that they met celine...

saterday night the other fans will be interviewd, dont know if they will meet celine also..

[stevo]

well then I absolutely HATE all of you who were interviewd. CRY!!!!!!!

[fred]

I am disappointed that she didn't perform The Power Of Love live... I mean it's about time. This thing is getting ridiculous. At least record a new live track... or take the song out. They way it is sung now have been heard too many times and it has lost all its feeling. She really needs to give this song a new approach.

 

/fred

[thevoice]

This thing is getting ridiculous.

 

/fred

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it got redicilous a long time ago

[Love,]

I woke up on time, folks! Had 5 - 5 1/2 hours of beauty sleep! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!! I'm SOOOO EXCITEDDDD!!!!

[pepillo90]

I woke up on time, folks! Had 5 -  5 1/2 hours of beauty sleep! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!! I'm SOOOO EXCITEDDDD!!!!         

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You're so lucky!

[CSCfan]

Guys, DON'T WORRY!!

 

The "older" songs WILL make the DVD, so you should really stop expecting too much. There will be no extra songs added in the remaining shows and it really doesn't make sense to include for example Celine flying right now, because it doesn't really fit the show anymore (those frames used in TFTIESWF are now used in PQTME).

 

Anyway, you WILL get an awesome DVD, the show last night was even better and tonight's....THE night!!!! :D

[Céline's Blues]

So I can assume RDMH is veing sung fully live then? For 100%?

 

Anyhow I'm glad they will keep the show as it is. It seems it flows better together likt this.

 

Did any of you ask about a BD release specifically?

Edited January 20, 2007 at 06:41 PM by siur

[stevethefan]

Wow! It's really great that the people that were interviewed got to actually meet Celine.

They must have loved that. I can't wait to hear the stories about it.

 

I wish I were there NOW!

 

[NickMcNeel]

Here is some news about HD equipment for Celine "A new day.." .

http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/news/..._s_palace.shtml

 

Caesar's Palace Debuts Largest HD Video Screen in North America

 

New HD megasystem installed for Celine Dion's 'A New Day...'

 

LAS VEGAS

 

Arenas and stadiums of today don't seem quite complete without large-scale video (LSV) screens; now theaters are getting into the action, too. In a stadium or arena, spectators can see their team score a goal or watch the instant replay of an official's controversial call, while a screen in a theater allows the audience to view scene changes electronically and brings the performer "up-front and personal" to its audience.

 

And that is just what a large-scale video screen does at the newly completed, 4,000-seat Colosseum at Caesars Palace for singer Celine Dion's show, "A New Day..."

 

This $100 million facility has state-of-the-art theater lighting, sound and automation; but its crowning feature is a huge concave LSV screen measuring 33 feet 7 inches high by 109 feet 2 inches wide, a total of 3,668 square feet. Thought to be the largest seamless interior video screen in North America, it has 5,324,800 individual light emitting diode (LED) red, green and blue "dots," each with 1,024 variations (steps) in lighting intensity.

 

The lighting may be controlled down to 3 percent brightness, and air circulation fans are momentarily turned off during low audio passages. The digital screen controllers and screen have true high-definition television (HDTV), run at 60 fps-compared to Super 8mm film at 18 fps, 16mm film at 24 fps and a standard television and VHS video at 30 fps. The refresh rate is 240 Hz, avoiding the "tail" on moving images.

 

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc.'s Diamond Vision Systems Division, based in Atlanta, built the video screen, and it was installed under contract to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. of Tokyo by Wasatch Electric, a division of Dynalectric, of EMCOR Group Inc. of Norwalk, Conn.

 

Mitsubishi and EMCOR combined to produce and install the $6 million-plus screen. It's controlled by all-HDTV video front-end equipment, including HD cameras from Sony Electronics, which cost an additional $1.6 million.

 

"One of the many reasons [production company] CDA (Las Vegas) selected our product was because we have successfully controlled a high-definition screen using multiple digital screen controllers," said Todd Stih, regional sales manager for Mitsubishi. "Our processor is unique in that it has true HDTV processing built in. CDA felt these were important features, given that whomever they purchased the screen from would need to use multiple controllers, perfectly synchronized."

 

If the display runs in lower-resolution "pixel mode," it needs only two display controllers, using one-third the processing power.

 

Higher amounts of information and resolution created by dot control requires the extra processing power because each individual dot (LED) has full grayscale capability of 1,024 steps. The standard pixel configuration and processing used throughout the industry only provides this amount of grayscale capability for an entire pixel grouping of LEDs.

 

'SEAMLESS' DOOR

 

The content creators at Cine FX in Belgium did not want to use "pixel mode" because of the lower resolution, Stih said. Cine FX wanted a resolution that matched the signal they were providing; so dot mode was the only possible way. The Colosseum at Caesars Palace's six screen controllers is a first, however.

 

In addition, a remote-controlled door is seamlessly built into the screen, through which Dion magically makes her entrance.

 

The screen has a 1,600 Amp, 208 V, nine giant power cords and three-phase electrical service.

 

As anticipated, the scope of work included the arrival of 16 of the 64 modules, measuring 6 to 8 feet wide and 7 to 9 feet high, the first of each week for four weeks. One of the modules was specially constructed to include a stage entrance door that will allow Dion to walk through the screen onto the stage, and its arrival was expected by airfreight sometime during the third week.

 

Due to the Longshoremen Union lockout last fall, all shipments, except perishables, were held up. The module shipments were changed from Long Beach, Calif., to San Francisco, where they would travel by rail. The stage entrance door arrived on time, out of sequence, and was installed first.

 

Unfortunately, the rail shipment was lost and arrived after the fifth-week completion date. Space allotted for the installation was used up on the stage, so the modules were "flown" overhead or moved on 10-wheel roller dollies across the stage on masonite sheets.

 

Sixty-three modules arrived unexpectedly one morning with only a telephone call as warning the night before. These modules were in 19 shipping crates, 8 feet square and 10 feet high, and after staging, flanked the pools and fountains at Caesar's Palace.

 

With up to 350 employees and 151 road vehicles, Wasatch Electric employees mobilized in hours-ripping apart the crates with pry bars, cutting them up with a Skil saw and disassembling the steel transport structures for possible future mobility after Dion's contract expires.

 

The biggest challenge was to get the 9-foot 4-inch modules through what the general contractor called the "elephant door."

 

It was 10 feet high, 10 feet 5 inches wide and stood almost five feet off the asphalt grade. To get the modules through the door, workers used a long-fork carriage, extend-reach forklift for the first 60 modules and an extra-wide carriage for the remaining four modules, lifting them by two steel handles bolted on to the top. This barely got the modules in the door, where the load was lifted another four inches to the top of the forks to allow clearances for two 10-wheeled dollies, which measured four inches in height and had a three-inch deep trough for the steel angle iron shipping supports.

 

The larger modules weighed over 1,200 pounds and were lifted in place by a series of two-ton chain motors and two-ton chain falls, hung from the "grid" some 80 feet above the substage floor. Three quarter-inch plywood sheets with holes for the chains replaced the steel grates. This required three chain motors, one to lower the module from the deck to the sub stage and two pre-positioned at laser level points projected on the ceiling.

 

The installation of the special module with Dion's stage entrance door was another challenge, as it had to be seamless and undetectable to the audience. This meant the clearances were to the thousandths of an inch-or better yet, to a fraction of a millimeter, as everything on the installation was metric.

 

The first milestone was a lighting test scheduled to take place the Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday. These meant the electrical and one of the screen controllers had to be completely installed and the rough (one-line diagram) and intermediate inspections had to be completed, with permission to turn on the power to operate roughly one-fourth of the display.

 

Mark Foster, general manager, Lenny Morrill, senior project manager for Mitsubishi's Diamond Vision Division, the company's engineering representative from Japan and the lighting directors of CDA Productions (Las Vegas) Inc. attended this test.

 

The final milestone was turning on the whole display. At 10 p.m. one evening, after everyone had gone home, they powered up the main switch, subpanel switches and screen controllers. The screen looked great! There was one vertical black area because of a tripped circuit breaker and a few areas where the technicians replaced 5-inch square tiles.

 

The bottom line isn't that the video screen is the biggest indoor screen in North America. The bottom line is true HDTV, twice the resolution, 1,024 variations (steps) in intensity for each, individual dot, exceptional color purity, and total brightness control down to 3 percent.

[NickMcNeel]

It seems we will have not only DVD but and BD-its grate.

[Bellamy]

Here is some news about HD equipment for Celine "A new day.." .

http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/news/..._s_palace.shtml

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This is old news from 2003.

[ks1981]

hi everyon!

 

I've just got home from vegas after seeing celine's show on the 12th and 18th(dvd).

 

I have to say celine was looking absolutely stunning. I was 4th row from the front on the 18th directly behind the front camera. The mood that night wass totally amazing (especially in comparision to the 12th) everyone was going crazy for celine. Much more energy from the audience that night. Celine had glittery make-up round her eyes which looked great and I loved the way she played up to the camera on some of the songs.

 

There was a fan this for river deep mountain high and her hair was styled differently for this song (was a bit wild). The performance of this song is absolutely great she can really move! Her moves during the percussion part of the song is fabulous.

 

I confess I had a good tear through the song 'if i could' which worsened with a wink and smile from celine.

 

Her costumes are great she looked so good. I was stunned my how energetic each performance was. If you havnt seen the show - theres not a 'single' word to describe its excellence and powerfully captivating. It's the most memorable experiences I will ever have.

 

Also. Before I say that she did, I would rather say i think - Celine wore a lovely hairpiece during 'my heart will go on'....am i correct / or did i not see it first time around?

 

I pledge to anyone who hasn't seen the show - go see it if you can!!!

 

Thats it for now, im very tired. Its been a long journey home.

 

To all those still out in Vegas seeing the show - hope you have or had as much pleasure and enjoyment as I did.

 

Celine....Your the BEST!

[René 2]

thanks a lot for your review

[Céline's Blues]

ks1981^, thank you for recapping! So I can assume the first show was used for the main DVD/BD and the rest will be used for the different perspectives feature.

[celinefanonline]

cool can't wait to hear more from the fans!!

i'm waiting for you Love.

[thevoice]

ks1981^, thank you for recapping! So I can assume the first show was used for the main DVD/BD and the rest will be used for the different perspectives feature.

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what?! they can do it on the songs she is not singing live...but they cant take IIC for example and show it to us from diffrent nights , it will look and sound redicilous