The concept was realised by event designer Joe Rigotti and consisted of white stretched fabric over a custom made frame.
Lighting designer Glen Goodwin explains: "Each piece of the stage back drop is 4' wide and 30' tall. I lit each row top and bottom with a PixelLine 110 - setup so I had control of each strip. The challenge was make each function hosted in the ballroom look different. I needed to be able to transform the look of the stage and be able to create kinetic colour changes to make the set come alive."
The event was over three days - each day the ballroom had three room transformations - breakfast, lunch and a party at night. The lighting rig played an important part during the changes, the automated fixtures including MACs, ShowGuns and VLs - allowed maximum effect and efficient transitions between functions.
Goodwin continues: "I chose PixelRange fixtures because of their brightness, compactness, internal effects and ease of use. I particularly like that you can go from manual to DMX very easily and when you return to manual - it remembers what setting was last used." A Hog IPC with 5 universes was used for control and ESP vision for pre-programming.
(Jim Evans)
