Serena Water Park is the largest indoor water park in Europe with approximately 18,000sq.m in total space. The conditions are very extreme. The temperature is around 34°-35° Celsius without a crowd and can climb as high as 40°C with a full audience. The humidity is tropical, around 90%.
38 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300 fixtures, plus eight Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300s, supplied by Soundata Oy in Helsinki, played the leading role in the lighting scheme used on the event. Lighting design was by Lauri Halonen and Jani Pellikka of Broadway Finland, operated by Riku Sourama of Sun Effects with a GrandMA full size, backed up with GrandMA Light.
Halonen, who acted as both executive producer and technical director for the event, said of the Alpha Beam 300, "Its size fits perfectly to our needs, and low power consumption was something we have been after for all the time we've done the event in that venue. The whole area was filled up with 38 Alpha Beam 300s from all directions, supported with eight Alpha Spot HPE 300s plus some wash lights. The visual, which we gained using Alpha Beams was definitely the best there has ever been. Even the ski slopes 150m away from the waterpark were covered with an 'Alpha Beam light show' from inside the park through the massive windows, which we didn't expect to happen."
(Jim Evans)
