Designed by Dominic Toft, the set was made entirely from Perspex and Barco MiStrip LEDs, featuring a wide, shallow set of steps at the front, leading onto the stage, with a MiStrip back wall that curved up and above the stage to form a ceiling over the area, producing a cylindrical style structure.
Pederson used the latest spec Catalyst supplied by Ross Williams, with one output making comprehensive use of the Mix Window facility to zone the output to cover each of the four contestants individually.
He used four Mix Windows per contestant plus an additional Mix Window applied across the whole MiStrip surface, running on two layers per contestant and six layers of overall imagery.
The Catalyst was run from a WholeHog 3 control console, and the cues were triggered by MIDI show control from Lumina, who were controlling the games machine and scoring.
"It worked absolutely beautifully," says Pedersen. "The Mix Windows made it simple for me to ident each contestant, and when the producers asked if they'd be able to see the scores across the set, it was also really straightforward to make that happen for them."
(Jim Evans)
