The lighting system used on stage had some limitations due to the shape of venue and the stage, the only possibility was to use a truss of 12m height with no room to get any front lights. Thus, the CCG lighting crew used the Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1200 from the control area which was about 40m from the stage.
A large LED wall was used to send different contents and pictures and because of that, the quantity of light on stage had to be balanced with the Clay Paky Alpha Wash and Alpha HPE 1200.
"The light output of the Alpha 1200 is great, especially using the narrow beam; we could see clearly the aerial effects", commented Michel Khairallah, CCG head of light department.
"We decided to add 24 Alpha Beam 1500, 12 for each side at 5m of distance from each other, and shooting them on the sky, creating great crossing beam effects." Says lighting designer Giovanni Zucchnali . "We also added 24 Alpha Beam 300, some of them on top of the sides of the LED screen, outside the stage, some of them on front of the stage, and some other right above the control area. In this way we could "enfold" the audience, under 48 beams of light. The effect was exciting."
"The entire system was extremely reliable, the NPU and the Optocore DD6NE together with the GrandMa2 full size with the networking process unit were perfect as usual", says Jalal Dudin, CCG managing director.
A total of 86 Clay Paky units were used for the Senior Convocation - 24 Clay Paky 1200 Wash, 12 Clay Paky 1200 Spot, 12 Clay Paky 1200 Profile, 24 Clay Paky 1500 Beam and 14 Clay Paky 300 Beam.
(Jim Evans)
