Chauvet lights Children’s Day in Budapest
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Lighting the main stage, András Praksch of Mobil Audio and Lighting Kft had to create looks for a long list of unfamiliar bands. Even the popular Fenyő came without his LD, which required busking on the part of Praksch. On top of that, since the festival took place during daylight hours, options to create captivating looks were limited.
Praksch met this challenge and helping him accomplish this was a collection of Chauvet Professional Maverick, STRIKE and COLORdash fixtures.
“I have been doing this festival for many years with the event producer JAM Btl,” said Praksch, who handles all lighting and electrical issues for the entire Ujbuda Gyermeknap grounds. “This is great fun, but there are challenges lighting bands when you don’t know them very well, especially during daylight hours. For example, I love gobos but can’t use them when it is so light outside. Luckily the output of my fixtures helped me stand out in the daylight. They also gave me enough options to create different looks for all the acts on stage.”
Key to helping Praksch created the looks he wanted on the festival stage were the 12 Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures in his rig. He hung the 440W moving heads on three moveable truss structures, one of which held six fixtures and was kept upstage, while the other two held three Mavericks each and were positioned one apiece stage left and stage right.
The Maverick MK2 Spot’s 3-facet prism, quick movements, and 13º to 37º zoom range helped him further reflect the music by changing up looks during performances
To engage the audience, even during the height of the day, Praksch had eight STRIKE 4 fixtures hung on the downstage grid. Used as blinders and for crowd lighting, the high output warm white fixtures were intense enough to standout despite the ambient light.
Also having an impact despite the sunlight were the 24 COLORdash Par-Hex 12 units in the rig. Praksch hung these washes on horizontal rows of truss that ran stage left and stage right.
(Jim Evans)
