Several stands included a number of lights distributed by Lightpower, and there were a great many Clay Paky moving heads among the lights chosen. Clay Pakys were used, together with other lights distributed by the German company, on the Daimler AG, Volkswagen AG and Audi AG stands.
One particularly innovative design was to be found at the BMW AG stand in Pavilion 11. The 9000sq.m stand was illuminated to daylight intensity with 930 moving lights and 700 spotlights. It took 60 DMX-Universen units controlled by three full-size grandMA2s, all networked together with eight MA network processing units (NPUs), to achieve this.
The fact some of the cars at this stand moved on a mini-circuit inside the pavilion posed a particular challenge. To illuminate them properly and follow them on their way around the circuit, the Rockservice team - who dealt with sound, lighting and rigging in cooperation with the designer SfS Project - used a new type of automated tracking system, currently only rentable from Rockservice.
(Jim Evans)
