LVW reached out to Elation lighting who in turn put them in touch with Jay Cid of Professional Sound and Lighting Products, who was integral in determining the best Elation lighting products for the space. In response, a turn-key solution was created that provided Focus with an outstanding and cost effective lighting system.
Ken Toal, Focus on the Family's audio visual services manager, recently reflected on the project. "The design we settled on was due to Ben and his team being willing to go the extra mile in order for us to get the desired functionality and performance." LVW and PSLP designed a system based on the types of shows and presentations that occur in the Chapelteria such as religious services, conferences, monthly meetings and special events.
"The existing lighting system was outdated and Focus wanted to take advantage of LED technology to provide a user experience that would provide a 'wow!' factor for the audience," states LVW's Ben Gleason.
The new lighting system consists of four compact Rayzor Q12 Zoom LED wash luminaires mounted upstage along with six SixPar 200 colour changers equipped with barn doors. Downstage lighting consists of four Platinum Spot 15R Pro CMY colour mixing moving heads and nine SixPar 300 colour changers, also with barn doors. A pair of additional Platinum Spot 15R Pro's work from the stage as do six ELED QA Strips, quad LED one-metre strip lights used to highlight interchanging set pieces. The entire system is controlled via an Elation-distributed HedgeHog 4 lighting console.
Most important for Focus and LVW when choosing the Elation lighting fixtures was their reliability and quality along with low power consumption and a price that fit with the budget, Ben says. "Also, the amount of flexibility and power achieved by incorporating the HedgeHog 4 with the lighting system allows Focus personnel to create atmospheres and scenes that simply were not possible, or conceivable, with the prior system."
(Jim Evans)
