K-LOVE Fan Awards shine with Bandit Lites
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With the awards taking place at the Opry House, home to live broadcasts of the Grand Ole Opry, production designer Scott Moore and lighting designer Mark Carver had to fashion a high-energy rig that could be installed quickly enough to allow for programming by Carver, programmer Andre Petrus and media programmer Tony Fransen, and then effectively disappear for the Opry’s Tuesday, Friday and Saturday night shows.
“There is a very limited amount of space in which to rig the various bits of automation required to conceal the set changes, so there is always a great deal of give and take between my production designs, Mark Carver's lighting design and the realities of working around the Opry Production,” said Moore.
The result was a versatile lighting rig coupled with a production design that filled up the video canvas that enveloped as much of the physical Opry stage as possible.
“We wanted to make sure that when we had a cut-away shot back into the audience or a jib or dolly shot from the audience that there was ample lighting to give the viewer at home a real sense of the space and the audience,” said Moore. “Mark did a brilliant job of that.”
Bandit Lites supplied more than 200 fixtures for the celebration including Martin MAC Viper Profiles, Martin MAC Auras, VL 3500 Spots, GLP X4, GLP X4S, Elation Paladins, Chauvet Rogue RH1 Hybrids, Clay Paky B-EYE K20, Clay Paky Mythos, Solaris Flares and two grand MA 2 Full consoles and two grand MA 2 lite consoles for control.
Clay Paky B-EYES and GLP X4 provided colour tone and ambiance, while Elation Paladins and Flares supplied effects and song punctuation. Martin MAC Auras highlighted the audience during both awards and performances and Martin MAC Vipers were used for specials, gobo specials and back lighting, while Mythos and RH1 Hybrids created sharp beams and gobo patters for a layer of texture.
(Jim Evans)
