Trainor's independent exuberance was on full display during her recent appearance before millions of viewers on The Today Show, supported by an appropriately dynamic lightshow featuring a collection of Chauvet Professional Next NXT-1 and Nexus 4x4 LED panels provided by WorldStage.
Lighting designer Peter Greenbaum used the Next NXT-1 and Nexus 4x4 to create a seamless look on The Today Show's Summer Concert Series stage. "I wanted the lighting to pull everything together on stage, so we got this free-flowing ambience that caught viewers up in Meghan's performance," he said. "Meghan's songs are so lively and full of fun, we couldn't create a lightshow that was anything less."
Greenbaum used 20 Next NXT-1 panels in his design. All of the panels were placed on the stage deck, six lining the 12' runway and 14 masking the upstage musician's riser. The LD placed these panels as close together as possible to create a unified look on the runway. Complementing these panels were 12 Nexus 4x4 units, three on each of the stage's four upright truss structures.
Arranged in diamond patterns, the Nexus panels were oriented toward the bottom section of the downstage truss and top section of the upstage truss, helping to create a multi-dimensional textured look. "We used the Nexus panels as diamonds rather than squares," said Greenbaum "This configuration added an extra element of fun to the design, which was fitting given the nature of the performance."
(Jim Evans)
