HSL's Mike Oates project managed, working closely with production manager Mike Bryan and lighting designer Andy Hook, following HSL's successful collaboration with the Scout Association's World Jamboree in Hylands Park, Chelmsford in the summer (see Lighting&Sound International magazine, October 2007).
The lighting brief included illuminating all of the arena floor and seating areas as well as the stage, for which they rigged over 300m (284ft) of trussing plus a complex cable management trussing system. This was necessary as cables could not be dropped in normal positions because parts of the arena floor had to be kept clear for the vehicles to enter, exit and perform.
For moving lights, HSL supplied 20 Robe ColorSpot 700E ATs rigged above the stage plus 16 ColorWash 700E ATs, 24 Robe ColorWash 1200s and 28 ColorSpot 1200s, all of which were used for general stage and audience lighting.
Twelve Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs were rigged over the main arena floor and used for audience lighting and gobo projections with a series of custom Scout gobos. The additional power of the 2500s enabled the images to be projected that much further.
For generics, they utilised 24 8-lites with scrollers and 12 4-lites with scrollers to fill the whole arena with colour washes. 28 PixelLines were arranged on two angled trusses per side flanking the central video screen.
Andy Hook programmed and ran the show on his own Jands Vista console that AC Lighting had sold to Hook's company Shock Solutions earlier in the year for the Jamboree. All dimming was Avolites ART, all data was distributed via an ArtNet network, and mains distribution was via HSL's 72-way distros.
HSL supplied a crew of 12. HSL's Rupert Reynolds was in charge of the lighting rigging, while Danny Spratt dealt with the rigging requirements of Concert Sound and video suppliers ADI.
(Jim Evans)
