Ninja Israel controlled by Compulite Vectors
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After gaining immense popularity worldwide the television format has finally landed in Israel, with the Israeli version hosted by Asi Azar and Rotem Sela.
The exhausting obstacle course was built at the Haifa Port in two weeks with a team of over 80 professionals using 4.5 tonnes of trusses. The rigging and obstacle course were built by the production riggers who arrived from the US and accompany the production worldwide.
Gil Teichman from Lighting Design Systems was in charge of lighting and sound. Mt. Midoriyama and the host's rig were created by Itzuv Bama. Lighting designers Ofer Jacobi and Avi-Yona Bueno (Bambi) were the creative spirit for the impressive lighting design.
Jacobi said, "Designing lights for obstacle courses at the Haifa Port was challenging because of the enormous location, the real challenge was finding a way to combine the lighting for the environment with the lighting for the obstacle course and the television lighting. The solution was using many moving lights and fixtures and making them work together."
After many months of work, including 3D simulation programming using WYSIWYG and the complicated installation of the large lighting set, Ninja Israel finally premiered on Israeli Television Channel 12 (Keshet).
The challenging set was programmed and controlled by Compulite's Vector Blue and Vector Ultra Violet consoles and controlled via Ethernet Network.
Ben-Harosh is a leading Vector programmer. He notes: "When Ofer Jacobi told me that we will be doing this project together, we knew that a 3D simulation will help us choose the lighting set and show Keshet TV's Managers how it would eventually look in real life.
“As for the lighting consoles, I chose Compulite's Vector consoles to run the whole rig. I have full confidence in these consoles as I have worked with them for years and I was certain they would get the work done easily, and so they did. I worked on large scale systems before, with a lot of fixtures and DMX universes, but this set was much more complicated due to its size (150m x 60m) and the mix of fixture types.
“Thankfully everything ran smoothly with the Vector Consoles. I used Vector Blue for the moving lights and Vector Ultra Violet for the TV fixtures, the separation was made to avoid interference between the two consoles.”
(Jim Evans)
