Specialists in producing outdoor events on a large scale, the company was commissioned to provide the technical infrastructure for the massive $60 million Government-run event at the imposing Zocalo main square in Mexico City. This featured a display of aerial acrobatics (choreographed by Ric Birch), fireworks, rock music and parades, attended by tens of thousands of people.
Having worked with PR Lighting fixtures for the past six years he knew that lighting designer Victor Zapatero would find everything he needed to bring the concept to life, from within Simply Professional's inventory.
Zapatero used 24 of PR Lighting's Century Color 2500s to colour wash the iconic Cathedral that formed the backdrop to the stage at the North end. Using the long-life MSA2500 DE lamp, rated at 2000 hours, they were able to flood the Cathedral with colour over a long duty cycle. The Century Colors were supplemented by 40 of PR Lighting's compact and versatile Design 150 Pro fixtures.
Simply Professional also provided the production lighting on two stages, where in addition to the 200 acrobats, there were performances by other celebrities, including chart-topping Tigres del Norte.
For the Vuela Mexico stage, they provided 48 PR Lighting LED590 moving head LED washlights. For Arbol de la Vida (Tree of Life) - set against the Cathedral - they fielded a further 50 Design 150 Pro fixtures.
Sebastian Corkidi said that all PR Lighting fixtures had performed outstandingly. "The architectural fixtures provided great colour saturation, power and dispersion while I was impressed by the fast response of the XLED's - which generate great light power, with an incredible strobe effect."
All the lighting was controlled from a GrandMA Full Master console and MA Lite back up. All PR Lighting fixtures were supplied by Mexican distributor, Hermes Music.
(Jim Evans)
