Jevons says: "It was fairly energetic evening, which I wanted to reflect in the lighting and set design, working with my business partner, set designer Philip Winward. The concept behind it was a fairground Waltzer. I wanted it to be fast and frantic, the 'scream if you want to go faster!' idea. That's where the Maxedia came into its own, it enabled me to create the patterns on the Chroma-Q colour blocks, lots of sweeps and swirls, which were the very rhythmical looks I was going for, and I managed to achieve that very easily, it was a joy to use, it was so easy."
Vision operator Joey Jevons has used the Maxedia on several events, and it was her choice to use it this time. She is the creative side of Electric Fly, and she has found the Maxedia extremely easy to use. Within 20 minutes of being shown how to use it, she was up and running. Jevons chose the Maxedia and Maxxyz because of their ease of use and flexibility. He explains: "We loaded in at 7am that morning, there was no time for error, and we had to make sure everything was built by midday. I knew everything would be really quick to programme. The Maxxyz was programmed in advance, which means I could just tweak when we did the sound check. The scope was immense - it was really powerful."
Jevons said of the MAC fixtures: "The MACs were great too, I've worked with them for so long, I know exactly what they can do. I can programme them blind almost. No surprises, and good for quick work."
(Lee Baldock)
