The event which followed the Awards Ceremony at the Royal Opera House, utilised multiple spaces in the venue, including the Great Room, the Ballroom, reception and peripheral areas.
It is the third year that Renegade's Nick Gray has been involved in designing the high profile showbiz event, working for production company AD Events. The challenge was to take some of the classic lighting elements from last year's successful scheme, and integrate them with a totally new look and feel for the Great Room and other spaces.
Chris Fyfe was Renegade's technical project manager, leading their crew of five, and overseeing the get-in and rigging of all the production lighting equipment, which was supplied by White Light. Specialist interior fixtures came from Shok London.
The Great Room hosted the dinner for over 1000 guests, for which Gray created a dramatic, interesting, breakup effect around the room utilizing 20 Source Four profiles, with an additional 20 Source Fours boosting the themeing on some tables.
He also used the Grosvenor's house lighting rig consisting of 28 Vari*Lite 2000 Washes and eight V*L 2500 spots to help set the scene, augmented with an additional eight V*L 3000 Spots from White Light. One hundred and twenty wireless battery powered GDS Lightware LED wireless up-lighters were positioned around the room illuminating the walls and other features. These are extremely quick and easy to deploy in situations like this, needing no cabling, complete with their wireless colour changing abilities.
For control, an Avolites Pearl 2004 desk was used, operated by Matthew Rimmer.
(Jim Evans)
