Lighting and set designer Robert Grobler from Global Events is using both Robe moving lights and Robe StageQube 324 video panels in his design. "We wanted to create a generic visuality that looked great on camera and which presented a real 'live' feel to the show - even though it's shot at the Urban Brew studios, Randburg."
Grobler's rig contains 24 Robe StageQube 324 panels, 13 Robe ColorWash 1200E ATs and 11 Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs, all rigged in the studio's overhead grid.
Flexibility is also a key with the lighting and visuals. Eighty per cent of the show is music based, featuring two mainstream Afrikaans artists each week, together with two newcomers to the music scene. The two main artists both perform three songs and the newcomers one, accompanied by the eight-piece Sweepslag house band lead by Jaconell Mouton.
The StageQubes are fed with content stored on and created in an Arkaos media server, controlled, together with all the Robes, 5K fresnels, PARs, red fluorescent tubes and several strings of fairy lights - by his grandMA full size lighting console.
(Jim Evans)
