Spectra will supply a full range of lighting and video equipment, together with technical coordination and crew. The company will have 26 people working on site in the month running up to the event. This is not the first time that Spectra has handled such a major technical project. Swedish television company, SVT, chose Spectra as the official lighting supplier and technical coordinator for the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest which took place at the Stockholm Globe.
The spec will include some 800 lanterns, of which about 300 will be intelligent moving fixtures, mounted for the stage lighting alone. In what will mark it out as a unique event, 15 High End Catalyst systems will be employed in the production, the largest Catalyst production ever. Three operaters on seven lighting control desks will control everything. The lighting will be pre-programmed in Spectra’s new WYSIWYG studio.
(Ruth Rossington)
