Star Church reaches more worshippers with Chauvet
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With this issue in mind, the dynamic Indonesian church turned to its long-time vendor Asiis to create a video-friendly lighting package for its newly built campus, which is located in a shopping mall.
Asiis met Star Church’s expectations by creating a carefully planned lighting system that includes over 65 Chauvet Professional fixtures and is controlled by a ChamSys MagicQ MQ80 console.
“The HD video camera is much less forgiving than the human eye,” says Asiis’ Andy Mulya Sutikno, who oversaw the project. “The lighting in Star Church’s new building was designed to provide the colour temperatures and smooth, even fields of light that would look great on camera without detracting from the live experience inside the church.”
Key to the new lighting design are the 16 Ovation F-165WW Fresnel fixtures that are flown on truss just beyond the stage apron. “The colour temperature and consistency of the light from these fixtures results in very natural skin tones on camera,” said Andy. “They also make it easy for the church to go from covering the whole stage to focusing on specific individuals. Moreover, with the even light field there are no distractive shadows.”
In addition to the Ovation fixtures, the new lighting system features 12 COLORdash Par-Hex 12 units, as well as 12 Rogue R2 Beam, eight Rogue R2 Spot and six Rogue R3 Wash fixtures, plus eight Ovation C-805FC cyc lights and two LED Followspot 120ST fixtures. There are also 12 COLORband T3 USB fixtures from Chauvet DJ in the rig that work in conjunction with the Ovation cyc fixtures to provide backlighting. For atmospherics, the rig includes two Vesuvio RGB and two Amhaze Whisper foggers.
The versatility of fixtures in the church’s new lighting system affords it the opportunity to create a variety of looks for its live and video audience. Having multi-functional fixtures offers the added benefit of space savings.
Asiis selected the ChamSys MagicQ MQ80 for the church, because it is powerful, yet intuitive enough for volunteers to master.
(Jim Evans)
