The scenic design by Marco Calzavara includes a 360 degree white cyclorama which encases the whole studio set, including the seating stands and the stage. "It was an obvious artistic decision to make in filling this space with colour and texturing" explains Quini, but he wanted to go beyond just gobo and lighting effects to moving images and photographic impressions.
The twelve fixtures are being supplied by Di & Di Lighting & Truck SRL from Rome. They are rigged around a circular truss in the middle of the studio, each focussed onto its portion of the cyc with the overall image soft-edged together using one of the DigitalSpots most powerful features. They are used to produce a diverse variety of different scenic looks and effects - from enormous lips and pop art backgrounds to swirling psychedelic and kaleidoscopic effects to dreamy cloud, water and environmentally inspired impressions.
Quini is using a mixture of the DigitalSpot 5000DT's onboard media content, combined with some specially created video and stills clips, which are all stored in the fixture's onboard media server. The show has approximately 25O specially prepared files to choose from, of which they are currently using about 120 in each show.
(Jim Evans)
