Vista by Chroma-Q sets style at Wella Awards
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The Awards are the pinnacle of the annual contest, which recognises some of the UK and Ireland’s most impressive hairdressing talent. Hosted by TV’s Vernon Kay and hairdresser Patrick Cameron, it was attended by 800 industry peers.
With the event putting creative talent centre-stage in a venue steeped in rock ‘n’ roll history, and music’s inescapable influence on the fashion world, the occasion called for a concert-style lighting rig to give it an energetic, theatrical look and feel, whilst at the same time still delivering for its corporate AV requirements.
As a long-time Vista user, Steve knew the control system would deliver his vision, and be able to produce both corporate and rock ‘n’ roll aspects.
He comments: “Vista’s creative visual workflow and graphical interface make complete sense. I can use my time more productively by getting the design into the desk quickly and, in combination with the fantastic FX Engine, keep my attention on the show itself.”
Taking advantage of the Roundhouse’s circular space, Steve’s design was based on the clock face, with 12 spines splaying from a circular truss above the stage and guests.
He utilised Vista 3 to provide lighting & media control for a rig of over 300 fixtures and over 16 universes. In addition to over 130 Martin VDO Sceptron 10 pixel-mapped LED video battens, the rig featured Claypaky Sharpys; Prolights ArenaCOBs; Martin MAC Auras, Viper Profiles & Viper Performances; Ayrton MagicDots; Color Kinetics IW Blasts; Vari-Lite VL500s; Robe Robin 100s; Philips SL eSTRIP 10s; plus 2K & 1K Fresnels.
Steve comments: “With the Sceptrons placed in Vista’s matrix, I could easily create some stunning, pixel-mapped effects along the spines using Vista’s FX engine. This negated the need for pixel-mapping in an external media server.”
The full lighting rig was supplied by Lite Alternative, project managed by John Ginley and crew chief, Gareth Pritchard.
(Jim Evans)
