Professional Lighting & Production - Fall 2018 | Page 46

Anolis LED luminaires were specified to bring colour, brightness,
and additional vibrancy to the Welsh seaside resort of Rhyl. They
are used to light key landmarks in the town, including the 76-m
high Sky Tower, which is prominent on the seafront skyline, as well
as the front façade and fly tower of the Pavilion Theatre, the clock
tower, seafront waterfall, and new sea wall viewing shelters.
The first phase of lighting involved highlighting the sea wall
and three new viewing shelters with Anolis ArcSource 1MC
RGBWs. Twenty-four ArcSource Outdoor 48MC RGBWs and 13
ArcLine Optic 36 RGBW linear luminaires light the Sky Tower and
Pavilion Theatre facade.
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LD Rik Uyttersprot from GRAViTY Design injected an edgy and raw
lighting aesthetic to help showcase the stark bare stage production
values of WOW at the Kortrijk Xpo in Belgium. The performance
comprised over 50 dance segments, which were presented by
classic and contemporary students from the Pirouette dance school.
Uyttersprot used 20 of Robe’s Spiider LED wash beams and 48
LEDBeam 150 moving lights, which were part of a new purchase by
Roeselare-based lighting rental company La Strada Fashion through
Robe’s Benelux distributor, Controllux.
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The 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games kicked off
with a spectacular opening ceremony at Barranquilla’s Roberto
Meléndez Stadium, featuring projection-mapped visuals on the
stadium field and huge LED screens using Avolites Ai RX8 servers.
During the ceremony, the 47,000-capacity crowd experienced a
video concept based on a story of time travel from the future to the
present, highlighting local culture, folklore, and music. “We needed
to manage a lot of pixels for this project, six outputs for mapping
and six outputs for LED screens, DMX, and SMPTE control, and direct
SDI outputs,” says show producer Victor Ariza. “We needed a server
that had all of these things, and features like the option to quickly
warp the geometry of the outputs – and be robust and trustworthy.”
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The Safe Place for Youth, which is a drop-in centre providing various support
services for homeless young people in Venice Beach, CA, recently received a ceil-
ing and ambient light-rejecting electric projection screen from Elite Screens for
its Education and Employment Room.
The screen uses Elite Screens’ CineGrey 5D material to allow high-resolu-
tion images and video to be projected onto it clearly and crispy in a room that
experiences a lot of sunlight coming through a large, street-facing window that
would wash out a regular flat panel display. The young people at the centre
use the screen to present and work on various projects, including videos and
graphic editing.
“The screen is great! It’s super high resolution with a pop of colour and it’s a
big upgrade over our white wall,” says Cody Metzger, development officer at Safe
Place for Youth.