The 2010 OTO (Osobnost Televiznej Obrazovky) Awards was staged at the New National Theatre in Bratislava, and celebrated the very best in Slovakian television from 2010, acknowledging talent, skills and innovation for all areas from news reporting and sports presentation to documentary, comedy and drama.
The star-studded event was televised live on Slovakia's main national channel, RTVS, and lit by the country's top TV lighting designer Martin Kubanka, who used Robe moving lights at the core of his rig. Lighting, sound and AV equipment was supplied by Slovakia's number one rental house, Q-99.
Kubanka's starting point for the lighting was the circus theme suggested by Daniel Sichman's stage set, which featured an intimate performance area and was spherical shaped like a big top venue. The auditorium was also partially masked off and shaped in a semi-circular format to match.
In the roof, above the stage, a curved truss circled the main presentation space, and inside this were a series of straight trusses which gave rigging points for many of the lighting fixtures, along with the high and medium resolution LED surfaces which framed the stage. There was also a large LED floor supplied by Q-99, and they also provided and built the other LED areas of the stage set including the steps.
Over 50 Robe fixtures were used – a mix of 14 x ColorSpot 1200E ATs, 16 x ColorWash 1200E ATs and 16 x ColorMix 575 ATs. On the furthest downstage truss were 6 Robe REDBlinder 2â—Â96 LTs, used for warming those audience members sitting in and around tables at the front of the stalls area.
The majority of units were positioned on the overhead rig, with 4 ColorMixes onstage flanking a giant rotating scenic replica of the golden OTO Awards trophy, and also providing nice effects for the wide camera shots. Six ColorSpot 1200E ATs were positioned to the left and right of the steps at the sides of the back stalls areas, and also used for the dramatic wide-angle camera shots.
Q-99 also supplied a host of generic lights, a full white light package, LED moving lights and high powered flower effects for the OTO Awards. All lighting was controlled via a grandMA full size console operated by Michael Schmidt. Another grandma full size operated by Tomas Lecky was controlling all the ambient video playback material for the screens, floor and steps, along with VT play-ins for the screens, all of which was stored on an MA VPU Plus video processing unit.
