Lighting Adds Glamour to Miss Florida USA 2012 Pageant

DAVIE, FL — Stefan DeWilde, LD and set designer for the Miss Florida USA 2012 pageant, lit the show with a lighting rig and consoles provided by PRG. The event was telecast live in HD from Broward College’s Bailey Concert Hall to viewers across the state. “On a live television show, you only get one chance to get things right, so I needed an extremely reliable console,” DeWilde said. PRG provided a grandMA full-size and grandMA light console, sourced via grandMA distributor A.C.T Lighting.

“I only had eight hours to program the show,” DeWilde added. “I needed a console that could easily work with five different types of automated lights, hundreds of conventional fixtures and an LED wall,” he added.

The rig included a dozen each of Vari*Lite VL5A and 6C+ fixtures, 15 Martin TW1s, 12 Martin Mac 550s, 36 Sea Changers, more than 1,300 conventional fixtures plus two Lycian Super Arc 2K spots. Additional visual support came from an Arkaos VJ DMX media server and video wall.

“I programmed the sequences and then called the show cues for my operator,” DeWilde said. “When live changes were required, which happened often, having the flexibility to implement them in seconds was a huge advantage.”

Karina Baez was crowned the winner and will represent the state as Miss Florida in the national Miss USA competition.

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