More details from Clay Paky (www.claypaky.it):
The cocktail party was held with a Yarra Valley produce theme. Three truckloads of trees were shipped in to construct a lush forest. “It seemed that every time we put some lights up, half an hour later they were encased in branches,” said Grenfell. “So it wasn’t so much a matter of focusing, more a matter of pruning!”
Grenfell wanted a look of dappled light coming through the trees and used the Clay Paky B-Eyes in a static mode to overcome the challenge of rigging a fixture that delivers a fat and wide-angle beam within the venue’s four meter trim.
“If you take the B-EYEs out of their disco / kaleidoscope mode into a nice fat breakup beam and then use the inbuilt effects to very slowly put orange onto a dark orange, it really gives a great theatrical look of light shining through trees,” he said. “Clay Paky innovate so many things; they came up with the Sharpy which has taken over in lighting and now they have the B-EYE which I really like. The effects the B-EYE produces are like none other.”
Added to the eight B-EYE’s were Clay Paky Alpha Profile 700’s, using the real foliage as shadows and breakup gobos.
Lighting was supplied by Resolution X.
