International News

CAIRO – Filmed in front of a live audience, the set of the new game show franchise, Minute To Win It, features 48 of PR Lighting’s XR 200 Beam fixtures, 36 of the XLED 1037 and 24 of the XL 300 Beam. “They provided superior color mixing and the designer was also impressed with the light weight — as well as the fact that the fans ran virtually silently, which is essential for a TV production, ” said Hamed Arafa, CEO of Hi-Lights Egypt.

RIGA, Latvia – For a Kings Of Leon outdoor show here, LD Paul Normandale used 24 VL3500 Wash and seven VL3015LT Spot Luminaires in conjunction with a LED video wall. The event took place at the 20,000-capacity Mezaparks Stage here. Company NA provided the fixtures.

ARMIDALE, Australia – For Sunset Music Festival, an EDM music festival held at the Armidale Showgrounds here, Sydney-based Showtime Promotions and Productions provided 12 Nexus 4×4 panels from Chauvet Professional. “We hung the panels on tiered trussing, which worked very well with the curved roof structure of Showtime’s stage to create an intense focus of light.” said Showtime’s Adriano Mercurio.

TOKYO – LD Michael Meacham of iDesign Productions sought a visual design for ELE Tokyo that would help the nightclub stand out. His lighting design, which leverages the club’s unique architectural features, includes 16 Rogue R1 Beams, two Legend 412Z washes and six Strike 882 strobe panels from Chauvet Professional. 

WILLEBROEK, Belgium — AED Rent, based here, provided LD Luc Peumans with fixtures to support the latest tour for Belgian/Dutch rock band Clouseau’s latest tour. Peumans met the challenge of creating a “large looking” show with fewer lighting fixtures with an assortment of gear that included a dozen of Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE K20s.” They inspired a lot of looks for this show,” he noted.

BLACKBURN, U.K. – Lighting and visuals specialist HSL, based here, supplied a floor package for the European leg of Massive Attack’s summer tour. LD Tim Oliver’s overall visual design included having lights in front of and behind the screens, and the rig was also designed to be easy to rig, break down and transport between festival gigs. As with previous Massive Attack shows, back-lighting played a key role in retaining a sense of visual mystery and magic.

SEOUL – Highlighting its new headquarters in Seoul’s new Digital Media City, Korean TV network broadcaster MBC is using eight impression Spot Ones from GLP to light the building’s exterior. The eight impression Spot Ones are mounted in locally sourced domes to protect them from the extreme weather conditions as they throw their high output beams over a distance of 20 to 30 meters.

KASTELLAUN, Germany – The Nature One music festival, which took place here July 31-Aug. 2, drew some 72,000 visitors with a roster of 300 international DJs and EDM acts. The event gave LD Thomas Gerdon the chance to use GLP’s new large-format impression X4 XL for the first time. Gerdon already had 64 impression X4 heads incorporated into the stage design but managed to work in 12 additional X4 XL fixtures.

ERKLENZ, Germany – Century-old monastery buildings provided a distinctive backdrop for the Electrisize Open Air Festival. LD Frank Zander used 24 Elation EVLED 256 panels to create four large LED screen columns to anchor the stage and then placed 12 EVLED 1024 LED panels in front of the DJ to present high-res graphics and logos. Further lighting was provided by eight Elation Platinum Beam 5R fixtures for bright aerial effects.

WARRINGTON, UK – Colour Sound Experiment supplied more than 550 moving lights plus hundreds of other lighting fixtures along with rigging and trussing for two stages at the 2014 Creamfields EDM festival, staged at Daresbury Estate, near Warrington. Colour Sound’s team was again led by crew chief Jon Rickets, and they all worked with creative and technical production specialists LarMac LIVE on the project.