LOS ANGELES, CA – 4Wall Entertainment Los Angeles recently teamed with LD Jeff Ravitz of Intensity Advisors to provide lighting for CeeLo Green: Talking to Strangers, a new show on Fuse TV.
Talking to Strangers features R&B star Green in the role of talk show host, interviewing musical guests while also hosting their performances on set. The first season will include appearances by Lupe Fiasco, Keri Hilson, Train and others.
“All interview shows have some built-in demands to make people look their best on-camera,” Ravitz said. “Achieving optimum angles is quite different, so we needed to add a great deal of truss on the Red Studios soundstage to create the best lighting positions.
“Also, unlike many talk shows, the musical performance area was in the same location as the interview set,” Ravitz added. “We had to do a complete changeover before the bands played. The light plot had to accommodate many different uses on the same stage space.”
To set the stage for this dual purpose set, Ravitz chose a lighting package from 4Wall LA that included mainstays such as ETC Source 4 Fixtures and Sensor Packs, as well as LED fixtures such as Color Kinetics ColorBlasts and Martin MAC 301s.
“The director requested a footlight look defining the front edge of the curved stage,” Ravitz said. “I chose Color Kinetics iW Blast TRs to allow for naturally colored, subtle uplight that could also shift from warm to cool and could be programmed to do some very wild chases for the musical performances.
“The ETC equipment worked perfectly for key lighting and other fixed purposes, but the Vari*Lites were our ‘go to’ fixtures for variety, set lighting, and to get us out of trouble when positions changed with no warning,” Ravitz continued. “The MAC 301s were another texture for exciting sparkle as well as lighting people and scenery.”
Talking To Strangers premiered June 22 on Fuse TV, and will air throughout the summer.
For more information, please visit www.4wall.com and www.intensityadvisors.com.
CeeLo Green: Talking to Strangers (Partial gear list):
24 ETC Source 4 Ellipsoidals
40 ETC Source 4 Pars
74 Coemar LED Parlites
28 Color Kinetics LED Colorblast TRX
20 Color Kinetics LED iW Blast TR fixtures
13 Martin MAC 301 Wash LEDs
23 Vari*Lite VL3000 Spots
13 Vari*Lite VL3500 Spots
3 Vari*Lite VL3500 Washes
2 Ultratec Radiance Hazers
1 High End Systems Road Hog Full Boar Console
1 ETC 24x2k Sensor Pack
