SYDNEY – The X Factor, broadcast on Australia's Seven Network, featured a lighting design by Ian Anderson with Vari*Lite, ETC and Jands gear supplied by Chameleon Touring Systems. "The Vari*Lites are my preferred light for television," Anderson said of the rig, which included spots (50 VL3000s, 12 VL2000s) wash fixtures (14 VL3500s, 30 VL2000s, 16 VL3000s and 14 VL500s) and also 26 ETC Source Four Revolution fixtures, ETC Source Four profiles, 40 Chroma-Q Color Block LED fixtures and Jands HP12 dimmer rack.
"We have replaced five of the standard gobos to allow some different break-up looks and a couple of old favorites like the cone gobo which we've used heaps," Anderson said. He credited the Vari*Lites for their optics, zoom range, quickness, colors and bright output.
The VL3500 Washes, he admitted, were "way to bright for television, but the big beam look is what I was after. I run them at 30 percent most of the time." The VL3000s, he adds, are for audience lighting, and Anderson said he used the ETC Revolution fixtures for keylighting. "They're reliable, bright, the shuttering works well and they get the job done."
As for the Chroma-Q Color Blocks LED fixtures, "they're a good hole-filler," Anderson said. "They're not really lighting anything, but look damn pretty."
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Photos by Mark Bedson
