WILTSHIRE, U.K. – Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) delivered full production, including lighting, sound, video and rigging, for an end of year party for technology designer / manufacturer Dyson. The event took place on the grounds of Bowood House in Wiltshire, within a TriSpan structure measuring 45 by 45 meters. Production company Bright worked once again with CPL on the event.
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CPL have been the event’s technical supplier for the last five years, and there’s always an exciting and ambitious brief to be fulfilled from production company Bright. This year their production designer and technical manager was Nick Diacre who liaised closely with CPL’s PM Mike Radford.
‘Luminescence’ was the theme of this year’s event, putting a big emphasis on lighting and visual presentation and treatment of the whole environment. CPL flew a 10 meter diameter circular truss in the middle of the main room on six ProLyft 650Kg motors –- picked for their lighter weight – rigged on six structural arms making up the inner tent frame. This provided a central point for lighting positions.
Also rigged on this circle was a Panasonic 21K projector beaming on to a custom 17 meter wide by 10 meter high curved screen from J&C Joel, installed at one end of the space, video mapped using a combination of Mad Mapper and Resolume running on a pair of MacBook Pros.
A central stage was built beneath the circular truss and used for a series of Awards presented earlier in the evening followed by a hi-energy performance by LED percussion troupe Spark!, after which it became the dance floor hub as the party really got started. Another stage towards the back of the space hosted a DJ and band for the whole evening.
Weight loading on the tent superstructure and arms was extremely challenging at 750Kg max, so lighting on the circle truss had to be carefully selected to produce the specific effects wanted whilst staying within the low SWL.
The lighting design, created by Liam Griffiths, included 8 x ADJ UV LED COB Canons (chosen for their weight and ability to strobe), flown from the main circle and a further 6 flown from 1.5 meter trusses dead-hung below each of the 6 outer tent arms. These arms were also rigged with a Clay Paky Mythos moving light, a Sharpy beam light and, 2 x Martin PAR Zooms per length.
Floor mounted at the base of each of these truss sections was a Vari*Lite VL3000 Spot, firing light up onto the white tent roof creating more textures and effects, which had great impact. Four Martin Jem compact hazers assisted with the atmospherics.
Positioned on the stage itself were six Clay Paky a.LEDA K10 LED wash fixtures fitted with B-Eye lenses and another four Mythos as well as some of the new GLP Impression X4 Bar 10 and Bar 20 tilting LED battens, mounted vertically, made available via A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd.
