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Singapore National Day Parade Celebrated with MA Lighting Technology
The National Day Parade (NDP) on August 9 in Singapore is held in commemoration of Singapore's independence from Malaysia. It was usually placed in the Padang or Singapore National Stadium, but this year the event was held for the first time in Marina Bay Stadium with the world’s largest floating stage. The celebrations of the national day include an amazing exhibit of fireworks that marks the pinnacle of the parade. It is accompanied by military parades, colourful demonstrations of different cultural groups, stunts by the Singapore Armed Forces parachutists and choirs by school children.
To give this important event an adequate show lighting designer Paul Collison used not less than two grandMA full-size, one grandMA light, one grandMA ultra-light and 14 MA NSPs to control nearly 1,000 fixtures connected by a 1.2km optic-fibre network.
“I have used the MA system almost exclusively for the last few years so there really was never a question of what type of control system I was going to use,” explained Paul Collison. “My only real thoughts had to do with how I would break it down. As I had lots of time to program the show, I decided to operate the system myself with the aid of Addam Crawford as second operator/production manager. With almost 1,000 fixtures it was difficult to fit all the fixtures in to one session. We did and it worked. Over 31,400 parameters made up the first session with the second running some LED and dimmer channels. It was an awesome sense of power to be able to control so many moving lights with what seemed to be apparent ease. I can say no reservation that this show could not have been programmed on any other console as simply or as easily as it was on an MA.”
The impressive lighting rig consisted amongst others of 420 Martin MAC 2000 washes, 256 DTS XR8 575 washes, 200 LED Happy Tubes, 72 Vari*Lite VL3000 profiles, 64 DTS XM1200 profiles, 48 DTS 250 washes and 48 Martin MAC
2000 profiles.
The technical director of the National Day Parade was Nick Eltis. Production manager and assistant programmer was Adam Crawford. Project manager for Showtec was Leroy Mong and for Procon Simon Kayser. Showtec delivered the lighting equipment; Procon was sub-contract supporter.
5th September 2007
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