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Lighting the City for Madrid’s Royal Event
The event was billed as Spain's 'wedding of the century'. On Saturday 22nd May Crown Prince Felipe, heir to the Spanish throne, and Letizia Ortiz were married in the country's first royal wedding in nearly a century. The Prince of Asturias and newly crowned Princess of Asturias exchanged vows at Almudena Cathedral in Madrid's old quarter.
As part of the cultural festivities, the city of Madrid instigated a celebration of its architecture through a temporary City Beautification project. The project consisted of lighting a number of culturally important buildings and monuments including the Puerta de Alcalá, the fountain in the Plaza de Cibeles, monuments to Neptune and Apollo, the Correos building (Post Office) and Museo Nacional Del Prado.
The experienced team of entertainment and architectural lighting professionals at company Cinelux SA was behind the remarkable success, boasting a technical and human resource team unequalled in Spain. Martin's Spanish distributor Ecler also played a key role in what has been called one of the biggest temporary lighting installations in the world.
The Cinelux technical team, which included top domestic and international experts, successfully incorporated the latest technology from leading brands in entertainment lighting. In terms of the role played, as well as fixture quantity, Martin certainly stood out. Martin MAC 2000swith dichroic litho gobosand MAC 600 moving heads constituted the basic lighting element with over 600 MAC moving head fixtures used altogether.
The response among citizens of the capital to the outstanding lighting overwhelmed the Madrid City Council, so much in fact that in order to avoid spontaneous gatherings of spectators anxious to see the unparalleled spectacle, it was suggested on the eve of the event that the lighting display be called off, thus avoiding foreseeable traffic and security problems.
Other lighting equipment used in the Madrid illumination project included:1,450 washlight and profile spot moving heads;500,000W of high power Space Cannon and Syncrolite projectors; high power Xenon lamp projection; 6, 12 and 18kW HMI projectors; 300 and 20,000W incandescent projectors; chromatic effects and texture projection from dichroic litho gobos;18 computerized systems for lighting control and approximately 20,000 metres of DMX control cable.
Successful deployment of the technology was possible thanks to an experienced and enthusiastic team, including: project director David García, technical director José Mª Recio González, assistant technical director Daniel López, Alberto Etxeberria (resource allocation), resource manager Nacho Acha-Orbea, lighting technicians Iñaki Irastorza, Juan García and David Azcano, technical producer Juan Antonio Corrales,
lighting operators Fco. Javier Perea, Eugenio Ventaja, Rubén Balboa, Mario Ortega, Oscar Marchena, Santiago Plana, Carmelo Martin and Roger Rey, and the production team of Guiomar Torio, Marisol Pérez, Daniel Arnaez, Marta González and Javier Froufe. Concept creation was by Pascua Ortega.
10th June 2004
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