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An Aqua Christmas at Billingsgate with White Light Events
Entitled 'Aqua', the Billingsgate season used lighting as its core design element, the advertising claiming that "the superb lighting design will fill this huge space with colour, with moving projections creating a sense of movement throughout the room". This followed discussions between The Ultimate Experience and White Light Events' lighting designer Jason Larcombe, with Larcombe using visualisations to explore possible design ideas. The final design married conventional lighting, automated lighting and the latest LED technology as well as video projection and high-quality audio. To achieve the end result, White Light Events collaborated with Autograph Sound and Metro Audio Visual to provide The Ultimate Experience with a complete technical service.
Larcombe's lighting design was intended to provide "a story, a journey for guests to take", splitting the venue into areas each with a different take on the aqua theme. These included the reception area, "lit delicately to reveal the beautiful architecture of the space with a strong sense of being underwater - almost like a tropical reef", a walk-through to take the guests through to dinner, and then a dining area where a 40m wide screen displayed projected images of rolling and crashing waves from four 7000 lumen LCD video projectors. The rest of the space was dressed to complement the video by Martin MAC500, MAC600 and MAC2000 and High End StudioSpot 250 moving lights, as well as Martin's new DC1 DJ projector. "When guests entered the dining area, the whole room was shimmering with light," Larcombe recalls.
The lighting equipment, as well as power for the temporary kitchens, was installed by a White Light Events team lead by Simon Jones, who installed trusses running the length of both parts of the venue carrying ETC Source Fours and the moving lights. The perimeter of the room was lit using White Light's own Architectural Uplighters, with the bar lighting using coloured fluorescent fittings and new ChromaQ ColorBlock LED fittings. The sound installation was designed by Autograph's Lee Dennison using a Meyer M2D line array, a Meyer UPJ system and Yamaha's new PM5D digital mixer; the sound installation was overseen by production engineer Tim Lynn of Showsound.
"I was delighted with White Light," says Mike Kershaw, managing director of The Ultimate Experience. "They were a pleasure to work with. And they delivered our brief with creativity and professionalism. The lighting design of the event was exactly as we wanted - it looked amazing."
photo: Louise Stickland
14th January 2005
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