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Stage Electrics Supply Color Web and Lighting Package For ‘The National Lottery – 1vs100’
Stage Electrics has supplied Chroma-Q Color Web, moving lights, dimming, generics and control for the new BBC1/Endemol National Lottery show ‘1vs100’, hosted by Dermot O’Leary. The show is broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC1.
Simon Baker, project manager for Stage Electrics, worked closely with lighting director Darryl Noad to put together one of the largest Color Web systems that has ever been used on a studio TV Show.
Color Web was wrapped around the perimeter of the studio to form a 360 degree screen 125 metres long by four metres high. Stage Electrics is the largest stockist of Color Web available for hire in the UK.
Color Web provides flexibility and creative possibilities for displaying low-resolution visual effects. Its modular design, consisting of flexible lightweight one metre sections which clip together, allows variable size and shape. Each panel provides 16 individually addressable colour mixing LED cells and is controlled via DMX.
The contestants on ‘1vs100’ are individually key-lit with a Source 4 and backlit with a flown MAC 500 and a set-fixed Chroma Panel. The game-play area has over 210 RGB LED fixtures built-in to provide dramatic win or lose effects. Other LED fixtures include Pulsar Chroma Hearts, Thomas Pixellines and Pixel Par90s. Moving heads used include over 100 Martin MAC 500s, MAC 600NTs and MAC 2000 Performance, together with generic Source 4s.
The system was controlled by a GrandMA with 3 NSPs, three Avolites Art 2000 48 Way dimmers, and two Quad Xeon PixelMAD servers with eight Luminex DMX8 nodes. The system ran to a total of 67 universes of DMX, 12 from the GrandMA via the NSPs, 50 from the PixelMAD servers and five merged in from Lumina. The data from the Lumina keypad answers was used to generate DMX data, which give real-time control of the colour of the MAC 500s and the Chroma panels and intensity of the Source 4s.
The system took five days to put together, then a further four days to programme and rehearse. The recordings took place over three days, during which time a total of eight shows were filmed.
Simon Baker production manager said “This was a very large lighting project with several complex parts. Fortunately the Color Web system was very simple to install and run, and placing the GrandMA at the heart of the system gave us the flexibility to make changes right up to the last minute. All of the crew worked very hard to pull the show together and the final product looks absolutely fantastic.”
6th October 2006
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