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‘I Love You Because’ Premiered in London with grandMA
When Robert McWhir, the director for ‘I Love You Because’”, wanted to put on this new musical premiere at the Landor Theatre he was aware that it would be challenging to find the right combination of lighting fixtures and control system that would allow moving lights, LEDs fixtures, conventionals and video to be seamlessly integrated. Part of the challenge was the need for a single control system that would minimise the budget on rental and operator costs. The solution was to use grandMA.
With the assistance of Entec Sound and Light a package was put together that included a grandMA full-size for programming, a grandMA light for playback, an MA NSP to distribute the DMX and act in conjunction with an in-house PC as backup system, and finally a second PC as media server running grandMA video. In line with the method favoured by theatrical productions today the rehearsals didn’t stop for lighting rehearsals. The show’s production electrician, Martin Terry, wrote the cue points into the lighting script during rehearsals and ran the show on the grandMA light console - keeping the cue list at the correct point of the show, while at the same time the grandMA full-size was used to programme the looks live – with some “catchup” in blind. McWhir was able to watch the cue list on the backup PC set on the tech table for that purpose and could make requests on looks and timings, etc.
Alan Meggs, the production manager, said: “I was amazed at the efficiency this system allowed for programming more than 300 cues in such a short time. Each cue typically had multiple timing parameters to ensure the cross-fades could draw the audience’s focus correctly. Matching the different types of fixtures such as the video, LEDs, c onventionals and moving light shutters was easily and quickly managed.”
The show, a musical retelling of the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice with the genders reversed, runs at the Landor Theatre until Saturday 20th October, 2007.
9th October 2007
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