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Musical Memorial for a Princess: “Concert for Diana” Realised with grandMA
It was a huge commemoration. More than 60,000 people celebrated at Wembley Stadium the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Around 15 million people watched the Concert for Diana in the UK – over 500 million in 140 countries worldwide. Artists like Elton John, Duran Duran, James Morrison, Nelly Furtado, Rod Stewart, Status Quo and Tom Jones, to name a few, paid their respect to the “Queen of Hearts”. For lighting of the event LD Steve Nolan used two grandMA full-size and four MA NSPs. During the show the two full-size run in full-tracking backup mode.
“We used ESP vision linked by MA-Net to visualise our programming during the day,” explained Ben Cracknell, associate lighting designer and programmer. “We loaded in on Monday, began programming on Thursday evening and did the show on Sunday. I was very impressed by the grandMA and how it performed on this show. The powerful effects package handled the LEDs very well creating some fantastic looks. I was also very pleased with the cloning tools when lights were added later on once programming was well underway.” Cracknell continued: “We were able to link both consoles together in multiuser-mode, which meant whilst I was operating the show we could use the second board to inhibit or lift intensities. This was necessary to fit the camera requirements to ensure great pictures throughout the daylight hours, past sunset and into nighttime.
Amongst others 102 x VL3000 spots, 90 x VL6c, 80 x VL2416, 36 x VL5, 68 x Atomic Strobes & Scrollers and 70 x Pixelline 1044 were used. Lighting crew chief was Richard Gorrod. The lighting equipment was supplied by PRG Europe – Mick Healey and Kelly Cornfield were project managers.
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20th August 2007
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