Sunday, March 4, 2012

Central Florida Community Arts Christmas Show 2011

This past Christmas season (which was crazy busy!), we hosted the Central Florida Community Arts Orchestra and Chior.  They put together an amazing show that went through the different ways Christmas is celebrated around the world and the meaning of Christmas.  There was a 100+ person chior, 60 person Orchestra, 12 dancers, and 6 actors.


The scale of this show was massive.  We had 22 songs to program (3 of which were medleys.)  Total there was about 350 cues for this 1.5 hour show.  We hung 2 60' White Cyc's along the back of the stage in the Sanctuary.  It made for an amazing canvas to paint with light and it was very simple and quick to hang.  Along the bottom of the Cyc we lined up 12 CB12s, 6 Mac 2000 profiles, and 6 Mac 250 Washes.  We also added some Mac 2000 Washes (4) on 1st Electric to side light the chior and cyc.  It worked out amazing.


I experimented with a few looks and came up with some new ideas of programming, that I have really found quite beautiful.

The first is gradients.  I made the below look with ambers, red, magenta, and uv.


Since then I have tried it with greens, blues; pastels, and even opposing colors like NC and Red.  It works out amazing.  It has become a standard in my programming bag of tricks.

I also recreated a look I used a lot in rock and roll  It made for a nice energetic look for one of the Jackson 5 songs (I told you it was eclectic).




This was an amazingly fun show.  It had lots of diverse music and some theatrical acting.  Below are a few more pictures.  Enjoy!