For Easter 2014 we looked back to a set we did a few years back at Northland. Easter 2012? Our concept was to have a huge powerful opener that was a driven narrative from video on 3 large 10' wide, 20' tall screens.
We used DL-3s to project onto fabric that we dropped with Kabuki Solenoids at the end of the opening video segment. We used Solenoids from Chabuki, which worked phenomenally. They are cool devices that open to allow fabric to drop. The fabric we used was White Poly Silk. We bought a roll from Rose brand and cut it to our height. One challenge we had was that our services typically have a 15 minute turnover which made rigging the fabric between services a bit of a rush.
We used a single man genie lift with 5 people rushing it from drape to drape in order to hang each drape between services. Each of the drapes hung from 5 kabuki selenoids that were lamped to 10' pipes which we hung in our ceiling.
For projection we used 4 DL-3s that were hung about 60' from our farbic pieces. We hung them so that we could also use them to project on our side walls which are about 20' tall x 70' long.
We ran into some issues with the DL-3s we rented. We ended up having to open up 4 of the media servers during setup to reset and re-seat the connections. As you can see, Dorian wanted to help with the DL-3s too.
Once our kabukis had dropped, we used the DL-3s to project onto the walls in our room.
We also had some custom steel structures welded that housed our 4 bar blinders. We also had holes drilled that allowed us to hang 101s on them to. The best part of these scenic/ lighting pieces is that they were on motors. During the service we changed their bottom trim to get a great array of looks. It was awesome. One song we created a roof like canopy of lights and the next was almost a flat wall!
We also had some custom steel structures welded that housed our 4 bar blinders. We also had holes drilled that allowed us to hang 101s on them to. The best part of these scenic/ lighting pieces is that they were on motors. During the service we changed their bottom trim to get a great array of looks. It was awesome. One song we created a roof like canopy of lights and the next was almost a flat wall!
All of the blinders used mirror lamps and were wired individually. Each lamp was wired to a 16 channel Christmas light dimmer. This was awesome as we could do wipes and really cool dimmer fades and chases across the whole rig.
Here is an image of the dimmers we used. They were very finnicky so we made sure to run them into a opto splitter to make sure to isolate them from everything else. We also ensured all dimmers were on the same leg of power to minimize weird things like flickers and ghosting of the lamps. We did also try to use a laptop to make changes remotely to make changes to the dimmers and ended up frying the network card. So don't plug your computer into these :)
Here is an image of the dimmers we used. They were very finnicky so we made sure to run them into a opto splitter to make sure to isolate them from everything else. We also ensured all dimmers were on the same leg of power to minimize weird things like flickers and ghosting of the lamps. We did also try to use a laptop to make changes remotely to make changes to the dimmers and ended up frying the network card. So don't plug your computer into these :)
We also made some really cool towers out of our colorblast TRXs, that we used as back lights. The vertical rectangles of light made for a nice touch on the livestream to keep everyone from sinking in the dock.
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