LONDON — HSL supplied over 80 moving lights and nearly 150 digital lighting fixtures for Lighting Designer Tom Kinane at the Premier League All Stars tournament. This was staged at the state-of-the-art David Beckham Academy in Greenwich, London, broadcast on Sky One and attended by live audiences. Kinane has worked with HSL on other shows including the first series of “Dancing on Ice," and he once again wanted them on the case providing the show’s specialist lighting requirements. The project was handled for HSL by Sean McGlone.
The competition was part of the Premier League’s ‘Creating Chances’ initiative. It united football legends, celebrities and fans in a 7-a-side knockout contest that saw Middleborough triumph 3-1 over West Ham in the final, in the process winning a £100,000 donation for their favorite charity.
The moving lights were all Robe — consisting of 30 ColorSpot 1200E ATs, 32 ColorWash 1200E ATs and 20 ColorSpot 575E ATs, all of which were hung on trussing rigged above the 60m x 40m pitch.
They were used for numerous effects — the washes covered the entire pitch in different colors, while the Spots were used for gobo projections and other eye-candy style effects for the team entrances and exits.
HSL owns the largest hire stock of Robe units in Europe, with a fleet of well over 1,100 fixtures. The 144 JTE PixelLine 1044s were all rigged above the audience seating stands in the horizontal position off a series of vertical scaff bars, with seven fixtures per section of scaff tube. These were used for flashing, strobing and high energy chase effects when teams came on and off the pitch and for dramatic wide sweeping looks in and out of the audience shots.
HSL also supplied the new I-Pix BB Wash Lights, once again purchased in quantity, and were employed to flood the whole pitch, many individual PAR cans, large quantities of six way par bars, ETC Source Four Zooms and Robert Juliat Ivanhoe follow spots, plus six 48-way Avolites ART dimmers. Ross Williams operated the moving and digital lights by using a WholeHog III.
The BB’s are new additions to HSL’s hire stock. The company has invested heavily in LED and digital lighting technology over the last two years, and the BB’s are ultra powerful, bright, LED wash lights/blinder units that are perfect for the diverse range of shows for which HSL caters.
Each BB Washlight features four dismountable 2 foot battens fitted with four RGB cells, each using a custom RGB LED and a special optical arrangement to deliver a blended source of exceptionally high power. The units each produce 17,600 lumens. However, in practice with additive color mixing (the basis of all LED devices), they consume and deliver only the chosen color gamut with no wastage involved in the filtering process.
Each batten can be run as an individual unit with 16 bit control and color strobing.
Film & TV Services supplied all studio lighting and generators, with UK Rigging supplying the trussing.Wiring up all the fixtures supplied by HSL consumed an incredible 8Km of 2.5mm Socapex cable alone, plus thousands of meters of mains and data cable.
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