Lighting Co
East Coast Lighting & Production Services (ECLPS)
Venue
City Hall Plaza
Boston, MA
Crew
Festival Producer: Crashline Productions
Lighting Designer: Preston Hoffman/Pulse Lighting
Programmer/ALD: Hans Shoop
Production Manager: Ted Goodspeed
Lighting techs: Ted Goodspeed, Chris Griffin, Alicia Colantonio, Ed Boulet, Kyle Melo
Local Crew: Bill Kenney Productions
Power Distro: Capron
Generators: CAT
Gear
1 grandMA2 full console
1 grandMA1 full console
1 grandMA1 Light console
10 Martin MAC Viper Profiles
18 Robe Robin 1200 LEDWashes
12 Robe Robin 600 LEDWashes
4 Robe Robin 800 LEDWashes
20 Chauvet COLORdash Par-Quad 7s
12 Color Kinetics ColorBlaze 48s
12 Elation Colour Chorus 48s
2 Elation Opti Quad LED Pars
36 Martin Stagebar54s
1 Fleenor Rerun Portable
5 Fleenor Opto – Iso
23 20.5×20.5 truss sections (13×10’, 6×8’, 4×5’)
9 20.5” corner blocks
Event Details
This is the third BCMF that ECLPS has done with LD Preston Hoffman. The basic overall concept has remained the same while the gear; placement and programming change slightly each time to keep it from feeling too static. The Martin Vipers worked really well on the city hall facade last spring so Preston kept them and focused on overhauling the VIP and beer garden areas using only LED fixtures this time.
One of biggest challenges this time was the layout and design was only finalized less than two weeks before the festival. The other challenge was that the construction of the new government center “T” transit stop had expanded about 15 feet into where the festival usually occupied. This demolished the main truck access to the site so, logistically, the lighting crew had to really coordinate much more with everyone else to ensure that they could get their trucks to the right places at the right times for load-in and load-out, without ending up impeding someone else and vice versa.
