Headlights at Midnight

This is the light show that I designed for the fall 2009 concert of the Bucknell Dance Company. The light show was included in the program just like any other dance, but the only dancers were my lights, and it was about a quarter or a fifth of the length of any given dance. The show is to a soundtrack piece by Keith Emerson (of ELP fame). This show was programmed for the audience in the theatre, not for a camera, so some of the lights read a lot better live than on video. For instance, there are some awesome gobo washes of the black and legs on stage from the downstage VL3000s that just don't show up on the video. So if you think that you should see something and you don't, this is probably the case. This show was programmed in probably only about 4 or 5 hours tops, and I was only really half awake for most of that because it was done at night after the show tech had completed.

The show was programmed on an ETC ION console, and timed via the follow times in the console. Eight cues throughout the piece were triggered via Q-Lab with MSC commands in order to ensure that no matter what, those cues were dead on every night no matter what screwy timings or operator error occurred. Programming on the ION with moving lights is great, and I used a number individual parameter timings throughout the piece. The best part about the ION is the auto-mark - my dance company shows are always more theatrical, and often require lights to be preset when they come up, and the auto-mark feature probably saved me an hour or two in programming time of just going back and marking various lights in various cues.

The rig is that of the fall dance concert, consisting of somewhere around 380 lights, but I only used a small portion of that. Here's some of what is most noticable:
4x Vari*Lite VL3000 (rented for the show)
4x High End Intellabeam 700HX
5x Apollo Right Arm with NSP Source 4 Par and Smart Color Scroller
3x Elation DLED Tri-Brick
6x Source 4 50* with GAM TwinSpin rotators and a Spinning Checkerboard gobo
Lots of other conventionals

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• ETC ION
• ETC EOS
• Intellabeam
• 700hx
• light show
• keith emerson
• ELP
• bucknell
• BDC
• vari*lite
• VL3000

[antsettler]

very diferent, absolut control of scene audiorythm

[rookiekardz]

Great like all your videos, Live and let die is still the best one though. But I love em all.

[trav1971]

cool