Chauvet moves Zaoga Forward In Faith church
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Bero, who served as technical director, set designer and lighting designer at the video shoot, hung 16 0.5m by 3m LED strips across the back of the stage. “I worked with LED screen engineer and operator Tatenda Rushwaya to create all the attractive visuals that the camera could capture on the strips,” he said. “We used them to play graphic videos that interacted with video playback.”
Having the strips display their captivating content while being accompanied by weak, timid light, would have been akin to having a choir comprised only of tenors. The net result would be uneven and uninspiring. To avoid this, Bero balanced the video displays with the bold, colourful output from 22 Chauvet Professional fixtures. “Given the output of the video strips, we had to beef up our colours with bright, high-output lights,” said Bero. “The lighting and video worked beautifully together.”
Bero placed three of his Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures on the upstage truss, using them to cover the band in vivid colors and texturizing gobo patterns. The four MK2 Spot units flown over the mid-stage deck also added colour while accenting the backup vocalists. The two remaining Mavericks were rigged on downstage truss and used to highlight the lead singers.
Working in sync with the Maverick units and the LED video strips, six Rogue R2 Spots provided stage left and stage right fill-in colours. For dramatic aerial effects, Bero relied on eight Rogue R1 Beam fixtures placed on the mid and upstage deck.
