Red Rocks Church streams with Chauvet
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On Easter Sunday, Clark created a rich and engaging visual setting for Red Rocks’ online service that was, at once, powerfully moving, yet warm and intimate enough to engage viewers through sometimes small, mobile screens. Live-streamed on Living as One and featuring a 50-member ‘virtual choir’, the harmoniously balanced service was illuminated by a rig that featured Chauvet Professional COLORado, Ovation and Rogue fixtures.
“I like to think of challenges as opportunities,” explains Clark. “Lighting a completely streamed or online service definitely changes the game. A fair amount of principles stay the same, but by and large LDs are called upon to ‘throw out the playbook’ and start from scratch. The services we’re lighting today don’t involve a full auditorium where you’re tossing lights around to wow the crowd.
“Lighting an online service requires a new degree of intentionality. Basically, you’re only as good as it looks on camera. This is not really about how many affects you can run, it’s about how well you can light your subject and set. This situation is really forcing LDs to lean back into the basics - and I love that.”
Key to helping Clark create an engaging look on camera are the 15 COLORado Panel Q40 fixtures in his rig. More than half of the RGBW rectangular wash lights were arranged on stage pipes and used to bring the large video screen into the overall presentation on stage.
“We added the Q40s to make the video wall really pop,” adds Clark. “This fixture has a great flood light kind of feel with a lot of glow, so it looks great on camera. The Q40 also takes up a lot of dark real estate behind a pastor or worship leader, which enhances the intimacy on camera, which was one of our main objectives for the Easter service.”
For Key lighting, Clark and his team relied on eight Ovation E- 910FC colour rendering ellipsoidals with 50° lens tubes, which allowed them to achieve an even stage wash with no hot spots
Rogue RH1 Hybrids positioned on overhead truss, provided fill-lighting and accented moments during the Easter service with special effects. Adding to the overall impact of the service were the synced choir videos on the centre stage wall.
(Jim Evans)
