Elite Multimedia provides worship experience
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Held inside the Shocco Springs Conference Centre, production designer Jake Brantley wanted to give the 2018 event an in-the-round worship experience, so he worked with Elite Multimedia Productions who provided a full rig of audio, lighting and LED video.
“This year we wanted to do something a little different, so we started talking about what was possible in a gymnasium with very limited rigging points,” says Brantley. “We started playing around with the idea of doing it in the round, but one of the challenges was that the highest point in the ceiling is only at 26ft, so we decided to push our LED video surfaces to the outside of the room, facing in. In this set-up, no matter where you were in the house, when you were looking at the stage, your LED visual surface was in the background. It was a unique challenge, but it turned out really well
“Elite Multimedia Productions knows that when I am coming up with a design, it’s going to be ambitious and a little different,” adds Brantley. “They do a great job of helping us find the right gear that fits both our dream design and our budget. When working to fill out a gear list, you have to be willing to give-and-take a little bit, and Peter Streiff at Elite Multimedia did a great job helping us turn our vision into a successful event.
“We have been doing events in this space for about 10 years, and with how challenging the space is and the fact that we needed to hang a substructure of truss to be able to fly our rig, we scheduled ourselves an extra day of load-in,” explains Brantley. “We were working with a crew of two lighting directors, two audio engineers, three LED video technicians, and then a few stage riggers and volunteers as well. We started almost 36 hours before the event happened so that we could take our time and get it right.”
As it was time to put the finishing touches on the design, Brantley and the design team looked to make a dynamic but cohesive worship environment. With an emphasis on selecting a gear list that would allow them to blend all the elements together, they decided on an almost all LED-based package.
(Jim Evans)
