Painting with Light on Team UP tour
- Details
Directed by Tijl Dauwe, the production starred musical actress Goele De Raedt and Ketnet-wrapper Sander Gillis in the lead roles, accompanied by a cast of 12 - 15 year-old new actors and singers who auditioned via TV series Ketnet Musical, a reality style competition devised to source potential new singing, dancing and acting talent.
Painting with Light’s Paco Mispelters worked hard to deliver a tourable lighting design to meet everyone’s dramatic expectations and fit into an expedient budget. He took Studio 100’s impressive double-decker set design as a starting point.
This featured a complete first level balcony and a gymnasium style climbing frame structure upstage as well as a 10m diameter stage revolve further downstage, which was used to play out specific scenes and to move props and additional set assets on and off stage.
A series of trusses were installed at each venue and used in conjunction with house fly bars. As the set was immediately beneath some of the fly bars, meaning that they could not come in low, ladder trusses were hung beneath selected bars allowing strategic positioning of fixtures that could light the side wings of the set.
Paco chose 15 x Vari*Lite VL3500 Washes as his general back and stage washes, and they were picked for their Fresnel lens which “produces a nice softness to the light, and is generally great for theatre shows,” says Paco.
For hard edged sources, he used 24 x Claypaky Alpha Spot 1500 profiles. He needed a powerful fixture with shutters which were essential to creating some of the smaller and more intimate scenes that entailed closing down the space.
For physically lower level lighting, Paco used 32 x URC LED PAR zooms and there were 12 x Robert Juliat 2K Profiles for main key lighting.
Lighting was operated on the road by Arjan Grootenhuis using a grandMA2 light console, complete with an NPU in the system to assist with the channel management.
(Jim Evans)
