Broadcast live on Foxtel's Country Music Channel the event celebrated the music and artists who are most-loved by their dedicated country music fans in Australia.
Mandylights were responsible for the production design, production management, stage management, lighting design and operation. Lighting gear came from Crystal Productions, Resolution X and Mandylights themselves.
The event was the first time Scenius, Clay Paky's moving head spotlight, was used in Australia as Crystal Productions had received 14 a few days prior.
"We are among the first companies in Australia to offer Scenius which gives us an advantage," commented David Thomas, managing director of Crystal Productions. "Anybody can join the party later, but being early adopters sets Crystal apart and the Scenius are the new standard in lighting technology. It has a huge 8°-50° zoom, is super quiet and very fast for a fixture of its size. The depth of field with projected images is unlike anything we have seen before."
"The Scenius is fantastic!" commented Richard Neville, managing director of Mandylights. "We used them all onstage kicking back into the audience and way into the house. The fact that the focal range is just so long on them means that on camera they look in focus when the camera is up close to the fixture, say when it's behind a presenter, but then the gobo up on the roof is sharp. It's just in perfect focus the whole length of the beam."
(Jim Evans)
