Production supplier and lighting designer Dale Sahlin of Fusion Design LIVE, Las Vegas specified eight DL.3 digital light fixtures and two Road Hog Full Boar consoles for the event's show producer Audio Visual Management Group (AVMG) of Dallas. Intelligent Lighting Creations of Arlington Heights, Ill., supplied the equipment.
Sahlin says: "We were fortunate to use DL.2s with AVMG over the last year on numerous shows and when we talked about this show, they were excited to be the first to use the DL.3s on show site."
DL.3 is a digital lighting fixture equipped with a 6500 lumen three-chip LCD projector and an onboard media server. New features include an SDI input/out for professional AV applications; optional lens accessories for longer throw; and a high 2000:1 contrast ratio resulting in a dark 'video black.'
Four DL.3s on the downstage truss lit the ceiling, walls and on-stage 20ft round columns. The other four DL.3s were set up backstage on scaffolding towers to project onto two 17x40 widescreens.
"The ceiling over the crowd provided a great virtual canvas to shoot the DL.3s on as well as large white boxes over the doorways to shoot onto," Sahlin explains. "The client was so impressed with the brightness of the widescreens that we mainly used the DL.3s as projection on those screens."
This was Sahlin's first time to use the new Road Hog Full Boar console, although he's an experienced programmer on other Wholehog products. "I only programme on Hogs and will continue to do so," he says.
Jim Holt, AVMG president and show producer, says that the DL.3 allowed them to be flexible in their show design and production. "The flexibility of DL.3 allowed us to change the look of each session with a touch of a button," he explains. "The richness of color generated by the DL.3s almost overshadowed the video projectors on the show."
(Jim Evans)
