Elation LED in Survivor Game Changers finale
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“We wanted to move to more LED and try something different without taking away the success of past live shows,” said Fable, who has traditionally used a profusion of discharge lamp fixtures on Survivor finales. “We wanted to see how much could be rolled over to LED and see how much more bang we could get with the extra fixtures it allowed us to use.”
“It’s the most LED we’ve had on a Survivor show,” Fable added. “The show looked as good as ever and the client was very happy.”
The rig consisted of over 250 lighting fixtures, including 80 Fuze Wash Z120, 26 Fuze Wash Z350, 40 Colour Chorus 12, 10 Colour Chorus 48 and 16 Satura Spot LED Pro, all Elation LED fixtures, along with Elation Platinum SBX and FLX hybrid luminaires and other lights.
Fable worked with Fuze series fixtures before but says the Survivor: Game Changers finale was a good opportunity to replace the VL5s he normally uses. His search for a new colour-changing wash light with unique on-camera aesthetics yet one that was LED-based ended when he found the Fuze Wash Z120 and Fuze Wash Z350.
“I had given up on finding a light that had the same characteristics as a VL5, which has been a cornerstone of countless shows,” he says. “That changed when I was introduced to the Fuze. The first thing that attracted me to it was how it softly diffuses light. It fills all the roles for me that the VL5 would play even though it’s an LED fixture whereas the VL5 is an incandescent.”
The Elation lighting fixtures for the finale were supplied by Victor Fable Lighting and Kinetic Lighting.
The season finale of Survivor: Game Changers, the 34th season of the Emmy award-winning show, aired live on 24 May from Stage 23 of CBS’s Radford Studios in Los Angeles.
(Jim Evans)
