Element is located on a main floor overlooked by a lounge grill. Above the dance floor and mounted directly to the ceiling for a clean look are eight MAC 250 Krypton profile moving heads along with four Wizard Extreme effect lights and four Atomic 3000 strobes. Atmospheric effects and mid-air projection canopy comes from a Jem ZR33 Hi-Mass fogger located under the dance floor. Lighting control is from a PC-based LightJockey and Martin Fingers controller. All Skaha Sound-supplied Martin lighting was distributed through Martin's Canadian representative, Martin Canada.
Additional lighting includes 12 1000W par cans above the stage on a custom hydraulic scissor. Eight 2' Pulsar ChromaPanels colour a feature wall and 300ft of Advanced Lighting eLum RGB strips light two bars, a main bar and an upstairs bar, as well as to backlight the club's sign on the outside of the building. Also outside are 16 Pulsar ChromaFloors illuminating the sidewalk.
"My lighting plan was always up in the air as we originally had a partner who was a lighting professional but he bailed before plans were even started, so we had to go it on our own," commented LD Florio Vassilakakis.
"When it came to lighting the place up, I had many ideas from the places I had travelled. I always make a point of visiting nightclubs anywhere I go from Vegas to the UK, Vancouver, Athens and other European cities. Making these ideas reality was really much easier than I thought. Research on the Internet and help from our local sound and lighting company helped point me in the right direction. About six months before construction started I was lucky enough to meet Martin Pro rep Clayton Hubick from Edmonton. He showed me some samples of club lighting from Martin special effects to Pulsar LED.
"I contacted another company from Minnesota, Advanced Lighting Systems, and designed ambient lighting and signage with DMXable LED. The sign, bars and other signage is all LED and controlled by LightJockey. It was nice to have computer software be so complex that it can control almost anything at any time.
"With Clayton's help we designed a light show that was really spectacular and that fit within our budget. To be quite honest, I never thought that a light show of this caliber would have ever been within our budget. We took it upon ourselves to install it all and with crossed fingers we hoped it all worked. It did and the rest is history. Clayton really went above and beyond and came to our club and trained us on the software and even programmed some light shows. Really, without his help this thing wouldn't have happened as well as it did. Martin has the best lighting in the industry with great support."
(Lee Baldock)
