Lighting designer Toni Amoros worked alongside choreographer Hansel Cereza to specify 24 of the award-winning Clay Paky luminaire from leading Chilean event production house Producciones Icardi. The company purchased its Mythos stock from distributor Iluminacion Profesional Valook S.A., with one of Valook's senior technical specialists Francisco Yañez covering the ceremony.
"Toni chose the Mythos on account of it being a fantastically multi-purpose fixture," explains Yanez. "He used them to wash the entire field of the National Stadium with vibrant colour and texture, for striking beam effects in the night sky and as a precision follow spot."
According to Yanez, Producciones Icardi previously used searchlights for events such as this, but switched to the Mythos because of its remarkable output yet low power consumption.
"If you compare a Mythos with a 4000-watt searchlight, you'll see the beams are identical," says Yanez. "However, the Mythos only consumes 10% of what the searchlight uses in terms of power, so you can use the same energy to turn on 10 Mythos against only one searchlight."
The ceremony began with a dance in honour of the people of 'Easter Island', a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean, with LED balls flying through the stadium representing each of the 12 countries involved. Popular Chilean band 'Noche de Brujas' then took to the stage before the ceremony's explosive finale.
"The Mythos was the ideal tool for this highly significant event thanks to its versatility and fantastic output," says Yanez.
(Jim Evans)
