"We've done the Nutramax Christmas party before and it's always a lot of fun," said Tyler Lussier of Image Production Services, who designed the lightshow. "From an entertainment standpoint, this event -- which was produced by Michael Yorkell (also of Image Production Services) -- is much more elaborate than your average corporate party.
"Last year, the party featured Cirque Dreams Holidaze on stage. This year, there was a group of excellent tribute artists celebrating Elvis, Adele, Blues Brothers, Four Tops and Garth Brooks. So, we approached this as if we were lighting a concert or show as well as a party."
With this in mind, Lussier relied on a large number of Rogue, Q-Wash and NEXT NXT-1 moving fixtures to create dynamic concert looks on the stage. "Movement was important to conveying the right mood and drawing people into the performances," he said. "We wanted to have light moving across the stage, in the air and out over the audience."
Lussier used eight Rogue RH1 Hybrids, and equal number of Q-Wash 419Z-LED and 16 NEXT NXT-1 moving fixtures in the Nutramax rig.
Moving the NEXT NXT-1 panels in sync with each other at multiple eye levels allowed Lussier to add a level of depth to the stage that made it seem larger, thereby engendering the concert feeling in the room. Contributing further to this depth were the eight COLORado 1-Quad Tour fixtures that were arranged along stage deck left and stage deck right to provide side washing.
Mounted on truss 8'-12' off the deck and running across centre stage was a 9'x 16' video wall made of PVP X3 LED panels that displayed customer images fed to it by a VIP Drive 43s all-in-one video wall mapper/scaler/switcher.
(Jim Evans)
