The company's subsidiary, Charterhouse Production, also masterminded the technical infrastructure at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) for an event that seeks to foster the development of the Ghanaian music industry and reward the artistes, producers, recording labels and other industry professionals. They handled all aspects of the event, provision of lights, stage and set design, full production and event management.
According to Charterhouse Production event executive Eli Tettey the technology was scaled up for this year's Awards. "We used a lot of new equipment from PR Lighting, incorporating LED screens into the set design - and a lot more people attended."
In fact while around 3,000 people assembled to see some of the country's leading artists, over 20m watched the Awards on television (supported locally by GhOne TV).
They had the chance to see a cornucopia of PR Lighting fixtures which were used for beam effects, general ambience, audience lighting - and to enhance the stage and set for camera coverage. These were carefully designed into the scenography by the Charterhouse in-house team of Terry Molise and Steven Agbenegah who came up with a bespoke look for each of the 20 or so African chartbusters appearing - based on their act, style of performance and mode of entering the stage.
To achieve all this Charterhouse Productions used an assortment of 32 PR Lighting fixtures. They deployed a combination of 12 x XR Beam 200 and XR Beam 300, eight XLED 1037 LED moving head washers and four XS 1200 Spots. The Beam 200 and Beam 300s provided dynamic overheard effects, while additional XS 1200 and Beam 200s were all used to create decorative effects - programmed into an Avolites console.
Eli Tettey said the high standard of production had proved popular with the artistes. "The equipment from PR Lighting was once again very dynamic and durable," he confirmed. "The Gobo patterns on the XS 1200 Spot were particularly impressive and the colour saturation on the Beams was excellent. Also we were able to take advantage of a good zoom range."
As to the event itself, Davido and Shatta Wale picked up Artiste of the Year awards. Some of the key performers included Castro, Guru, Isa K. Dei, MzVee, Sonnie Badu, Kwabena Kwabena, Sarkodie, Iyanya, Okomfor Kwadee, Dasebre Dwamena and Samini.
(Jim Evans)
