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EVENTS EVOLUTION SELECTS CHAUVET PROFESSIONAL FIXTURES FOR BENJAMIN DUBE LIVESTREAM CHAUVET PROFESSIONAL MAVERICK MK2 SPOTS, ROGUE R2 SPOTS AND ROGUE R2 WASHES CREATE ORIGINAL LOOKS DURING AN EPIC EIGHT-HOUR SHOW. Coming up with new looks for a 90-minute concert is tough enough but keeping a show fresh for eight hours straight is a different ballgame altogether. However, this is exactly the challenge that faced Blessing Bero, Tatenda Gaylord Rushwaya, and the rest of the Events Evolution when they worked a mammoth eighthour pay-per-view livestream show by platinum Epic Records star, Benjamin Dube. The Events Evolution team deployed a flexible lighting rig including 11 CHAUVET Professional Maverick MK2 Spots, four Rogue R2 Spots, four Rogue R2 Washes, plus a Net-X node. “We created a wide range of backgrounds with our videos and the rainbow of colours we were able to get from our lighting fixtures matched them all,” said Rushwaya, who
programmed the show and ran the video content, while Bero handled the lighting design. “Colour was key to keeping things visually fresh and interesting throughout the entire show. The design we went with called for a great many bold colour mixes.” Relying on the wide beam angles of their fixtures, which were hung on three rows of overhead truss, as well as on stage left and stage right structures, the Events Evolution team frequently changed the coverage area of their colourful displays. They also didn’t hesitate to overlap shafts of light in different bold colour combinations, going with red, green and yellow one moment, they moving to purples and blues for another song. Another way that the designers kept things
interesting was by working split white beams and rotating gobos from their Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures with compelling video images and ample amounts of haze. Setting these beams and gobo patterns against the rich purples from their washes, the team created sleek elegant looks on stage. This contrasted with some of the intensely powerful impressions that resulted from the bold colour combinations; but in the end both worked toward the same goal. “We wanted to create scenes that were very different, but all supported the same message,” Rushwaya concluded. Photos: Events Evolution www.eventsevo.co.za www.chauvetprofessional.com
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