It’s another fine day in the world of Chauvet Professional; this week we’re going to be reporting from Dallas, Texas at the site of the WFX 2013 Leadership Conference at the Dallas Convention Center. Chauvet Professional’s Jim Hutchison will be on hand teaching classes in the Hands-On-Training laboratory at the show, along with a great team of Chauvet Pro fixture specialists to answer any and all questions you might have about Chauvet Professional equipment.
At the show, we’ll be displaying a unique design in the C139 area of C-Floor at DCC, showcasing some awesome new fixtures and video equipment! Some of the gear we’ll have in place at the show:
The Ovation E-190WW, Chauvet Professional’s warm white LED ellipsoidal fixture, which features amazing class leading output and cost savings that make sense to your budget.
The Ovation F-165WW, the best replacement for the incandescent fresnels and energy-eating wash lights existing in your rig. F-165WW has something that most older conventionals don’t have, DMX-controlled zoom for making your stage wash just that much easier.
One of the best things to hit the Worship market’s technology for display, the PVP S5 video panel! PVP S5 gives you the ability to have massive walls of great definition video in your worship hall or congregational spaces, giving you the ability to broadcast the message with great graphics and rich, beautiful text.
Sign up for the Blending LEDs with Traditional Fixtures seminar in the HOT Lab at WFX 2013, and come say hello in our demo room, C139!
CHAUVET Professional entertained with a great selection of luminaires at the sixth edition of Salon Algam in Nantes, Sept. 8-10. Our French distributor used an array of fixtures in the theater, including 18 Nexus 4×4, 16 Q-Wash 419Z, 12 Legend 230SR Beam, five Ovation E-190WW and four Q-Wash 560Z-LED.
What an amazing design by the distributor! Such stylistic color, aerial shape, and integrity!
Check out these gorgeous shots — Stephane Gressier is one great photog, am I right?!
Oscar Dominguez has been using Chauvet Professional fixtures to create his stunning designs for The Voice since Season 1 of the show’s history, starting with the COLORdash Batten Tri and the COLORado 1 Tri Tour. Oscar and his team from Darkfire Lighting Design used COLORado and COLORdashto bring pure eclectic color and intensity to the performances given on The Voice while giving the audience a stellar experience both live in studio and at home in broadcast.
Oscar’s work in Season 2 of The Voice brought over 500 Chauvet Professional fixtures into the lighting rig: over 350 COLORdash Batten Tri units, 60COLORado 1 Quad Tour fixtures, 48COLORado 1 Tri Tour units, and 44 pixel mapping Epix Bar fixtures helped Oscar and his team to create the vibrant designs that audiences across the world have come to expect from The Voice.
Season 3 of The Voice was another milestone for Chauvet Professional and The Voice, as Oscar’s lighting rig incorporated the first 86Nexus 4X4 pixel display units. Oscar and his Darkfire Lighting Design team designed some of the most spectacular broadcast lighting in recent history, gaining him the Creative Arts Emmy that his work, his team, and The Voice deserve. Bravo from Chauvet Professional to you and your team, Oscar!
Oscar Dominguez, the founder and head designer of DARKFIRE INC, is the man behind the exciting visuals of NBC’s THE VOICE, THE BACHELOR and SHARK TANK. With over 20 years of experience lighting live and episodic television, he is one of an elite group capable of producing the large scale lighting spectacle that top-rated TV shows demand. Oscar was recently nominated for an Emmy for his work on THE VOICE LIVES Season 2 and with his team has created an impressive body of work.
DARKFIRE works closely with producers, art directors and videographers to create a lighting plot, budget and equipment recommendations. New technology appears on the marketplace every week and DARKFIRE’s technicians check out its viability and compatibility with modern cameras. The expectations of the TV viewing public have never been higher and the range of traditional and LED based fixtures has never been wider. A generation raised on excellence in concert lighting wants the same look and texture in their favorite weekly TV show. Fortunately modern camera technology has allowed designers like Oscar to re-create the looks that were previously only possible in live concerts.
Lighting for television is a collaborative process; with the convergence of set, lighting and special effects, the business of design is becoming more specialized. DARKFIRE continues to take a leading role and with every show renews its mission to bring visual excitement to millions of television viewers.
Excellent lighting design work coming from Wales by London/Cardiff/Los Angeles-based lighting designer Steffan Jones!
Chauvet Professional’sLegend 230SR Beam fixtures andMVP 12 modular video panels were part of the lighting inventory for a series of programmes on Welsh language channel S4C Light Entertainment. The series was recorded in a 10 day block at Studio 1 of the NEP Cymru (ITV Wales) facility at Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff, Wales. The CHAUVET Professional fixtures were specified by Cardiff and London based Lighting Designer Steffan Jones, and supplied by UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL. Steffan designed lighting and video for the raft of programmes, many featuring live artists.
Have you seen theCOLORado 4 IPvideo from Chauvet Professional?
We ran the COLORado 4 IP through its paces for your approval — we made it act like a multi-pixel mapping audience blinder, let it play the role of an architectural wall washer (with IP 66 status!) and had it do its thing as a linear wash. Never once did the COLORado 4 IP disappoint!
The 4 IP is another awesome addition from the COLORado line! It’s dependable, intensely bright, and built like a tank – it’s what you expect from Chauvet Professional! The COLORado 4 IP features an IP66 rating along with an incredibly bright series of four 40-watt RGBW LEDs — incorporating white into the palette gave us the ability to provide you a broad choice of color mixing and creative expression. COLORado 4 IP also has 15-degree lenses that give an amazing punch to the output of the fixture, making it excellent for any wash application!
COLORado 4 IP also features individual pixel programming, enhancing the visual impact of this very versatile and resilient fixture. A removable yoke doubles as a mounting bracket for stacking an array of up to four units that maintain a perfect pixel pitch. it’s road worthy AND versatile!
Check out the COLORado 4 IP product feature video:
We here at Chauvet Professional love to know what is going on in the industry, especially when it comes to how you’re designing with Chauvet professional fixtures and equipment! Every day in this business there are hundreds upon thousands of events and performances happening in every corner of the world, and that amount is staggering.
We ask the question: What is YOUR Chauvet Professional lighting?
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Here at Chauvet Professional, we love to help the next generations of budding lighting designers, technicians, and touring professionals learn their respective crafts! Students at Wakefield’s Backstage Academy in Yorkshire, UK, benefited from a donation of four CHAUVET Professional Q-Wash 560Z-LEDfixtures, which offered them the opportunity to really get some hands-on moving head experience. The moving washes integrated by the students at the Backstage Academy into one of the school’s main lighting rigs.
Product specialist for Chauvet UK, Sam Bowden said: “Chauvet is a great believer in the talent of the future, and frequently hires staff who have just completed technical courses. We feel it is essential to support and aid the fresh blood coming into the industry not just to continue to push live events forward in terms of the product available but also to see the unique and varying ways that people use it.”
In case you haven’t heard, one of our industry’s top rental, sales, and design houses, 4Wall Lighting, has come out with an excellent iPhone app to help you with putting together your next production package!
You can also use their app to see what’s current out there, what’s best for your next show, what you haven’t seen in the world of light, and what’s new in the world of entertainment lighting news! Check it out!
if you’re traveling today or finishing up at the PLASA Focus show in Austin this week, we hope you had an excellent time! We had a great time meeting you all, talking lumens, and showing off the Chauvet Professional line of fixtures!
Let us know if you had a chance to see DeAnna Padget’s lecture on Mixing Conventional Fixtures and LEDs — we’ll send her the message!
Architectural lighting goodness happening in Atlantic City featuring excellent design and powerful illumination from Iluminarc!
Sixty-three ILUMINARC Ilumipod Logic 6 are the LED light source for a permanent interactive installation combining light and sound at Revel Resort in Atlantic City. Architect and composer Christopher Janney, who serves as artistic director for PhenomenArts, Inc., created “Sonic Fireflies,” a piece inspired by the sounds of the sea and the flashes of fireflies that engages guests as they enter the resort.
