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Clay Paky Scenius illuminates Canadian telethon

Clay Paky Scenius illuminates Canadian telethon

‘Telemiracle’, an annual telethon in Saskatchewan, Canada that benefits the Kinsmen Foundation, celebrated its 40th anniversary with a 21-hour, commercial-free live broadcast on the province’s CTV affiliates. This year lighting designer Linus MacDonald used Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights for the show’s look. New Sony cameras were also utilized.

 

“Every ten minutes there was a live performance, so we needed a lot of different looks,” says lighting director Slobodan Marin who has teamed with MacDonald on three previous telethons. “We rehearsed the first hour of the show then everything else was on the fly. It was non-stop from one performance to another.”

 

MacDonald and Marin centered the six Scenius spots over the mid-stage area on the fly rail where they were rigged to move to different heights and angles. “For some rock’n’roll bands we flew the lights half-way so they’d be down and in-your-face for another kind of look,” MacDonald explains.

 

The telethon opened with the set dimmed down and only Scenius illuminated. A 40th anniversary video was shown and when it finished Scenius lit a jib shot of a piano and vocalist.  As the lights came back up the phone bank in the background was visible behind a scrim.

 

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