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MLB All-Star Bash with Elation Platinum series movers and effects

MLB All-Star Bash with Elation Platinum series movers and effects

Prior to Major League Baseball’s 2016 All-Star Game on July 12th at Petco Park in San Diego, an All-Star Game FanFest took place the week leading up to the annual midsummer classic. One of the FanFest’s most popular events was the MLB All-Star Bash where top acts Akon, Fall Out Boy and DJ Vice performed beneath a lighting rig that included Platinum Series moving heads, ACL Bar 360 LED effect lights and Colour Chorus Series LED battens from Elation Professional.

 

Held on July 10th at the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center, Aspect Lighting of Southern California supplied the lighting and truss structure for the event. Lighting design was by Phil Shearer of lighting and production design company Shearer Entertainment with Aspect Lighting’s Larry Doerr providing creative design and layout input. Lighting design assistance was from Nick Coauette.

 

Fall Out Boy LD Robb Jibson flew in for the show as did Akon LD Lenny Douglas, both of whom had at their disposal a flexible rig that served both as performance lighting and lighting for the Bash party. “The rig was used twofold - as a performance rig and as a party rig for decorative looks and dancing. Programming time was very limited and there was no pre-visualization so there were separate control systems that were discreet of each other which meant that the guest LDs were not hindered by the party lighting,” Phil Shearer explains.

 

Elation’s Platinum Beam 5R Extreme beam lights were mounted on vertical pipe up- and downstage of the proscenium while Platinum SBX hybrid moving heads were positioned over the stage for backlighting the entertainment. “There was 270-degrees of video projection so we had to be mindful of fixture placement as we didn’t want to spill on to the screens,” says Shearer.

 

A visual highlight of the rig was a baseball diamond-shaped truss lined with ACL Bar 360 color-changing LED battens, each fixture with seven 15 W RGBW LEDs and capable of continuous 360° rotation. The design idea came from Larry Doerr.

 

Positioned around the perimeter of the room and used for decorative color lighting were Elation’s Colour Chorus 48 and Colour Chorus 72 LED batten wash lights with RGBA LEDs. 7 x eNode8 Pro, 24 x Opto Branch 8, and 2 x Antari HZ-500 were also used for the MLB All-Star Bash which was produced by Noah Flom of Ark Endeavors. Production Electrician was ‘Wild’ Bill Lemkehul.

 

(Photos: Javier Castellanos)

 

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MLB All-Star Bash with Elation Platinum series movers and effectsMLB All-Star Bash with Elation Platinum series movers and effects

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