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Robe supports Autosport show

Robe supports Autosport show
Robe supports Autosport show

Nathan Wan’s lighting design for the Live Action Arena at the 2017 Autosport show - staged in Hall 5 of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, UK - featured nearly 300 Robe moving lights. Wan has lit the show for the past few years working with technical consultants and equipment suppliers Network Productions. This year their technical director Nick Halliday and production manager Dave Beel were working with a new creative team.

 

With cameras positioned 360 degrees all around the arena, it was essential to ramp up the lighting levels to match the excitement, and the aim was to get as much even coverage as possible around the vast space which is also the UK’s largest indoor racetrack for the duration of the show.

 

Last year Nathan Wan had illuminated the track with around 250 x 1K PAR 64s but this year these were replaced with 84 x BMFL Spots, all supplied by Network Production. A network of trusses was rigged in the roof, trimmed at nine metres, including four 90 metre long sections, one above the audience and three ‘stage’ left and right over the track and another two 20 metre long side trusses, all of which Wan populated with the 84 x BMFLs.

 

Four of these fixtures on the audience truss were used for key lighting presenter Sky Sports TV broadcaster David Croft and his various guests. These four BMFLs replaced follow spots that had been used in previous years. Using a combination of the linear prism and various gobos enabled Wan to shape the light and create some asymmetrical looks. BMFLs were also used to reveal the cars once they were in position on the track at the start of the races, and also to throw looks across the space for strategic moments.

 

A hundred and forty-four LEDBeam 100s were used to light six ‘scenic’ five metre high L-shaped street-race style gantries that protruded nine metres over the track, introduced to bring a F1 Singapore/Baku city track flavour to the ring. Nathan Wan programmed these with arcing and strobing effects.

 

Another scenic gantry was built over the track at the start line which was lit with generic PARs and 90 pixel battens around the outside wall of the main track provided a layer of up and back lighting. Thirty Robe Pointe multi-purpose fixtures were rigged around a special loop-the-loop structure for the show finale.

 

The back-lit loop structure was first revealed from behind an LED screen, with Pointes all around it - a look for which Nathan Wan was inspired by Pink Floyd’s rings of moving lights around their famous central circular projection surface. Wan programmed and ran the lightshow and a series of MDG Atmosphere generators from an Avolites Arena console, complete with a Tiger Touch for backup.

 

(Photos: Ashton Wan)

 

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