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Chauvet fixtures used at Manchester Christian Church’s Christmas celebration

Over 6,000 people attended Manchester Christian Church’s ‘Christmas at the Arena’ celebration in 2017. Tim Messina and his team at Events United left that event (which featured a ‘snowflake design’ with no traditional upstage wall) determined to find ways they could take their production to the next level for Christmas 2018.

On December 20, they transformed the Southern New Hampshire University Arena with a lighting and video design created with Chauvet Professional Maverick, Rogue, Épix and Strike fixtures, as well as PVP X6IP LED video panels.

Among the things Events United sought to accomplish with their enhanced design was to have the area directly behind the pastor filled with more dynamic visuals. “We wanted to create more interesting looks in the space behind the pastor for our IMAG shots,” says Jon Martell, lead designer and video specialist at Events United. “We felt this area could have been a little more compelling when we had closeups of the pastor and worship leaders.”

The Events United team also wanted to change the looks of the Christmas show by moving away from the video screen that dominated the event in previous years, and go with a design that wove lighting and video more closely together. To accomplish this, they broke up the large video wall from last Christmas into 16 vertical strips made of 80 PVP X6IP tiles.

This arrangement integrated all the visual elements of the show more tightly together and also allowed Events United to create a more dynamic backdrop for closeup shots by positioning tiles in the area directly behind the downstage thrust.

Pipes holding two Rogue R1 Wash units and two Épix Strip Tour linear fixtures were placed around the vertical video walls. These fixtures were divided into two angled side trusses and a center truss on the pipes. Thirty-four Rogue and 34 Épix units were included in the rig.

Having coordinated video images displayed on the PVP X6IP tiles and Épix Strip Tour fixtures strengthened the integrated cohesive look of the design. Resolume Arena 6 was used to play out visuals on the video tiles and strips. “Since the entire show was run by timecode, we turned to our ChamSys MagicQ MQ80 to fire cues in Resolume,” says Martell.

For front lighting and specials, Events United flew 12 Maverick MK2 Spots across downstage truss roughly 30’ in the air. Also included in the rig were 10 Maverick MK2 Wash fixtures, which were used for specials, aerial effects and audience washing. A collection of 10 Maverick MK1 Hybrid fixtures was flown upstage and used for aerial effects as well as specials, and six Strike 4s were positioned over the stage for blinders.

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