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Elation’s Artiste Picasso auditions at London’s Park Theatre

London-based lighting designer Dan Saggars had the opportunity to put Elation’s new Artiste Picasso LED profile to the test on the new drama ‘Distance’ at the Park Theatre in London in September 2018. Saggars required a light that could both wash wide to cover the stage and isolate for dramatic specials and placed the units in overhead and side positions to achieve the desired result.

Projecting texture onto the stage and set for greater contrast and depth of look was important and the designer found an array of useful graphics at his disposal. “The variance in different breakups was great and allowed me to really differ looks,” he says. “The glass gobos installed allow projection-like clarity and the image engine as a whole had really useful applications, especially when overlaying the first and second gobo wheels.”

When laying down color, Saggars says he was able to shift from the naturalistic tones of a train carriage to the murky, abstract colors that reflect the inside of the protagonist’s mind. The Picasso’s 4-blade framing shutter system allowed the designer to refine both beam shape and angle while creating some realistic effects.

(Photos: The Other Richard)

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