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Corona: FL Group streams on with Robe

Lucas Enguerrand and his brother Quentin, who both work at French lighting and visual production and rental company FL Group, based in Morangis, 15 km south of Paris, wanted to keep morale high and their passion for music and lighting alive in a meaningful way during the Covid-19 lockdown.

With the full permission and support of FL Group owner Francois Lamberdière, they activated a plan to utilise the company warehouse and other available resources like equipment - and with a little help from their friends, have started producing “full production” live streams working with a number of contemporary French artists.

The Enguerrands started by creating a lighting and video design inspired by the conical shape of an hour-glass timer. Three chevron-shaped trusses were rigged in descending order of size - largest at the top - in the warehouse roof, each truss with an LED video border on the front edges. Each truss was loaded with Robe LEDBeam 150s, twenty-four in total. Ten were on the highest two trusses, eight on the middle two and six across the two lowest sections.

For back lighting and retina-burning blasts through from the rear were 12 x MegaPointes. Two Tarrantulas were used to side light the artists, and at the front for key lighting were four BMFL WashBeams on stands. All fixtures were pulled from the company’s 400-strong fleet of Robe fixtures and were programmed and controlled via a GrandMA2 console. “The idea was basically to make it appear like a festival main stage,” says Lucas Enguerrand.

To test out their creation, Lucas and Quentin asked French rapper Rim’K - who has several connections with the company - if he would check it out, which he did - while shooting the official video for his new release ‘Midnight’. After that, the lockdown intensified, and the brothers decided to try and get some live stream work going.

They changed up the set and scenic elements of the “production space” after the Rim’K video shoot and approached their industry contacts and friends in music and artist communities. A variety of DJs and music producers lined up to take a streaming spin in the warehouse. Their sets have been broadcast on Facebook Live and Twitch.

(Photos: Fyve/FL Group)

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