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Corona: Stacked Hearts selects Elation for virtual summer camp

Each year, WinShape Camps attracts over 30,000 students to its Christian-led summer camps across the U.S. but like most outdoor camps were forced to cancel in-person events this year due to the Covid pandemic.

Therefore, WinShape has been working with Stacked Hearts Productions to create a virtual experience that brings the fun of summer camp directly into homes. Through a combination of video content and home-delivered packages, the virtual experience ON offers kids K-12 something new to explore every week.

The virtual experience broadcasts live eight hours a day, five days a week from a gymnasium on the WinShape campus in Rome, Georgia. Peter Streiff, President of Stacked Hearts Productions, an events and production firm based in Atlanta, has worked with WinShape Camps for a number of years. He and his crew have stayed busy through the 5-week camp by broadcasting a morning show, an end-of-day show, worship segments, games and field activities, as well as Thursday night shows for K-6 and 7-12 graders complete with bands.

The segments are broadcast from three different sets - a performance set, host set and theme set - all purpose-built and housed within the gymnasium building. All three sets are lit using LED lighting from Elation Professional, along with other lighting, supplied to WinShape by Elite Multimedia of Nashville. Streiff and Stacked Heart Productions provided the primary set and lighting design for the three sets with a portion of the performance set design done by Scott Moore of Go Live Productions, Nashville.

Mike Marcario handles on-site lighting direction and programming. He explains the setup: “The morning show divides the set into three spaces - ‘host lower’ which is used for host games and host interactions with guests, ‘host upper’ which is used for the desk and interview segments, and ‘performance stage’ which is used for games and music performances. At times, all three divisions are used simultaneously with live transitions between them. The night show however divides the set even further, dividing the ‘host upper’ set into three spaces for various vignettes.”

Most performances take place on the performance set. “We chose the small ACL 360i single-beam mover and use 144 of those in a 12 x 12 matrix. It allowed us to build a lot of different concert looks, from a matrix wall to a low or high trim matrix ceiling,” comments Peter Streiff of Stacked Hearts Productions. The performance space uses a unique lighting floor package for each night show, consisting of varying combinations of Artiste DaVinci, Platinum Seven and Rayzor 360Z fixtures.

On the host set, a flexible studio space that hosts a lot of the younger kid programming, rich colors from fixtures like the Rayzor 360Z moving head wash help give it a classic TV studio feel. For the Thursday night late night show, Pixel Bar 120IP LED battens dress the house band set.

(Photos: Madison Vander Hoek)

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