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Corona: Elation IP-rated lighting for California Bayside’s outdoor Christmas village and light show

Bayside Church in Granite Bay, California, one of the largest churches in the Sacramento area, wanted to do something special for its congregation this holiday season. As a special holiday gift to the community, Bayside built a Christmas village complete with ice-skating rink, towering Christmas tree and special Christmas light show featuring dynamic IP-rated luminaires from Elation Professional.

Alec Takahashi, a former lighting designer and lighting director at the church, was called on to light the project and worked on creative production with the church’s creative team, including Bayside creative director Corbin Phillips. Felix Lighting of Southern California supplied all of the lighting gear for the project.

The Christmas experience, which included a 10-minute light show, opened on November 25th and ran through January 3rd. Takahashi says he sought lighting that could hold up under winter weather conditions and turned to Elation’s 50,000-lumen Proteus Maximus. “We ended up using 48 of them on the project”, he says. “They were the workhorses of the light show.”

The LED-based Maximus fixtures served a variety of purposes from textures onto the church building, to generic washes for the Christmas village, to punchy beams into the night sky. Positioned on rooftops and other structures, some from behind the village to give the look depth, others worked from lighting towers 150 ft away.

Takahashi comments: “For the main look of the show, we had building rooftop fixtures zoomed at their tightest and shooting beams into the sky. There was often some low fog or the surrounding houses were burning fires so it added a texture of smoke to the air.”

Some of the Maximus fixtures were located on lighting towers to throw color or gobo texture across the church building itself with others used for texture onto the trees or to add more color. Maximus fixtures positioned in the show viewing area supplied a general wash of color or were zoomed out for punchy looks in white such as a big moment at the end of the tree lighting, a look Takahashi calls one of his favorites: “At the final tree lighting we were able to get a really nice punch at the final hit of the musical note of the song. As the tree hit its final white light moment the 30 rooftop Maximus fixtures slow faded into a fan look over the tree.”

Also used to create atmosphere by coloring the building, structures and ice rink in holiday colors were 93 Elation Fuze Par Z120 IP LED par lights, along with 55 SixBar 1000 IP LED battens. “We didn’t want to use their existing parking lot lighting or building lighting but wanted the atmosphere to be something different so we lit the whole area including the walking and general use areas in colorful, warm lighting”, explains Takahashi.

The Christmas light show was time-coded to music and also featured figure skaters, lasers and a pixel-mapped Christmas tree of 3000 RGB pixels. Two light shows ran nightly with a general village look decorating the area before and after each show.

Assistant lighting programmer was Nick Chang. Christopher Novielli was the laser programmer, Ben Walton was the production manager. Show production manager was George Krapivko. Ryan Pizzo and Brendon Caudle were the show operators. The laser company was Nu-Salt Laser.

(Photos: Elation Professional)

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