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Allen Branton chooses Chauvet for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony design

HBO’s recent broadcast of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony - held at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, a 152,970 sq. ft. multi-purpose arena in Cleveland - saw a lighting design by Allen Branton and production design by Bruce Rogers.

Branton used a collection of 104 Chauvet Professional Colordash Accent 3 compact washes, which, like the rest of the rig, was supplied by 4Wall Entertainment. Positioning the RGBA fixtures along the sides of the stage as well as in the blacked out seats behind and to either side of it, Branton used them to define space and maintain consistency between camera shots.

“The Colordash units served as a point source element”, he says. “They filled space, when we went out to wide shots, helping us create a stage picture in scale within the huge venue. Colordashes and some big beams in the blacked out seats 60 or 70 feet behind the stage created a frame around our already large picture.”

Over 700 lighting fixtures, including the Maverick MK3 Wash and Rogue R1 BeamWash, illuminated the Induction Ceremony stage. At the center of the design was a parabolic video wall and a series of six “guitar strings” (actually vertically oriented truss units roughly 40-feet in height), as well as four shorter truss units, which like their larger counter parts, were vertically oriented and angled.

In addition to creating more opportunities for back lighting, the four shorter vertical trusses, which were about 30-feet high, were part of a layered design approach, with the final layer being almost 100 ft. from the downstage edge.

Also deepening the looks were hard edged lights on mid-stage truss trimmed 10-feet off the deck behind the video walls. The video wall layers were alternately hi-res opaque and lower res blow thru (translucent), positioned at different depths.

“A lot of what you saw in this show was blow through light”, says Branton. “You could see the light through the various layers of the set design, which made for richer pictures and also allowed for a great variety in our cue composition, something essential in a multi-act event of this kind.”

The background video content, created by Darmah, consisted of breakout patterns and scenic looks as well as IMAG imagery. The four Maverick MK3 Wash and 52 Rogue R1 BeamWash units were positioned on the larger “guitar strings” and used for creating camera-friendly visuals as well as audience lighting.

Branton’s team included Felix Peralta, Kevin Lawson, George Gountas, Alex Flores, Michael Smallman, Adam Hagin, Matt Weede, Benoit St-Aubin, and Brendan Johns. Bianca Moncada’s team at Darmah comprised Erick Mothelet, Jose Garcia-Reyes, Sergio Romero, Victor Martin, and Liangel Castellanos.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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