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Corona: Chauvet fixtures used at Space Coast City Fest

For Events United, the Space Coast City Fest - a two-day evangelical conference held in Melbourne, FL - represented its first large-scale live event since the pandemic started. The Events United team put together a stage for the praise music stars while dealing with COVID-19 safety protocols and problematic weather throughout the event.

“The winds got pretty intense at some points. The gusts ended up peaking around 35 mph”, says Jon Martell, who made up the Events United team along with Donald Van Slyke, Chase Clark, Ryan Lane, and Joel Pelletier. As a result of the wind, the festival had to shut down for most of Sunday, putting time pressure on the crew.

“Our headliner couldn’t load in until later that afternoon and we ended up building a ‘C’ stage out in the audience so we could have some of the program happen without being on the main stage”, explains Martell. “The PA was landed, the lighting rig was high and tight, and the LED walls were lowered, but the show was able to go on without any danger.”

At dusk, the winds died down, and the festival moved forward as planned. Events United supported the stars on stage with an immersive light and video show that featured Chauvet Professional Maverick and Strike fixtures as well as X6IP and F4IP video panels.

A collection of 72 X6IP panels was arranged in a vertical configuration to serve as the upstage video wall, while 112 F4IP panels were used to create stage left and right walls that were hung from cranes. There were an additional two delay screens hung to cover the massive area.

“We made the side walls large and positioned them as high as possible, because we wanted to make them visible to the entire crowd, which was very spread out”, says Chase Clark, who served as A1 and monitor tech for the event. “This venue was a giant open field and the intention was to have everybody spread apart for social distancing. The center screen on the stage was hung for lyrics and effect.”

The big side walls were used to display IMAG or pre-produced videos. Content was fed to them from a broadcast truck that handled all of the video feeds. The center wall was fed content from the bands as well as festival branding graphics. All video content was fired through Resolume on their servers.

Complementing the video images was light from the 24 Maverick MK2 Spot and 8 Maverick MK1 Hybrid fixtures in the rig. The design team positioned 16 of the spot units across four truss fingers so they could better deliver dynamic aerial crossing patterns and lend texture to the stage.

The remain eight spots were arranged on cases in a straight line along the upstage deck and were used to create silhouettes as well as aerial effects. Hung on upstage truss, the Maverick MK1 Hybrid fixtures filled a variety of roles from providing stage lighting, to creating gobos and specials. For washing, the team used 12 Maverick Storm 1 Wash fixtures flown on downstage truss.

(Photos: Events United/Chauvet Professional)

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