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Vari-Lite VL3600 used at HiJinx Festival

Philadelphia’s HiJinx Festival transformed the Pennsylvania Convention Center into a two-night EDM New Year’s Eve party. Production company Raw Cereal created a range of effects using Vari-Lite VL3600 fixtures from Signify.

Raw Cereal’s Cort Lawrence joined HiJinx as production designer and creative director for the inaugural Philadelphia incarnation of the festival in 2018 and has been raising the bar ever since. Working with Live Nation Philadelphia, which runs HiJinx, Lawrence created a design that integrated multiple artists’ production riders, resulting in a curated lighting environment.

“We supplied a design that pushed forward current design trends and technology, creating the right balance between lighting, lasers, and video”, he says. “EDM fans are well educated when it comes to production, so we do our best to wow and dazzle them with lights and give them a fresh show every year.”

The Raw Cereal team learned about the VL3600 following a demo by Tyler Gannaway, Vari-Lite Business Development Manager Central and Eastern Rental & Touring at Signify, and went on to work with Nashville’s Premier Global Productions to invest in them for the HiJinx Festival. Raw Cereal’s Austin Schneider served as the festival’s lighting programmer and operator.

The team rigged 26 VL3600s in the cavernous Pennsylvania Convention Center space for the HiJinx Festival - twenty VL3600 fixtures were placed over the audience in two 50’ long trusses, with a further five used as a hybrid fixture for LDs to use as keylight or point them into the audience for effects, utilizing framing shutters to achieve a clean focus, to create a club-like feel.

“We allocated one further VL3600 for the DJ ‘God light’, which allowed us and guest LDs to carve the DJ out of the video”, says Schneider. Being a multi-act event, some performers drafted in their own lighting designers, with the VL3600s being the workhorse fixtures for the entire festival.

“Guest LDs were quick to clone the VL3600s and learn about their capabilities from house LD Austin Schneider”, says Lawrence. “Every LD had different uses of the lights, which allowed an evolving show as we would continue to see new looks arise from the VL3600s with each operator.” Raw Cereal’s Austin Strain worked alongside the team as assistant lighting programmer and operator.

(Photos: Dylan Long/Signify)

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