CHAUVET Professional Completes Day Rig for Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Over 30,000 EDM fans gathered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for “The Snake Pit Presented By Coors Light,” a one-day festival within an auto race, complete with a light and video show with CHAUVET Professional COLORado fixtures.

Collyns Stenzel of White Light AV designed the accompanying light and video show.

“This is my third year designing this show,” said Stenzel. “It’s fun to see all these fans have the time of their lives in a unique setting. However, there’s also a challenge because the entire festival takes place in the sunlight. This is probably the only event I have ever been involved in that opens before sunrise and ends before sundown. Every year we and the team at CSP (Chris Schroeder Productions) push it a little harder, make it a little bigger and add just a little more ‘lit’ to it.”

A collection of 54 COLORado Batten 144 Tour RGBWA linear washes helped to light the Snake Pit and break up the 50 foot tall by 160 foot wide 8K resolution video wall.

“The video wall was super bright to stand out in the middle of the day,” said Stenzel. “I needed lights that could work with this wall and help me give it some framing and architecture. The actual bodies of the COLORado battens worked very well to stand out against the video tiles when the sun shined on them. The dual lenses of these fixtures helped catch the glimmer of the sun. Also, the colors we got from the COLORados were rich enough and bright enough to show up in the daytime and add to the texture of our stage.”

The concert blared for 10 hours while the video wall displayed custom content that complemented the EDM tunes.

“Our options were fairly limited since this was a daytime only show,” said Stenzel. “Most of the visiting LDs didn’t get involved because of the daytime factor. But we designed with the daylight in mind, so we got some good colorful looks. At the end a lot of the people involved in the show gave us high fives, which felt good.”