The Granite United Church hired outside production company, Events United, to take the lighting and production reins of their three-day Warrior Conference and use fixtures and video tiles from CHAUVET Professional.
“We have enjoyed a longtime relationship with this church,” said Tim Messina of Events United. “In the past, they would get all their campuses together and use the equipment we sold them for this conference. As the conference grew, however, it got to the point where they wanted a more professional production, so they brought us onboard as their production company. We kept building the production to new levels, and this year Gregg worked with us to push it even higher.”
The conference’s two projection screens and single 14’ projection screen were replaced with a 28’ wide by 8’ high LED video wall made of 85 PVP X6IP 6.9mm panels.
“Eliminating the old projected side screens allowed us to go wider with our lighting,” said Messina. “We wanted the lighting rig to be wider and more immersive, while also making a room with a relatively low ceiling look bigger.”
Four COLORado 2 Solo washes were positioned behind the wall to shine light through the open louvers of the PVP panels.
“It looked awesome when we shined light from the COLORados through the video wall,” said Messina. “This had a dramatic effect when the video wall went to a black background with white text and a white border. A thing that really contributed to the immersive quality of this production was the way video and lighting worked together.”
A collection of Maverick moving fixtures, including six Maverick MK1 Hybrids, four Maverick MK2 Spots, and 12 Maverick MK2 Washes, also filled out the lightshow at the conference and texturized the stage.
“Our MK2 Spots really made this rig come alive and let us get some huge looks, using only four of them,” said Messina. “Their gobos gave us a lot of unique looks. The spots are also very bright, especially for LED fixtures, which helped balance our video wall.”
A collection of 20 Rogue R1 Wash moving lights and 10 STRIKE 4 multi-formatted fixtures created a backdrop for the band and musical portion of the conference.
“We had two washes and one STRIKE on each pipe, just below the video wall,” said Messina. “This allowed Ryan Lane, our LD, to create fast moving patterns with the R1s as well as push through some serious punch with the STRIKEs when he needed big hits. There were four other STRIKE 4s hanging on the outside towers that acted as blinders, strobes, and house lights. Ryan was easily able to match the color temperature of all the Mavericks and R1s to the STRIKEs to make the whole rig look tungsten- it was a beautiful sight!”
