Live Design's fifth annual 31 Days Of Plots features one production per day during the month of December 2022, highlighting a different lighting design, from across theatre, concert tours, corporate events, live for broadcast, and more, as we wind down 2022 and head toward the new year.
For the Hans Zimmer Live Tour, LD John Featherstone of Lightswitch designed a system that “moves and breathes like the music,” using CyberHoists for cues that are fluid and musical, rather than mechanical, with the moving trusses adding an architectural element. In looking for a fixture that is super-versatile and compact, with amazing colors, he opted for the Robe MegaPointe, which can provide anything from “dappled sunlight through the trees with a theatrical focus to the very narrow archetypical rock-show beam.” The architecture of the rig was informed by a mise-en-scène with Zimmer downstage center and the band and orchestra on risers behind him. “I use a lot of sidelight with the MegaPointes on side ladders,” Featherstone points out. The color in the light runs from soft theatrical pastels to a bolder rock palette, tweaking the filters and color wheels in the fixtures to attain the super-saturated tones.
Read the full story here: John Featherstone Lights Hans Zimmer Live
Lighting Gear List
- 24 Robe BMFL wash beam
- 6 Robe BMFL wash beam spot
- 168 Robe MegaPointe
- 22 Robe Tetra 1
- 36 Robe Tetra 2
- 1 2M mirrorball on motor
- Control:
- 1 MA Lighting grandMA3
Credits
- Technical Direction: Tobias Busskamp, Thomas Schmitt
- Lighting Design: John Featherstone
- Lighting Director: Hailey Featherstone
- Lighting Programmer: Chris Herman
- Scenic Design: Derek McLane
- Media Deasign: Peter Nigrini
Lighting Crew
- Jens Modigell- crew chief
- Sascha Laue- systems and network
- Marvin Jürgens- robo spots and systems
- Kevin Schulze-Borgmühl- dimmers
- Ludwig Sigel- kabel 1
- Christoph Konermann- kabel 2
- Mona Rapp- kabel 3
- Peter Hermanns- kabel 4
- CyberHoists: Tobias Frey, Boris HölscherIngo ingo Koenzen Florian Renisch