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Elation’s Artiste Picasso and Dartz light AT&T Audience Network Music Concerts

Elation’s Artiste Picasso and Dartz light AT&T Audience Network Music Concerts
Elation’s Artiste Picasso and Dartz light AT&T Audience Network Music Concerts

For AT&T Audience Network Music Concerts series performances, DoP/LD Victor Fable lights up to 18 different acts over a six-day taping period in Los Angeles. The concert series feature artists across all genres of music performing on two different stages - a private studio stage and a club stage with live audience.

 

So far this year, Fable has lit two series of shows, one taped in early March at Red Studios in Hollywood and another taped in July at MBS Studios in El Segundo. Elation lighting fixtures have featured in AT&T Audience Network Music Concerts the past few years and this year the designer has turned to two of the company’s newest LED moving heads to help differentiate looks - the Artiste Picasso and the compact Dartz 360.

 

Fable uses an overhead base truss lighting system as part of the standard design for all performances yet needs to find ways to customize looks for each artist on a tight schedule. Although the overhead system changes little from performance to performance as time is limited, the designer has to find ways to make variations by using discreetly placed floor lights and by finding other places to hide luminaires.

 

“If the band sends a set list with color signatures, I’ll incorporate it,” Fable says. “Another determining factor is the band set up and what equipment they might bring. Sometimes they bring in their own stuff and we have to think fast, work quick or work around it. It’s very much something that comes up the morning of the shoot or right before the band comes on.”

 

And, of course, there is an artist’s LD to interact with although Fable doesn’t always know if they will be on location. “You want to give them as much as you can,” he says, although he admits with so many artists to deal with there is little time for nuances and he often paints with big, broad strokes.

 

Fable says he didn’t use the Dartz’s 360 continuous rotation on any of the last 18 shows but did use it to add dynamic movement on a Stone Temple Pilots performance during the first series of shows earlier this year. On the July series taping, which included a performance by KT Tunstall, Fable hung Elation’s new Artiste Picasso LED moving head.

 

The designer has used a slew of other Elation lights on AT&T Audience Network Music Concert shows this year (Satura Profile, Platinum SBX, Platinum FLX, Fuze Wash 120, Fuze Wash 350, and Platinum Beam Extreme) but has a favorite lineup. “If I could choose an arsenal that I would use on every show I think it would be the Dartz and Picasso working with the Fuze,” he says, adding that he would throw in some Platinum Extremes for big punch looks.

 

Lighting programming was by Esteban De La Torre-Alva. Lighting directors were Robert Dick, Esteban De La Torre-Alva and Nicolas McCord.

 

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Elation’s Artiste Picasso and Dartz light AT&T Audience Network Music ConcertsElation’s Artiste Picasso and Dartz light AT&T Audience Network Music Concerts

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