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Corona: Chauvet fixtures used for Girls Inc. livestream fundraiser event

For 45 years, Girls Inc. of New Hampshire has dedicated itself to “equipping girls to overcome barriers.” This April, the Manchester, New Hampshire based organization provided young women with a firsthand example of doing just that. When its usual spring auction at the local Marriott ballroom was preempted by the Covid-19 lockdown, the nonprofit responded by moving its fundraiser online with the help of the Events United at Studio Lab, raising $175,000 from its “first annual virtual auction”.

The one-hour event was livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube and was created with the help of 60 Chauvet Professional F2 LED panels. “We knew that this production wouldn’t benefit from the buzz and excitement of a live auction,” says Tim Messina, owner of Events United. “So, we would have to help create this atmosphere with the backdrop that viewers saw during the auction and the associated music acts.”

Providing this backdrop was a F2 panel video wall that measured 32’ 9” wide by 9’ 10” tall. Covering almost the entire width of the stage, the wall displayed a variety of content throughout the event. “We wanted to make sure that we were always using all 3.3 million pixels,” says Jon Martell, Production Design Manager at Events United and Studio Lab. “The wall was going to be what people saw for the entire time they were viewing the auction. It was going to be the image they kept in their heads.”

The Events United and Studio Lab team created most of the video wall content in-house, while a small fraction of the background graphics was sourced online. “We were provided with branding assets by Girls Inc.,” says Martell. “This gave us a basic color scheme and direction. From there, we made layered graphics and placed them using our media server. It was a bit challenging to get all of their content to play smoothly on the video wall. We were not only working with static graphics, but also live web pages and dynamic text throughout the event. In the end, we were happy with how well everything worked.”

Four Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures were used as front lights for the production. “Additionally, we used 20 Maverick MK2 spots for texture and four R1 washes for hair light,” says Martell.

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