The Incheon Asian Games
in Korea is the largest sporting event in Asia — set on an Olympic scale, with around 10,000 athletes from 45 countries
representing 36 sports.
For the 17th edition, both the Opening
and Closing Ceremonies were held in the 62,000-capacity purpose built Incheon
Asiad Main Stadium, with K-Pop stars and Gangnam
Style singer Psy headlining the star-studded opening show.
With
‘Diversity’ as the theme, the large rental company Canlite drew on huge
quantities of PR Lighting fixtures, deploying nearly 200heads to perform
specific tasks — comfortably the largest single brand represented. At the same
time it met the specification of lighting designer, Han Soo Na, and his
programmer Young Gu Kang.
The
inventory included more than 100 powerful PR 5000 Spot, Wash and Framing
variants — many of them positioned, along with XR 330 Beams on the top of the
roof to deliver strident lighting effects directly to the centre of the stage
during the music sequences.
All the
fixtures were purchased new and were customised specifically for the Asian Games— but first they had to
successfully undergo rigorous quality control and camera tests, with Canlite
reporting that the colour palette of the XR 330 Beam and colour temperature
comfortably met the standards for demanding TV and camera work.
At the same time, the overall brightness and
output of all units also satisfied the technical requirements, while the
fixtures were easy to programme at the grandMA2 lighting console.
It is
for this reason that Canlite holds a large inventory of PR Lighting pieces,
including high end products like the PR 5000 Series, midrange fixtures such as
the XR 330 Beam in addition to LED Studio products.
Said Canlite’s Sang Shin Lee, “We chose these
fixtures because they are both powerful and fully featured, with advanced
functions, reliability and excellent all round performance.”
He added
that because the PR lights are so bright and easy to handle, fewer fixtures
were required to cover the entire stadium. The XR 330 itself has a fast
movement and vivid lights, and the wide number of lighting effects generated
also proved very useful, noted Sang Shin Lee.
PR
Lighting is now becoming accustomed to lighting up large scale spectaculars —
most memorably at the Bird’s Nest for the Beijing Olympics. After the
Olympics PR again
provided a large quantity of pieces to Shanghai
World Expo 2010 and Guangzhou
Asian Games 2012, as well as other mega events.
Commenting
on the event, PR Lighting’s International Assistant Sales Director, Sasha Xiong
said, “It is gratifying that once again PR Lighting’s fixtures were selected
for such a mega project as the Asian
Games and we thank both our customer and lighting designer for investing
so much confidence in the brand with this deployment.
“PR Lighting and its products have picked up many plaudits from
customers for those large scale events, and this groundswell of praise has
given us the confidence and technical competence to advance even further into
the high profile events sector.\”
