Young
Brazilian sertanejo rhythm singer Lucas Ferreira – one of the countries new
sertanejo pop music sensations – staged a huge show in Lençóis
Paulista in the outskirts of São
Paulo – his birthplace – to film his first ever DVD.
The venue
was in a charismatic disused warehouse in the industrial district of the city
which served as a perfect \’found\’ space.
An
eye-catching lighting scheme was created by LD Leonardo Oliveira using 50 x
Robe ROBIN Pointes and 40 x Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600s.
Leonardo had
full creative freedom for the shoot, and adapted his lighting ideas and style
to suit a large industrial venue.
He was
asked onboard as LD by musical producer Ivan Miyazato, and rental company Showdesign
from São Paulo provided all the rental services, set up and support.
Three
trusses above the stage were each rigged with eight Pointes and seven LEDWash
600s, and for backlight from the sides, five LEDWashes were rigged in two
special left-and-right structures.
The other nine LEDWash 600s were used to provide light for the front of
the stage.
On the floor
each side of stage was a line formed out of six Pointes and in the middle of
the upstage also on the floor was another line of eight Pointes.
Finally at
the FOH position there was another line of six Pointes.
Robe’s
moving lights were used for dramatic lighting effects and creating different
atmospheres for each song.
“Using
Robe always gives me a wide range of possibilities,” says Leonardo. “I always
work with Robe, so every time I have the chance to specify them I feel safe
because I know they are reliable and that I will always satisfy everybody’s
needs with Robes on the rig”.
On the
Pointes, he commented, “When we needed speed and accuracy, the Pointes worked
just as we wanted. We used a lot of frost in the show precisely to have a
bigger aperture in the on-camera beam effects. The results were excellent!”
Leonardo
programmed and operated lighting using a grandMA2 light. “We used timecode to
trigger scenes for two reasons: first, because of the show’s complexity since
it had so many lighting cues; secondly, because it needed syncing with the
video content,” he explained.
The Director
of Photography was Rogério “Carioca” Fernandez and, in total,
14 technicians from Showdesign worked on the project over three set-up
days, one rehearsal day and one day for the record.
In addition
to the grandMA2 light, an MA Command Wing was also on the network and a grandMA
VPU managed all the video playback material.
For video,
there were two 4.2 x 6 meter LED screens – one each side of the stage – running
simultaneous broadcasts, and at the back of the stage there were 10 blocks of
LED screen measuring 1.92 x 1.28 meters each fed with pre-recorded content.
Eighteen
year old Lucas Ferreira’s first eponymous DVD features special guests artists
Munhoz & Mariano, and will be released at the end of the first quarter of
2014.
Photo caption:
(from left to right) Rogério “Carioca”
Fernandez, Leonardo “Maça” Oliveira and Everaldo Zator from Showdesign.
