With the On Air Music Awards, the Romanian music
industry started a new show intended to recognize and reward the best of
Romanian music. The award ceremony, taking place in the Great Hall at the
Bucharest National Theater, featured a lighting design by Sergiu Ardelean who
used the cost-free grandMA2 onPC software for pre-programming, and ran the show
on a grandMA2 full-size. Alin Popa was the head of lighting.
Ardelean commented: “For big and complicated
set-ups and productions I always request a grandMA2. The grandMA2 full-size is
a brilliant console, powerful and extremely stable. My luck was that Five’s,
the lighting equipment supplier, owns one. After I saw the stage design and
came up with an idea about what I’d use, I did the pre-patching and pre-programming
on grandMA2 onPC in conjunction with the grandMA 3D visualiser.
“A visualiser is very helpful even if you only have
a simple rendering of the set loaded. And grandMA 3D is the best! It saved me a
lot of time that practically was non existent, enabling me
to complete all the tasks on site in a very tight schedule. We only had two
nights on location for set-up. On show day everything had to be ready early in
the morning for rehearsals. But once you learn your way around grandMA2 you never
go back … and you know now how to work fast and efficiently.”
Five’s delivered the lighting equipment as well as
video, sound and stage material.
“I must say thanks to Mr. Andrei Popea, the general
manager who was there every night with us, and to all the crew who worked hard
to bring the design to life. I’d also like to mention Stefan Botea head of
production and head rigger Lucian Vanca”, added Ardelean.
“Star Management appointed the show’s executive
producer Gina Stroian, a very experienced broadcast professional. While Zoli
Toth and Anca Lupes managed the event as whole, she took over the stage show
production. She hired director Catalin Borozia and set designer Andreea Rotaru.
After they put the show together, Rotaru came up with the spectacular set
design made up only of video screens. Everything was round and appeared to be
floating in the air.”
He continued: “My main goal was to create a
lighting scheme that would help enhance the set, that could create different
looks with different types of fixtures and try to keep them separate and never
all on at the same time. Furthermore I wanted to instill the sense of a big
space and a spectacular ‘glamour gala’ look.”
Photos:
© Starmanagement
