Lighting designer Giovanni Pinna used 26 CHAUVET Professional Maverick Storm 3 BeamWash and 55 Color STRIKE M, imported by Zalight and serviced by Agora, to hold their own against a giant video backdrop on Tiziano Ferro’s stadium tour.
Tiziano Ferro’s Italian summer stadium tour, which included a sold-out San Siro in Milan, retraced 25 years of songs in Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Behind him, video content created by Comix ran on a 1,000 square metre screen, and Giovanni Pinna’s lighting design was built to integrate with it.
Pinna worked with creative director/stage designer Gio Forma, video director Cristian Biondani, associate LD Marco De Nardi and programmer Marco Zucchinali.
Content planned six months ahead
The content and all interactions with the LED walls were meticulously crafted and carefully planned from the start. Thanks to our direct contact with Comix, the English company that created all the content, we already had a clear vision of the work they were preparing six months in advance. With this in mind, we reviewed the content for each song, but above all, we worked on the interaction between content, automation, and lighting, Pinna said.
Automated truss framing the video
The setup featured five 10-metre-long in-line truss systems, all automated, across the full width of the stage. Their fixtures continuously interacted with the LED wall content, and for many songs the automation was used to frame the content, creating different looks and video matrices and defining new spaces on stage.
Despite the size of the screen, Pinna says the video left room for the lighting: “Of course, we’re talking about a huge screen, but it was used with great care and also very well calibrated, leaving a lot of space for the lights compared to many other situations in which you have such a large LED wall as a backdrop.”
Mavericks for ten dancers
More than half the show was choreographed, with 10 dancers on stage, and the Mavericks were dedicated mainly to that. “I used 18 Mavericks alternating on the front of the stage for backlighting, and another eight, always on the ground, for the dance floor area: 3 + 3 external and 2 + 2 internal,” said Pinna. He also used them for audience lighting, relying on their colour quality and a zoom wide enough to cover the stage and the catwalk.
In short, I used them in their essence as washes – colour and power – and they really gave me a lot, he said.
Color STRIKE M across the full stage width
Pinna already knew the Color STRIKE M from his work for Vasco Rossi. “They covered the entire width of the stage and always worked at 100-percent. They were the real ‘hard core’ for illuminating the audience. Beyond that, they did a lot of ‘graphic’ work, both in effects and colour, with an extremely strong impact on the show.”
Products used: 26 CHAUVET Professional Maverick Storm 3 BeamWash and 55 Color STRIKE M.
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