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Source Productions’ Technical Productions Department were commissioned
by Eclipse Presentations to provide a lighting system for the Australia
Day celebrations at the Australian High Commission in London on 23
January this year.
The event involved a Thai-themed gala dinner created by the famed
Australian Michelin star chef, David Thompson, of Nahm in Belgravia, and
a cabaret of Australian artists including Philip Quast, Kirby Hughes and
Sam Harrison to entertain the diners. The evening culminated in the
presentation of the much-coveted Australia Day UK awards for Australian
of the Year, Honorary Australian of the Year and Young Australian
Achiever of the Year.
Point Source Productions provided lighting for the exterior and
reception areas for the evening, in addition to lighting the Gala Dinner
and cabaret. Lighting Designer, David Miller, working on behalf of
Point Source Productions, used a simple uplighting effect to colour-wash
the front of Australia House, picking out its architectural features,
whilst employing a series of Chroma-Q Color-Punches to colour wash the
ceilings in the reception areas and highlight the further points of
architectural beauty inside.
Within the Gala Dining Room, Martin MAC 300s were used to colour-wash
the room and an array of Martin MAC700s and MAC 550s used to create
animated gobo washes across the ceiling. These Martin fixtures also
provided a variety of lighting states to complement the cabaret acts and
augment the conventional fixtures lighting the performance and
presentation stages.
Finally, low voltage fixtures at floor level were used to highlight the
spectacular flower arrangements and other set dressing throughout the
venue.
Bradley Hill, Project Manager for Eclipse Presentations, was very happy
with the finished result: “It was amazing to see the different effects
that were created across the dining room to complement each song during
the cabaret acts,” he said. |
