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Robe BMFL Blades for All Africa Games opening ceremony

For the opening ceremony of the 2015 All Africa Games in Brazzerville, Republic of the Congo, French based creative event production designers Concept K were brought on-board by the With Up agency and commissioned to create the event’s lighting and visual design, which also included projections onto the field-of-play at the 60,000 capacity Stade Municipal de Kintele venue. The overall event production company was Richard Attias & Associates. Jérôme Pasteur was the chief project manager for With Up and the OC show was directed by Fanny Moreau.

As soon as the job was confirmed, Concept K started thinking about the lights to realize their design, and project lighting designer Jean-Francois Bonnement suggested BMFL Blades for all the long throw work in the stadium. Robe Lighting France then made sure that the BMFL Blade units were available for various tests, which included a session ‘in situ’ at the Parc des Princes football stadium in Paris.

Concept K LD Christophe Roirand recommended that they specified the 32 x BMFL Blades for the opening ceremony in Brazzerville. The BMFL Blades were purchased specially for the occasion by French rental company Dushow which delivered all the lighting equipment for the opening ceremony.

The BMFL blades were part of the top layer of lighting right around the stadium roof and used for shooting beams and creating effects. At other times they were directed downwards onto the pitch and the performance area to light 15 special 10 x10 metre mobile trucks being used by actors, dancers and cast.

The lighting was operated for the event by Concept K’s project manager and senior programmer Alex Bucher using a GrandMA2 console. In addition to the BMFL Blades, 60 x Robe Pointes - another recent purchase by Dushow - were deployed around the lower rings of the stadium and used for sharp beam effects. They were also used for key lighting onto the cast of performers. The Dushow Group has now purchased a total of 115 BMFLs - a mix of Blades and Spots - all delivered by Robe Lighting’s new French subsidiary.

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