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Fineline in action at Islington Square Festival of Culture

Bristol based lighting and visuals rental specialist Fineline was commissioned by production company The Fair to add a lighting ambience to the Islington Square Festival of Culture, a four day event organised by the company at the heart of redeveloping the former site of the N1 post sorting office into a new commercial and residential hub, due to launch in 2017.

Fineline’s Rob Sangwell created a lighting scheme to illuminate a series of indoor and outdoor spaces on the site including a pop-up cinema, a live music stage, a children’s theatre, a community gardening demonstration zone and a markets area.

The Markets area and the bar were internal and illuminated with a series of LED PARs, around 40 in total, together with mirror balls and 250 metres of LED festoon. Other ‘environmental’ lights included Robe Pointes fitted with custom Islington Square logos which beamed around the walls and floor.

Main Stage lighting was a selection of small lights including four Robe Pointes, 8 x LEDBeam 100s, 8 x Chauvet R2 LED Washes and 4 R2 Beams and a sprinkling of PARs rigged on stands and controlled via an Avo Pearl Expert. The stage action featured a string of bands and comedy artists.

In the Garden demo area, Fineline lifted the general space primarily with LED PARs and battens shooting up the walls and lighting shrubbery and foliage in complimentary colours, whilst also providing practical working light with halogen fixtures.

A large Boulevard runs down the middle of the site between the two main buildings with a video-mapped projection show on one side, for which Fineline designed supporting architectural lighting. The goal here was to bring a carnivalesque feel to the Boulevard which was achieved with the help of another 350 metres - over 1000 bulbs - of festoon lighting, zig-zagged along the space, juxtaposed with IP rated colour-changing fixtures firing up the walls.

The areas adjacent to the video projection show were lit with IP rated Chauvet LED floods and four more Robe Pointes were installed, again fitted with custom gobos. The building running along the other side of the boulevard was covered in scaffolding, made into a feature with more Chauvet IP rated LED floods - around 50 units in total. These floods were all controlled via another Avo console.

Over in the Pop Up Cinema, 8 x Robe 600E Spots were utilised to throw breakup patterns and texturing onto the ceiling, together with another two Pointes with more custom gobos. The VIP event opening session featured the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing to a movie which also required additional lighting, delivered with a selection of fresnel and profile halogen sources. House lighting for the cinema was also part of the package plus a couple of strobes used during late night movies like ‘Pulp Fiction’, for which they were synched with sound effects in the movie.

For general branding, Fineline built a trussing goal-post over the main event entrance, next to the development’s marketing suite, to which a large light-box sign - supplied by the organisers - was attached. There were also a couple of other branding structures built around the site.

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