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National Christmas Tree switch-on with GLP X4

Part of the LA-based Full Flood collective of lighting designers, Matthew Firestone has been responsible for illuminating the National Christmas Tree, set in front of the White House, for the past three years. While last year the 50ft high tree twinkled in amber and warm white, along with the various state territory lights, the performance stages featured a series of guest artists, along with GLP’s new X4 Atom.

Each year America’s first family attends the event, and following a countdown, the President throws the switch to begin the show, which was hosted by Reese Witherspoon this time. In order to light the entire area, including the host stage, located in front of the tree and the White House, the performance stage, housing an orchestra from a different armed forces each year, along with an audience of around 12,000, a large inventory of fixtures was sourced from PRG. The Atoms were placed around the National Tree as little points of light for both wide shots and close-ups.

Matt Firestone also dipped into GLP’s standard impression X4 inventory, having now replaced conventional wash luminaires with around 40 of the X4. “This drastically cuts down the amount of dimming and cabling required,” he states. The impression X4 was thus deployed as a primary wash light for both the main and host stages, as well as backlighting on the audience.

Matt Shimamoto, who has worked with Firestone on the project for the past three years, handled programming duties on a GrandMA2 while the latter called the show from a TV truck set in the production compound.

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