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Robe equips ‘The Voice Angola’

Three new African countries embraced the singing competition ‘The Voice - South Africa, Angola & Nigeria’, with all three series recorded at and broadcast from Stage One, Sasani Studios, Johannesburg - and all featuring over 100 Robe moving lights on their respective lighting rigs.

Johannesburg based production company Multi-Media is co-ordinating and supplying all technical elements - including lighting, sound, video, rigging and staging - for broadcaster AMPN (African Media & Productions Network) TV over an 11 month period which ends in July 2016.

Multi-Media’s technical project manager, Chris de Lancey, put together the team which includes lighting designer Joshua Cutts. Dewet Meyer won the set design after a four-way pitch. The blind auditions and battle rounds are also staged at Sasani as well as the live finals. The set is based around the essential ‘Voice’ guidelines, remodelled for each series.

Once the set design was signed off, Joshua Cutts - a regular Robe user and LD for ‘SA Idols’ for the last six years - started on the lighting. The set needed lighting from all angles for the 16-camera shoot and the 450 live audience who are seated around 270 degrees of the space.

The set contains a lot of 12.5 mm LED panels, so in terms of lighting, beams were important right from the start to cut through the ambience of the scenic video as well as for the show format. Cutts also wanted a lighting ‘backdrop’ at the stage end that could be pixel mapped, so a grid arrangement includes 12 x Robe CycFX 8s and 24 x LEDBeam 100s together with LED panels and battens.

Around two kilometres of LED tape was installed all over the set by DWR (also Robe’s SA distributor). Forty-eight Robe LEDWash 600s form the base wash lighting covering the set and audience. Twenty-four Pointes were dotted around the studio, all in the air.

Cutts is using 12 x MiniPointe for the first time, four stationed behind the coach’s chairs and the other eight on the stage floor. In addition to these, there are around 68 x LED PARs and 24 x LED battens plus generics, all controlled via Cutts’ own system featuring a GrandMA2 light console and a VPU  running all the video content for set LED panels. The rotation of the coach’s chairs is also controlled through the console.

Joshua Cutts is working closely with design associate Andre Siebrits on the production. FOH sound is engineered by Auriot Booyes from Multi-Media.

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