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Robe illuminates Namibia Annual Music Awards

Robe illuminates Namibia Annual Music Awards
Robe illuminates Namibia Annual Music Awards

For the 2018 Namibia Annual Music Awards (NAMAs), production designer and technical director Micky Lehr and his team from Eventplus combined Namibian talent and resources, supplemented with some regular collaborators from neighbouring South Africa.

 

For the first time, Kurt du Preez was asked to design the lighting for this, the biggest music show in Namibia, and around 140 Robe moving lights were prominent on the rig at the Dome in Swakopmund. These were supplied by Namibian companies DB Audio and Mikel-Jes Productions plus MJ Event Gear from Johannesburg.

 

Eventplus managed all the event’s technical production and artistic direction for their client, NAMA executive producers Tim Ekandjo, from main sponsor and mobile telecoms operator MTC, and Jandre Louw from Rockstar Television. The NAMAs 2018 was broadcast live on Namibian national TV.

 

The show featured a heavily LED digital set design. The Dome venue measures 65 metres wide by 95 metres long along the long edge and has an apex height of 21 metres plus a decent weight loading of around 25 tonnes, so Kurt du Preez was able to get plenty of lighting positioned where needed above the stage and set.

 

The look of the show took a diversion from large square expanses of LED and instead presented a more creative yet equally digital environment, with blocks of LED above, around and at the back of the performance area.

 

Upstage a 15 metre wide by 5 metre long LED backdrop split into three sections. This lifted to allow artist entrances and also moved into different formations to vary the overall aesthetic. There were also three prominent rectangular box trusses in the air running upstage/downstage, one along the centre and two to the sides, also filled with LED. The house band was also located behind a semi-transparent LED surface upstage.

 

Kurt du Preez chose from among some of the most powerful of the Robe light sources currently available.Twelve BMFL Spots were positioned above the band at 15 metres high to clear the set at the back, and shoot through with long-range, intense dramatic beams.Four BMFL Blades were utilised to key light four different areas on the stage.

 

Twenty-four Spiiders, which formed the main back/overhead lighting package, were positioned to illuminate the entire stage, with 18 specifically as back light washes and six taking care of the forestage and forward sections of set as well as the VIP lounge area on the house left side and the presenter area on house right.

 

The 50 x LEDBeam 100s were arranged in 10 rows of 5 on trusses used for effects onstage. Sixteen MiniPointes and 16 x LEDWash 300s were positioned at the back on trussing totems, also for beam effects and alternative angled camera-candy.

 

Kurt du Preez dotted 12 x Pointes around the rig, six above the lounge area and six above the presenters, all shooting straight into the camera. The only other lights onstage for show were 64 x LED PARs. Two GrandMA2 light consoles were used for control.

 

Micky Lehr had the continuity of the same small core production team as for the last three years, including his son Max Lehr who has stage managed since 2016 and this year also took on the role of Production Manager, working closely with assistant stage manager Dylan Jowett as site coordinator. The technical producer since 2015 is Jessica Newton.

 

Eugene Naidoo was the television director. Joining Kurt du Preez at FOH was sound engineer Fried Wilsenach and Jesaya Johannes the AV and video engineer, while Adam Kirby mixed monitors and kept all things audio in check onstage.

 

MJ Event Gear supplied some additional BMFLs, all the MA2 control plus some rigging, motors and controllers. Other smaller suppliers from both Namibia and South Africa were also used to complete the full equipment specifications.

 

(Photos: Micky Lehr, Eventplus)

 

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