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Directors: Radical Friends
Director of Photography: Matthias Montero
Lighting Designer: Matt Ardine
Lighting Console Programmer: Derek Hoffman
Best Boy Electric: Tyler Anderson
DMX Tech: Heather Newson
Lighting Rentals: Cinlease
Lighting Rentals: Volt

Lighting Gear

2 – 30w Lasers
2 – 22w Lasers
8 – 24×2.4 kw dimmer packs
12 – Source 4 Lustre
12 – Colorforce 72
4 – Colorforce 12
4 – Sharpys
3 – Atomic 3000s
50 – Pixel Nodes
12 – Pixel Tubes
2 – Arri L7
1 – Arrimax 18k
3 – Arri M40
10 – Litegear Litestix

GrandMA2 Full
GrandMA2 OnPC
GrandMA2 Command Wing
2 – GrandMA2 NPU
2 – TMB Proplex Fiber Switches
750′ Multimode Fiber
1 – Wireless Router
10 – Optosplitter
2 – RC4 Wireless Dimmers/Receivers
7 – WDMX Transeivers

The challenging part of this video was getting all 16 sets lit and that every light can be controlled and cued from anywhere in the huge building. We decided on using 2 GrandMA2 desks and a seperate computer running OnPC software. The OnPC computer acted as the master and the 2 desks could connect and disconnect anywhere within the building without any interruption in DMX output. The two racks of NPU’s were connected with fiber since their distance exceeded ethernet’s limit of 100 meters.

Another challenge with the large space was getting WDMX to be able to be received throughout the building. There was an onboard camera light that was a Litegear Hydrid Pad and a Jem Ball with 5 meters of Litegear Hybrid ribbon inside. Both were operated on batteries and used RC4 dimmers/receivers. Since RC4 only has a 200′ range, an electrician used a backpack as a roaming repeating station with a WDMX receiver sending data to the RC4 transmitter. This controlled allowed Matthias to be able to dim and change the color of the camera lights from anywhere in the building.