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UK Scouts WS2008 Festival

The UK's scout movement is one of the freshest and most innovative young-people's organisations in the world.

The SXS team have had the pleasure of working with the organisation on many events over the last three years including their jamborees and large gang shows.

 

The Brief

2008 brought on the massive WS2008 festival for which SXS were approached to provide stage, sound, lighting, and technical support for the main outdoor stages and a smaller indoor stage area.

As the scouts are a innovative and open-minded client, the show was an opportunity for the SXS team to try some new lighting and Stage Hire concepts.

 

Despite the exciting new technology available to lighting designers at present, many lighting system tend to look very "samey".

The SXS team aspire to create exciting and original concepts with both conventional and the latest equipment.

 

As such a large lighting system was provided with a large quantity of LED battens.

Around 30 battens were used for colour-chaning back-light and crowd blinding effects. The battens were rigged throughout the stage as well as additional IP- rated units used on the PA wings.

 

Expertise

SXS worked alongside Andy Hook from Shock Solutions (www.shocksolutions.co.uk) who provided a Jands Vista lighting desk and some additional moving lights, including a stunning moving head laser.

Andy's quality programming made a huge impact on the overall quality of the event.

To create a more imposing appearance of the Stage Hire system, additional trilite ground supports were provided either side of the stage.

 

Project Manager: Adrian Cottle
Production Manager: Alex Thompson
Lighting Programming and provision of additional kit: Andy Hook
Sound Engineer: Alex Thompson
Sound Assistant: Ben Virgo
Lighting Rig Design: Alex Thompson, Adrian Cottle & Andy Hook
Relevant Links: www.shocksolutions.co.uk www.bathgangshow.com

 

 

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