Grand Final for Ampco Flashlight

posted:

02/06/2018

Israel taking the prize was the apotheosis of the grand final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, where Ampco Flashlight played a major role as supplier of all lighting, rigging, video and motion systems.

Preparations started as early as October 2017. The dedicated team of commercial, technical and logistics specialists, working closely together with local Portuguese partner Pixel Light, laid a solid base for a flawless production in the Altice Arena. Build up started early April and ended with a 60-hour speed load out.

Over 2500 fixtures, almost 4 kilometres of truss and a huge amount of, cabling, dimmers, distro’s and a state of the art data network was used in this massive TV production attracting over 350 million viewers worldwide.

Marc van der Wel, project director:

“It was very exciting being part of the team, and seeing how our specialists put so much effort, experience and knowledge into this project. I am extremely proud of the way we handled this, and I am grateful for the opportunity and the great cooperation with RTP, Head of Production Ola Melzig, Tobias Aberg and their team.”

Lighting Fixtures

2385 active show fixtures, of which:

772 active Clay Paky
713 active Ayrton
514 active GLP
130 active SGM
225 active various other fixtures (e.g. Vari*Lite, Robe, Portman)

Fixtures by brand/type:

26 active dmx controlled camera light
112 Clay Paky Scenius Profile
197 Clay Paky Scenius Unico
45 Clay Paky Axcor 900
86 Clay Paky Hepikos
169 Clay Paky Sharpy Wash
143 Clay Paky Mythos 2
20 Clay Paky Mythos 1 (performance)
50 ADB Klemantis
64 Ayrton Mistral (back wall)
112 Ayrton Ghibli (audience)
60 Ayrton Nando Beam S6
351 Ayrton Magic Panel FX (big backwall)
96 Ayrton Mini Panel FX (in front stage)
30 Ayrton Magic Dot SX (at front stage)
68 Vari*Lite VL 4000 Wash-Beam
32 Philips Show Line SL 720 ZT
180 GLP X4 L (around arena, audience)
262 GLP JDC-1
64 GLP KN-V Arc (8 full circles)
8 GLP X4 Bar 20
20 SGM P2
89 SGM P5
21 SGM P10
36 Portman P1
12 Portman P3
1 Nova Flower 2k
17 Robe Robospot base station (operating 22 follow spot positions)
19 Robe Robospot Motion Cam
22 Robe BMFL Blade
4 Robe BMFL Wash-Beam
60 various work lights
231 various spare fixtures
1 Robe Dominator 1200 XT

Rigging:

1858 Interal spotladder parts
3908,2 meter trussing (incl. lots of circle parts)
5885 electric chainhoists
3000 shackles
1200 steels
1950 softsteels
177 Broad Weigh wireless load cell

Controlled by:

3 Grand MA 2 sessions, running with;
10 Grand MA 2 full size consoles, 5 active, 5 back-up in network
4 Grand MA 2 light, 2 video, 2 tech ops
39 Grand MA 2 NPU
3 Grand MA 2 VPU MKII
2 Green Hippo Boreal+ Media Server
16 ELC GBX-8 port nodes

..and controlling;

63723 dmx parameters for moving lights
82114 dmx parameters for pixel mapping and backwall of 351x Ayrton Magic Panel FX
3314 dmx parameters for hippotizers
158 universes for moving lights
88 universes for the backwall of 351x Ayrton Magic Panel FX
80 universes rgb pixels in set

Distributed through;

14 HP Enterprice switches;
10 GBE redundant fibernetwork with over 2000 m of Neutrik optical-con dual core fiber.
38740 meter data cabling

Powered + protected by;

3172 mains power circuit breakers
49284 meter power cabling

Video gear:

7 Panasonic RZ31K 31k laser projector (mapping projection for various performances)
2 Barco HDX W20 Flex 20k projector (performance Belgium)
6 Panasonic PT-DZ21K1 21k projector (broadcast to audience)
32 ROE CB3 3,75 mm carbon LED panels (performance Malta)
256 ROE S18 900 mm LED Strip units (performances Sweden, Australia)
3628 meter LED Strip Studio striplight single pixel RGB (light boxes in set, in spheres and ribs)

Motion Control system: