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According to Rick Rudolph of Florida-based Stage Equipment And Lighting (equipment supplier and integrator for Univision's reality-TV beautyfest, now in its third season), Carlos Colina, the show's lighting designer, was impressed with the Infinity S lights' performance upon first demo.
"On this particular job site," notes Rudolph, "the trim was just under 25'. Carlos, along with lighting director John Daniels, had needed a product that would provide the functionality of a big gun, but in a smaller package." The Infinity S lights' intensity, color and compatibility were indeed very attractive to both Colina and Daniels. Thus, 122 Infinitys were employed with "essentially no issues," says Rudolph. "They complemented the set and venue, as well as blended very well with the Coemar iWash Halos we were using."
Billed as offering big brightness from a compact unit, the Coemar Infinity Spot S lights has a zoom range of 35-9 degrees. CMY color mixing, rotating and indexing prism effects, and (one each of) aerial and break-up wheels, seven gobos plus open, respectively, are among the product's features.
The Coemar Infinity Wash S light has a zoom range of 36-6 degrees. It is billed as offering a zoom tight as an ACL, and comes complete with a CTO filter, 360-degree beam shaper, and moonflower effect. CMY color mixing with five colors plus open are included.
"An extremely difficult endeavor in terms of design and lighting, this type of production entailed lots of audience participation, and so was handled at times very much on-the-fly," says Rudolph. "Colina's design is both brilliant and flexible."
The challenge, he claims, was to provide a flexible environment for such a complex setup, in which camera angles were constantly changing. "From a supply standpoint, the quality of the Coemar Infinity S lights, out-of-the-box, was just amazing," he adds.
"Nuestra Belleza Latina's production aspect had proven to be, at certain moments, appearing as a free-for-all. But that's the excitement the producers are looking for...and Coemar's Spot S luminaires are what really made it happen!"
List of lighting equipment provided by Stage Equipment And Lighting included:
2 ACT 12/24 channel 120 volt Distro
2 ACT 48 channel 208 volt ML Distro
7 City Color Blast PDS-750 TR, XLR PS Power Supply
40 Coemar Infinity Spot S
40 Coemar Infinity Wash S
42 Coemar i-Wash Halo
60 Color Kinetics Color Blast 12 TR - Black with a frosted lens
1 ETC ION Console with; 2X20 wing
1 ETC ION Console
7 ETC Source Four 19 Degree
6 ETC Source Four 26 Degree
27 ETC Source Four 36 Degree
13 ETC Source Four 50 Degree
75 ETC Source Four PAR
1 ETC SP 24 touring rack
1 ETC SP 48 touring rack
2 MA Lighting Grand MA Console with Road Case
1 MA Lighting NSP
10 Martin Atomic 3K Strobe
10 Martin Mac 250 Wash
2 Reel FX DF-50 Hazer
2 Robert Juliat Alex Followspot with PP Color Changer
12 Strand 10" 2kw Castor Fresnel
1 TNB Data Lynx Backup device
18 VL 1000AS VL 1000 ARC with Framing Shutters
Road Cases, Networking, and Cable were also included in the package but not listed above.
All photos courtesy of Jorge Gamez of Stage Equipment And Lighting, Inc.
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