Grand Final for Ampco Flashlight

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

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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:

46 CyberMotion CyberHoist 2 (moving 15 lighting elements)

2 MotionCue3D CyberMotion control systems

Logistics:

3,688,000,000 liters of truckspace

886,290 kilograms of cargo

172,365 km truck travelling

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