What started off as 100 dancing crews competing across South Africa, came to a finale at the Red Bull Beat Battle, at Bass Line in Johannesburg in May 2012. The live show was recorded for a European television broadcast.
AV Unlimited was commissioned by VWV to cater for the full technical production and used bright, striking effects to compliment the high energy performance.
Lighting
The lighting design included 12 Clay Paky Sharpies, 24 Robe 100 LED Beams, six Martin 600 Washes and six Martin Mac700 Profiles, amongst other fixtures.
With no bars in the roof and no rigging points, the fixtures were flown above the stage and also positioned on the catwalk and on the stage.
AV Unlimited’s Victor Vermaak was the Technical Production Manager for the event. “When I heard we were going to do a Red Bull event I googled it to see what all the other countries and competitions looked like. I was quite intimidated by all the videos of extremely good looking events and know Red Bull won’t settle for anything less,’ Vermaak explained. “The biggest challenge was trying to deliver a world class event in the space we were given. There is no rated rigging point over the stage so we decided to use the very light-weight, but also extremely potent Robe Robin100 LED Beams. Problem solved. We used all 24 over the stage to create very rich and powerful looking effects.’
Vermaak notes that the Sharpys worked perfectly on stage, even against the LED wall used as the stage backdrop. “In my opinion there is no fixture in the world that would have worked better and give such a perfect beam against the bright LED wall,’ he said.
Sound
FOH and monitor sound was mixed by Nardus de Lange. An Alcons LR16 line-array system was specified for the event. 6 x LR16 speakers were hung over 2 x BF362 base bins per side, with eight Alcons VR12 monitors on stage. The FOH console was a Yamaha M7.
Video
An LED video wall was used to create a city skyline built out of 124 6mm SMD indoor LED panels supplied by Pixel Displays.
The Red Bull Beat Battle started at 8pm and only ended at 4 o’clock the next morning… a sure sign of another thriving Red Bull event.
Tech Spec:
Lighting
24x Robe 100 LED Beams
12x Robe CitySkape 48
12x Clay Paky Sharpies
6x Philips Vari-Lite VLX Washes
6x Martin 600 Washes
6x Martin Mac700 Profiles
24x LedForce 18 LED Parcans
6x Atomic 3k Strobes
12x 2k Blonds
1x Avolites PowerCube
1x Avolites Tiger Touch
Sound:
Alcons 6 over 2 line-array system
8x Alcons VR12 speakers
M7 sound desk
Nexo PS10 system
Video:
3x Folsom Screen Pro II HD/SDI switchers
3x Mac Book Pro
124 6mm SMD indoor LED panels
4 x4 Seamless LCD wall
12 x 42inch Plasma Screens
