“The up coming level”: The Voice Dominicana votes for grandMA3


 “The next level”: The Voice Dominicana votes for grandMA3

Dominican Republic – Producers of the initial ever edition of The Voice Dominicana wanted a superior influence manufacturing for the sequence which showcases some serious soaring star expertise, and questioned leading lighting designer Paulinho Lebrao from design and style observe FOH on board to generate an interesting extravaganza of color, movement, and electrical power with a vivid and adaptable lights style and design. All lights is currently being controlled by a total grandMA3 established up, with the console also programmed and operated by Paulinho for the collection.

The very first blind audition episodes were shot in June and the levels of competition now moves into the Struggle phases followed by the Knockouts, then the Are living Finals, with the Grand Finale at the close of November. Presently occupied with a whole timetable, for this task challenge-loving Paulinho even shoehorned some DoP (director of pictures) duties into his workflow in shut collaboration with Andre Batista.

The Voice Dominicana action is currently being filmed in ProCapital Studios, Santo Domingo, the premier Television set facility in the Dominican Republic. The display is created by ProCapital Movies and Ram Group Worldwide and the first episodes premiered in July 2021 by way of Telesistema. Brazil-based Paulinho had no hesitation in specifying a whole grandMA3 hardware and software package technique for lights management, comprising two grandMA3 consoles (key and backup), two grandMA3 processing unit XL and a grandMA3 4Port Node.

It is a busy show necessitating various dynamic and diverse lights appears to be and environments to be established below time strain, so he required the power, velocity, and adaptability of the grandMA3. Getting taken a sizeable chunk of his lockdown time to time to study and discover the full abilities of grandMA3, he grow to be an early adopter of grandMA3 program and subsequently starts employing it on exhibits and livestreams. For Paulinho, the console can take clearly show programming and shipping to “the next levels”.

The initially rounds of the competition featured roughly 120 going lights on the rig additionally LED fixtures and a handful of conventionals. By the Reside Ultimate shows, this will have expanded to 350, 90% of which will be LED resources which will give the principal essential and effects lighting as effectively as illuminating the phase, established and audience. All lighting, video and audio package for the sequence is supplied by BM Eventos.

The rig so significantly has provided some distinctive LED bars that consumed just one DMX universe just about every, and in total roughly 60 universes have been devoted to lighting and pixel-mappable fixtures. For some songs during the Blind Auditions, DMX was despatched immediate from the media server to the grandMA3 to bring about precise movie results, and for some others they utilised the grandMA3’s DMX merge input.
Paulinho loves a lot of grandMA3 characteristics which include the MultiTouch screens which he thinks tremendously accelerate programming sessions with the one particular or two finger commands, but on this unique demonstrate, he highlights the use of a single pretty straightforward but extremely handy aspect: the trackpad!

While it was not probable to have any focused remote stick to spotting systems, Paulinho required a rear followspot for some quantities, and he essential this in a spot wherever there was no house to set up a conventional human operated spot in a truss chair! At any time resourceful, he and the team experienced the thought of applying a Claypaky Axcor 300 Spot connected to an iPad and the lights community via the grandMA3’s Internet Remote, so 1 operator using the trackpad menu managed that fixture.

The thought “worked perfectly!” declared Paulinho, supplying him access to parameters like dimmer, colour and zoom from his cue list, leaving the operator to focus just on having the fixture’s movement precise.

Paulinho’s resourceful beginning point for lighting The Voice Dominicana has been Omar Marti’s established structure and the well known ‘Style Bible’ that informs the ‘base aesthetics’ of all intercontinental franchised variants of the unique Dutch show thought. Within these suggestions, he the natural way preferred to create his individual distinct visual touches. The Blind Auditions began rather lower essential in phrases of lighting with extra easy seems which slowly grew much more intricate and breathtaking as points progressed with all the creation visual departments ramping up.

As lights designer, he felt pretty related with the unique contestants, all of whom were talented and shooting for their desires. “For each song, there is a lot of emotion in the home, in addition all the visual consequences crafted about it, so that is a big responsibility as properly as just one of the most satisfying aspects of lighting this kind of demonstrate,” he suggests.

Operating alongside Paulinho at FOH on this task are assistant LD Nicholas Rafael, primarily based remotely in Brazil who normally takes care of the style, 3D modelling and pre-vis co-ordination. All the light reveals are created in advance in WYSIWYG in advance of being transferred to the console the working day ahead of the session begins recording and broadcasting on-the-floor in Santo Domingo.

The Voice Dominicana is directed for Tv set by Alberto Zayas with musical course by Henry Jimenez. The govt producers are Darius Alfred, Ariel Nina and Ramon Rodriguez Maxwell and the total producer is Angie Rodriguez. The winner will be disclosed in November.

MA Lighting’s distributor in the Dominican Republic is Wholestage Caribbean dependent in Santo Domingo.

photos: PicArt

 “The next level”: The Voice Dominicana votes for grandMA3 “The next level”: The Voice Dominicana votes for grandMA3

15th July 2021

By Harmony