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Los Angeles, January 24,
2008
The show may have been called “Clash of the Choirs”
but it was all sweet music with the grandMA controlling the lighting
for the new NBC series. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of
the grandMA in North America.
“Clash of the Choirs” featured five music
celebrities -- Nick Lachey, Patti LaBelle, Blake Shelton, Michael
Bolton and Kelly Rowland -- who assembled amateur choirs in their
hometowns. The choirs performed on four consecutive nights in the week
leading up to Christmas with viewers eliminating groups as the nights
wore on. Lachey’s Cincinnati-based choir emerged the winner
taking home $250,000 for the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Lighting designer Greg Brunton was challenged to light more than 40
songs during the course of the shows. “We knew what songs
would be performed from night to night only one hour before the show
because we didn’t know which choirs would be moving
on,” he explains. “So we had to reformat cues each
night. Fortunately, the grandMA was so versatile that we were able to
do that. We didn’t have to work in a linear fashion like
other consoles; we could jump from song to song very easily and
quickly. And redoing a string of cues was easy, too.”
After years of working on other boards, Brunton says he’s
“grown very comfortable with the grandMA. The success of any
board lies with the programmer, and I have found grandMA programmers
with the level of skills I’m used to."
"Everyone knows who Greg Brunton is. His career has spanned many
technology paradigms and his opinions have real weight. The fact that
the grandma suites his requirements shows us that we are on the right
track. We have always felt that the grandMA was the ideal console for
TV, and handles 'on the fly' situations better than any other
platform," comments A.C.T Lighting's President and CEO, Bob Gordon.
Dirk Op't Eynde was the programmer for Clash of the Choirs.
Brunton is now working on the new primetime “Million Dollar
Password” game show for CBS on which he’s also
employing
the grandMA.
MA Lighting is
exclusively distributed by A.C.T Lighting.
A leading importer and distributor of lighting products, A.C.T
Lighting, Inc. strives to identify future trends and cutting-edge
products, and stock, sell and support their inventory. The company
provides superior customer service and value for money to all of its
clients.
For more information call 818-707-0884.
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