Lighting designer Al Gurdon specified nearly 1,900 Chroma-Q LED fixtures to provide a stunning lighting and video effects wall forming the centrepiece of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, Europe’s largest non-sport television production.
For this year’s event, Al wanted a flexible system with which he could create a sufficient variety of visual moods and textures to underpin the tones of the musical performances. With the theme for this year’s show being “Share the Moment”, a key element was the ability to include the audience with whatever happened onstage, as part of the televised experience.
Abandoning high-resolution video elements in the set this year, Al instead created a totally immersive low-resolution lighting and video environment designed to be used in an architectural way, rather than to provide literal images. A key component of the design was an array of nearly 1,900 Chroma-Q LED fixtures providing the main layer.
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