Miss USSR UK 2019

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LIGHT DESIGN DELIVERS SPECTACULAR PRODUCTION FOR MISS USSR UK 2019

Light Design supplies a truly beautiful video, lighting, audio and décor production for MISS USSR UK at Hilton Park Lane Hotel, London.

Through an existing client’s referral, Light Design was highly recommended, to MISS USSR UK CEO Julia Titova, to deliver the production for MISS USSR UK 2019.

Following a production briefing, Terry Lewsey, Light Design’s Senior Project Manager and company owner, set about working a design and specification that would deliver the core aims of this project. The show which featured GRAMMY Award winning composer Dave Yaden performing live on piano, X Factor star Irina Dedyuk singing as well as being the Host for the evening. Other performers consisted of Russian singer and actress, Anastasia Stotskaya, soloist Tony Moore, Boney M Singer and Sheila Bonnick. The night also had speeches and introductions throughout the evening for this formal fully seated dinner function, all having individual production requirements for this fashion themed beauty pageant. With all the complex aspects being taken in consideration, specifically the importance of key front lighting to work for the fashion catwalk, Light

Design set about building a 3D model to present to its clients gaining their trust and showing them its vision.

During the design process Terry Lewsey from Light Design in the role of Senior Project Manager worked through several designs and redesigns with the MISS USSR UK core team comprising of Project Manager and International Producer Izabelle Urumyants, Creative Producer and Show Host Irina Dedyuk, Show Caller Olga Kravchenko, and CEO and Owner Julia Titova to find a suitable production specification to fit both the high expectations of the show, suitability for such an iconic venue, whilst keeping the show within budget.

The final agreed specification and design centred around a T shaped catwalk stage 8m by 4m with a 2m by 5m catwalk extension full carpeted and draped by event décor company Main Event Productions. Stage Lighting and Video design consisted of an impressive line-up of industry standard brands of fixtures and control equipment. The video element

of the show operated by Media Server Operator, Phil Blue, consisted of a 5.76mm by 3.45m main back screen all using our 6mm High Resolution black faced LED screen panels. Video control and processing consisting of 2 Green Hippo Amba Plus V4 media servers fitted with HD-SDI capture cards, Novastar MCTRL 660 processing with Barco Image Pro2 scalers. The whole show was run with live and backup servers scaling and processing at every point, all with Cat6 high speed data looms to facilitate all the necessary in and outputs required for the shows video requirements and live HD camera feeds which was operated by Light Design Video Technician and Cameraman, Michael Yetton.

Lewsey designed the lighting rig and pre-vis designs which were all drawn up and rendered in wysiwyg R42. The whole show was ready to go before we arrived on site with only position movements and minor changes being made on the day by LD and operator, Aziz Adilkhodjaev. Inhouse rigging company Production Plus provided a slick mini-beam trussing solution, for the room wash and video wall trusses.

Light Design provided all the necessary lighting for the show, consisting predominantly of Robe and Claypaky fixtures with 16 Robe Led Wash 600s, 12 Robe Pointes, 4 Claypaky Alphaspot 1500HPEs, working their magic for the room wash and stage based effects. A total of 12 Prolight Studio Cob FC were dedicated to lighting the stage, giving the correct light levels and colour temperature required for the photographic and video elements needed to light the performers and contestants. Additionally, 12 Chauvet Professional WELL fit Uplighters were also placed strategically around the room to light up key features of this stunning grand ballroom, to good effect, 2 Look Solution Unique MK2 Hazers gave the room a nice dynamic for the opening walk in look.

Finally, control and power consisted of an ChamSys MQ500 running as

main LX desk with ChamSys MQ80 as a live LX back up all expertly operated by Adilkhodjaev who was showcasing the MQ500 abilities as a versatile desk for both live and corporate production environments. Finally the show was all powered by a SES 72way distro with Chauvet Net-X II and ProPlex data distribution racks managing the lighting processing.

For the very specific audio requirements for this show with its complex mixture of a live pianist, singers and hosts with fast stage change arounds, Light Design contacted LCAV Productions who it had worked with previously on several occasions on corporate shows. Lloyds Cornish from LCAV, having previously worked at the Hilton on Park Lane, recommended a d&b audiotechnik sound system consisting of Lab Gruppen IPD2400 Amplifiers with 4 d&b Y7Ps, 6 d&b T10s and 6 d&b B6s all routed via a Yamaha QL1 16 Channel Digital Sound Desk. A mixture of Sennheiser Wireless Handheld and Wired Mics ran the show which all performed perfectly and without a hitch during the show.

On the evening, the crown found its queen, and 18-year old Anhelina Chobanyan, representing Armenia, became the winner of MISS USSR 2019.

Light Design team along with MISS USSR were delighted with the finished overall production, CEO Julia Titova said: “ Terry I’m so glad we chose to work with you and Light Design on this production; you and your team were amazing, so professional. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. We can’t thank you enough, it looked amazing. We are so happy with what you did for us.” TPi Photos: Ash Youd www.missussr.co.uk www.lightdesignltd.co.uk www.lc-av.co.uk