Formative supplies Cassper Nyovest
Published: MEA
SOUTH AFRICA: Recording artist and record producer Cassper Nyovest turned to design company Formative to provide full creative direction, production and content design, show and technical production for his #fillupthedome show at Johannesburg’s Ticketpro Dome. When it came to lighting and video control, the company turned to MA Lighting’s grandMA2.
Working closely with various companies in the Gearhouse South Africa Group, Formative ran two media servers and two grandMA2 full-size consoles, with an additional grandMA2 full-size at ‘dimmer beach’ as well as four MA NPU (Network Processing Unit). It ran Art-Net from the media servers into grandMA2 for pixel mapping and split timecode between all the systems for full redundancy. There was also a four-camera HD IMAG system which was used to captured the feeds and integrate them into the performances via the media server.
The rig was setup in MA 3D via Vectorworks on an extremely high-spec PC. This enabled Formative to put the entire show into the desk ahead of time, assess how the different elements worked together, move fixtures around as needed and then send a final plot off for prep. This preparation reportedly made work on site significantly easier for the crew.
‘It could not have turned out better, we were all extremely happy with the results and from what we hear so were the audience,’ concluded Formative’s creative director Grant Orchard.