Willowdale Seventh-day Adventist Church, a historic building in the North York neighbourhood of the same name, in Toronto, is an important meeting place for its community. Its main sanctuary features a pitched wooden ceiling with exposed beams and a balcony, while the back wall of the stage holds a large cross flanked by elevated panels.
The challenge was to replace a lighting system that had grown over the years one element at a time, without an overall plan. Since services are livestreamed, the new stage lighting also had to work on camera, with accurate colour temperatures and a look consistent with the video panels.
“What we heard from David Civera was that they'd done a few upgrades over the years. But it was, essentially, a piecemeal approach,”
Marc Snow, Innovation & Design Specialist at sparkAV.
Before installation, A.C. Americas held on-site demos at the church and hosted sparkAV and consultant Brad Dickson at its facility for full camera testing and fixture comparisons. Dickson, who spent decades as a lighting director for CBC and is now with Calibrated Technologies, provided the lighting plot and guidance on the stage instruments.
“To ensure we were able to achieve on-camera colour accuracy, we evaluated the EclProfile CT+HP fixtures on camera using HS Scope to measure them. They gave us a good range of colour temperatures and the control to calibrate them,”
Marc Snow, Innovation & Design Specialist at sparkAV.
The ten EclProfile CT+HP, positioned well outside the audience's sightlines, act as the main stage fixtures. Designed for longer throws and higher rigging positions, the fixture pairs a 450 W six-colour LED engine with Spektra OS for accurate colour temperature reproduction.
“That was my goal, to keep them out of sight as much as possible, we're very happy with the CT+ HPs. The 450 Watt engine really gave us a lot of bang for the buck.”
Marc Snow, Innovation & Design Specialist at sparkAV.
The new house lights were set to match the colour temperature of the EclProfile CT+HP and the rest of the lighting in the church. The whole system runs from a virtual desk, and the church's own engineers programmed the control of the stage, LED accent and house lighting, with the house lights on a separate DMX universe.
“Working with A.C. Americas, Brad Dickson, and sparkAV transformed our project and far exceeded our expectations, we now have church members requesting new lighting profiles and effects to match events and increase production value.”
David Civera, Communications Leader at Willowdale Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The project was headed by sparkAV, with Ken Kruse as Manager of Projects, James Nickerson as Manager of Field Operations and Marc Snow as Innovation & Design Specialist, and with Brad Dickson of Calibrated Technologies as consultant. The fixtures were supplied by A.C. Americas, PROLIGHTS' distributor in North America.
From three pipes above the congregation, the ten EclProfile CT+HP proved the ideal choice to solve the challenge and light the Willowdale stage with colour temperatures calibrated for those in the pews and those watching the livestream, answering the needs of a venue where light has to support the live service and deliver accurate colour on camera.
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