The end of 2014 saw also the end of the fourth season of the casting show The Voice of Germany. Equipment from Movecat supported by stage equipment specialist Stage Kinetik played a key role by providing for movement in the show.
The Voice of Germany is a German casting show that has been running annually since November 2011 on two channels: ProSieben and SAT.1. It is based on The Voice format inaugurated in the Netherlands at the end of 2010 with a show entitled The Voice of Holland. From its first season onwards, the production has been one of the most watched shows on ProSieben and SAT.1.
Responsible for the set, lighting design and technical implementation of the final production were, respectively, stage architect Per-Arne Jansen of Wieder Design, Manuel da Costa and Guido Wydra of Stage Kinetik. One of the highlights of the stage set was a series of motor-driven rectangular truss structures of different sizes to which both moving heads and LED lighting instruments from Schick-Schnack were attached. Four of these concentric truss rectangles were flown on each side of the stage. Around 20 different stage images as well as dynamic scene changes had been programmed for the structures and were implemented in the course of the show.
For each of the mobile truss rectangles three hoists were provided, which, due to the different sizes of the structures, had to be capable of handling loads ranging from 150 to 300 kilograms. For the purpose, eighteen VMK-S 500-24 motors from Movecat were employed as well as two additional VMK-S 250-33 motors, also from Movecat, for the positioning of a motor-driven LED panel designed to effect modifications to the decoration and backline. The hoisting height within the studio came to around eleven metres.
“We controlled the rectangular truss structures using an Expert-T II combined with a Master NDB and four additional NDBs from the Movecat I-Motion series,” recalls Guido Wydra of Stage Kinetik. “This solution functioned marvellously, giving us the requisite degree of flexibility as well as the freedom to create ever-new, unfailingly impressive and aesthetically satisfying stage images.”
Caption: Casting show The Voice of Germany (Photo: Think Abele, may be reproduced freely provided source is named)
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