By our June 25th tech meeting we knew it was a go and we were excited to be coming back.” “Then we sat at home like everyone else in the industry until we got a call in early June about possibly coming back for one city. “We were all ready to shoot when the producers called us in and announced they were postponing the show as a health measure so we immediately started loading out that night,” recalled Motts, now in his eighth year with the show. Lighting was under the capable hands of two long-time industry pros and Warrior lighting veterans, Adam Biggs (lighting design) and Ed Motts (lighting direction). Delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show eventually headed into production again in July with a crew happy to be back to work and a number of health measures to abide by. On March 12, Season 12 filming of NBC’s primetime series American Ninja Warrior was postponed in the middle of production in Los Angeles, and just one day before the reality competition was set to get underway beneath an Elation lighting rig with Obsidian control system.
The current conventional front lighting fixtures were replace with LED fixtures, new LED pars and battens were installed above the stage, while a small number of existing LED fixtures were repurposed and integrated into a new DMX control system, which Thomas programmed to be easily operated by the church’s volunteer tech team. In turn, Christopher brought in lighting designer and regular collaborator Thomas Griffin of Lti Productions.Īfter visiting the church and discussing with leadership what they were looking to achieve from their lighting, Thomas designed and specified a new system.
They brought in Christopher Watts of Watts Technology to advise on a cost effective, efficient and effective solution to add creativity to their stage lighting and also improve the quality of their online broadcasts. However, as they experimented with filming their worship and teaching in their auditorium, they realized that the lighting setup, while adequate for those attending in person, was limiting the quality of their video recordings. One of the industry’s most popular PC-based controllers for well over a decade, LightJockey 2 offers lighting designers greater flexibility, spontaneity and ease of use in a user-focused control package.Like most religious congregations around the world, Essential Church have made online services a major priority this year. LightJockey 2 is a flexible, easy-to-use Windows-based controller utilizing a USB to DMX Interface.
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