LOVE OKC STUDENT CONFERENCE DESIGN
"The design for LOVE OKC Student Conference
started where everything within our organization and church starts,
vision. The whole vision of this
conference is to be an example of God’s light to this world through students
and their hands. LOVE OKC Student
Conference is the combination of mission work and passionate worship (pouring
out love and being filled up with the Holy Spirit)
We always
want to start our conference off with a distinct message and vision for the
week through an opener. This year we
decided to use a special from our friends at Church On The Move called “There
is a Light.” Video
In the
planning of the opener, the idea of light “exploding” from a central area kept
coming up. Ideas of something that generated the light, ideas of reflecting
light, etc. At that point, the example
of a Miranda Lambert’s Concert came up from Bandit Lites Instagram, mirror
balls being hit from all directions with spots.
I then had multiple conversations with Steve and Pete at Integrity
Lighting regarding equipment needed to pull of this special moment at the
beginning of our conference. One thing
that kept coming up was how to spend the budget wisely. I never want to spend money on fixtures/lights
that we are only going to get one use out of in a weeklong conference. Therefore we came up with a rig of 24 Martin
MH3’s to go along with their 48” Mirror Ball, allowing us to get a tight beam
for spotting the Mirror ball and also supplying another dimension of beam to
our stage set.
The plan
the whole time was to light the Mirror ball from all directions, upstage floor,
all stage trusses, front side wings, and front wash bar(Thus needing 24 of
them). This made reusing the fixtures
for other moments in the experience hard.
So after load in we decided to test some things out. We set the ball in the middle of our room,
put a few of the fixtures on the stage floor and shot them at the ball. I figured out that if I aimed the beams on
the outside of the ball, it would reflect 150° - 170° off the mirror ball. From there we decided to use all the fixtures
behind the mirror ball, allowing us to use the fixtures alongside the rest of
our backlit set. Having the sharpy
style/tight beam fixture allowed us to hit the ball without any bleed over, and
also allowed use to adjust the look of the beams that were being
reflected. The tighter the fixture, the
tighter the reflected beam.
At the end of the conference we wanted to end with a dance party to celebrate all that had happened that week. Our creative team put together a video of before and after pictures of the house that were painted during the week. We wanted to create a fun “Club” / “DJ” feel environment with the song “The Nights” by Avicii. We consulted again with Integrity and landed on the idea of using 4 Antari W715 Fog Jets to simulate the dynamic of CO2 jets, with the combination of the Mirror ball, the Martin MH3’s and the Antari Jets, the Experiences at LOVE OKC Student Conference are still being talked about among our church today."
