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Ben Green and Invoke create Emmys Red Carpet looks with Chauvet

On the Red Carpet at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, the lighting design featured 124 Chauvet Professional fixtures supplied by 4Wall Entertainment. As one of the producers of the Red Carpet event, Barrett Hall of Invoke Entertainment collaborated with lighting director Ben Green and producers David Jacobi, Neal Roscoe, and Jamie Watana to create a design that worked well on camera.

Playing a key role were 96 OnAir Panel 2 IP65, full-spectrum LED soft lights. Lining the entire Red Carpet space, from the arrivals area on through the step and repeat, these 1x2 format white light units provided supportive light for the cameras. “The OnAir Panels stood out for us due to their clean black housing, onboard power supply, IP rating, and adjustable PWM settings”, says Green.

“For this project, having the PWM flexibility was notably important because of how many different cameras controlled by a wide range of different people needed to play well together. This was especially true for the high-speed E! ‘Glambot’ camera taping slow motion reels”, he adds.

Although the media walk and step and repeat lighting was impeccable, some of the more fun moments of the design took place in the arrivals area, a new space for the Emmy Awards this year, where nominees and A-list guests met with their teams before hitting the red carpet.

Creating a richly textured setting in the arrivals area were sixteen Rogue R2X Wash fixtures and eighteen Rogue R1 BeamWashes. “They were our primary workhorses in this area”, says Green. “While the R2X Washes provided static, warm ambient light, the R1 BW fixtures were spotted down to add a subtle roving spotlight feel that offered some excitement without being distracting.”

“This was a team effort”, he concludes. “So many people helped us, including John Cox (gaffer); Ron Murphy and Dennis Sisul (best boys); Ryan Tanker (programmer/lighting director); Drew DeCorleto and Matthew Johns (4Wall); Nick Vincenti (staging supervisor); our local 33 electricians; and Salt Productions, as the lead production company.”

(Photos: Chauvet Professional/Invoke Entertainment)

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