Adding smooth dynamics to Star Academy Balkans
17 may 2009
From Winter 2008 to Spring 2009, XLNT CyberHoist added smooth dynamics to Star Academy Balkans' choreography and set design. Based on Endemol's successful “Big Brother” and FremantleMedia's “American Idol”, Star Academy combines elements of a pop music talent contest and reality show with viewer voting. Contestants live together in The Academy's boarding-school setting under 24/7 camera scrutiny. Managed by a director and coached by various teachers, contestants work towards their weekly performance hoping to ultimately win a record deal and cash prize.
Star Academy Balkans offers young adults from various Balkan regions the chance to break through in their artistic careers. With contestants from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Macedonia the talent show is aired on 6 channels throughout the region.
In this first season, Emotion Production worked together with Production Manager Aleksandar Miljus, Production Designer Michelle Sarfati and Light Designers Jean Phillipe Bourdon and Miladen Cosic to create a talent competition involving breathtaking light and set changes.
Full compliance with the most stringent international safety standards makes XLNT CyberHoist the obvious choice for shows and events involving the movement of heavy objects and people.
Star Academy used XLNT CyberHoist 250 and CyberHoist 500 (7 of each) for smooth truss and set movement.
Star Academy Balkans' dazzling shows captivated audiences throughout the Balkan region with ultra dynamic lighting and set movement. An enormous circular LED video curtain, suspended above the stage, was raised and lowered numerous times with millimetre precision while performing contestants were lowered on a platform from within. An absolute pinnacle of stealth was displayed when 24 year old Igor Cukrov was lowered while playing a sleek black piano. Igor's platform remained suspended in mid-air while singing John Lennon's “Yesterday”. Upon his final note, Igor was finally lowered to an overwhelming applause.