Event Safety Insights Issue One | Fall 2016 | Page 41

The scenery hung for the show prohibited any
rear spot positions. Ford had seen the demos
and felt the new product could solve his problem.
The two-month run, “provided real time feedback, resulting in the engineering of a final
production model which we debuted at LDI
2015,” concludes Conti.

Madonna’s Rebel Heart was the first to take the
GC Followspot on tour, as the production was
seeking to get people out of the air above the
stage. The benefits were immediately apparent
for show production and design. After all was
said-and-done, the GC system cut 12,000 lbs.
out of the rig, with quicker load in and out times
resulting. LD Joshua Hutchings had this to say,
“The spots not only increased our operators’
safety, it increased their accuracy as well.”
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