Mega Boogie provided sound and lighting for the “Save The Giants with Ronan Keating” fine dining and music event, and “Marine Day Beach Party”, both located at Bunga Raya Island Resort and Spa, in Sabah. These events were the culmination of “Marine Awareness Month” [MAM], which celebrated significant milestones in marine biology achieved by the resort’s Marine Ecology Research Centre [MERC].
The beach
The stage for the “Marine Day Beach Party” was on a barge.
Mega Boogie’s crew arrived here on April 14th, for the dinner event on the 21st and the Marine Day Beach Party on the 22nd. The crew slept each night on the barge with the equipment.
“We go to sleep about 2.00am, after packing everything away, and we’re awake before 7.00am because it’s getting hot”, someone said.
“Except for [Lighting Engineer] Richard Heng,” said photographer Nasier Lee. “He stays up all night making patterns with the lights, and sleeps as I am waking up.”
Richard said he would have 4 Clay Paky Sharpys set up for the beach party.
By April 20th, the crew were as dark as rainforest trees and weather beaten, but otherwise unbeaten!
Soundman Kevin Chang said the trussing spanned 60 feet on the inside, 30 deep and 80 feet high. The side extensions took it out another 20 feet each side.
Kevin said, “There are two line arrays of JBL Vertec 4889s, six per side, and two of 4888s, five per side.”
The barge swayed to the waves, I heard thunder out to sea. It had been a week of setting up and dismantling, testing and packing away, everyone prey to the weather’s whimsy.
Poolside
Richard Heng said, “At the dining event, we are using 8 Clay Paky Sharpys moving lights. Poolside there will be 12 Pearl River XL Beam 300s.
“The resort’s colour scheme is blue and green so we’ll match that, and we’ve got two big Martin Mac 3 profiles to put patterns in the trees.”
Richard said he’d got a new set-up for Mega Boogie’s video projection, like an American Idol effect: the shimmering pool in front, a projector screen at the back, and light beams aimed skywards and fanning out.
Two projector screens, plus EIKI LCD Projectors 15,000 ANSI Lumens were in use.
Looking good with another day to go.
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