Manfred “Vossi’ Voss, a German lighting designer, used 100 x Robe BMFL Spots to light the 2014 Ein Herz fur Kinder (A Heart for Children) show, dedicated to helping children living tough and challenging lives. It is a high profile charity fund-raiser show produced by Schwartzkopff TV staged at the new and swanky Tempelhof airport in Berlin, Germany. The show is broadcast on German national public service channel ZDF.

The Berlin-based PRO LIGHT Lichttechnik Vermietung provided the technical to the show. The BMFL Spot fixtures were supplied by Niclen. Sixty of the BMFL Spots were used to light the audience and 40 were blotched around the stage hanging on trusses in the roof. These were used for a variety of tasks, which included creating general lighting ambience and scenes as well as dramatic effects for the cameras and the live audience. The long list of artists featured for the special live performances included The Voice Kids, Norske Talenter star, Angelina Jordan, James Blunt, Andreas Gabalier, German musician Peter Murray and superstar Chris de Burgh.

Voss chose to use Robe’s BMFL because of its low weight of under 36kg, its incredible zoom range from 5˚ to 55° as well as it’s unbelievably bright light output. The lighting crew were highly impressed because the strikingly innovative BMFL offers many advantages over existing 1 500-Watt light-source class fixtures and is fast becoming a benchmark product in terms of the power versus weight ratio. They were ecstatic over the gobo projections combined with colour mixing. Due to the fixtures’ intensity there was no need for additional wash lighting for the audience backlighting in blue with the use of gobos.

Zoomed right in, the BMFL excelled in producing tight collimated beams, satisfying the current trend for those much-used beam effects popular with smaller fully optimised beam lights. All of this and much more makes the BMFL a flexible choice. The event’s lighting, using a GrandMA1 console, was operated by Frank Hofmann and Andreas Haslbeck. The set was designed by Hassler Made and the programme directed by Ladislaus Kiraly.

The event itself was able to raise over €16-million for the Ein Herz fur Kinder organisation.