Maoming China-Madam Xian legend television base-Dynamic Sphere
For the Madam Xian Legend Television Base in Maoming, the challenge was to create a versatile and visually striking central feature for various filming scenarios and public displays. Our innovative lighting solution incorporated a prominent motorized Dynamic Sphere. This monumental LED sphere, engineered with a silent and robust lifting system, serves as a captivating focal point capable of dramatic transformation. It can be precisely lowered to stage level for immersive ground-level interactions or elevated high into the performance space to command attention as a breathtaking overhead canopy.
This dynamic adjustability allows the sphere to project intricate historical patterns, vivid abstract animations, or ambient lighting effects from multiple vantage points, perfectly suiting diverse production needs. Its seamless vertical movement, combined with its dynamic visual capabilities, enables fluid transitions between different moods and settings, providing filmmakers with a flexible and multi-dimensional tool for storytelling. The integration of this height-adjustable sphere significantly enhanced the base's production value, offering an ever-changing and visually rich environment that deeply immerses both filmmakers and visitors.
Location
Maoming China
Product
Dynamic Sphere
◉ Project Background
Supporting Cultural Expression of Cultural Tourism Performing Arts Base
The 2021 upgrading project of song and dance performances at the Xian Furen Legend Filming Base was a core initiative for the base to activate historical and cultural resources and build a benchmark for the integration of culture and tourism. Open to tourists, cultural scholars, and study tour groups, it aimed to create an immersive song and dance feast that combines historical depth, artistic appeal, and alignment with the core of "Xian Furen Culture". As the core carriers, the main performance stage and scenario-based viewing area required more than basic performing arts lighting. They needed to restore the historical scenes of Xian Furen's era and convey the cultural spirit of "ethnic unity" through light and shadow language, serving as a bridge connecting historical legends with the audience's emotional resonance.
After evaluating multiple lighting suppliers with cultural tourism performing arts experience, the base team highly recognized FENG-YI's ability to adapt to cultural scenarios, present stage art effects, and execute large-scale performing arts projects. To achieve the goal of "light and shadow empowering historical expression", the base decided to cooperate with FENG-YI, introducing its core stage lighting equipment to help the song and dance performances create a benchmark immersive cultural tourism experience.
◉ Project Challenges
Lighting Adaptation Difficulties in Cultural Tourism Performing Arts Scenarios
▪ The Challenge of Matching Lighting with Historical Culture
Centered on Xian Furen's historical deeds of "loving the country and the people, and promoting ethnic unity", the project required lighting to interpret core cultural elements such as "ancient Yue customs", "heroic spirit of women", and "peaceful integration".
The primary challenge was to avoid the exaggerated light and shadow mode of modern performing arts, and instead use lighting techniques that fit the historical context to truthfully and artistically express Xian Furen's spiritual core and historical background.
The primary challenge was to avoid the exaggerated light and shadow mode of modern performing arts, and instead use lighting techniques that fit the historical context to truthfully and artistically express Xian Furen's spiritual core and historical background.
▪ The Difficulty of Coordinating Lighting Across Multiple Scenarios
The song and dance performance covered multiple chapters including "Origin of Hometown", "Mustering Troops on the Battlefield", "Ethnic Unity", and "Eternal Praise", each with distinctly different lighting needs: the hometown scene required warm and soft light to outline the atmosphere of life; the battlefield chapter needed sharp light and shadow to create a magnificent atmosphere; the integration scene demanded layered light to convey a sense of harmony; the praise chapter required solemn light to foster reverence.
Meeting the needs of each chapter while achieving coherent connection between lighting style and historical narrative logic posed high requirements for lighting combination and scene switching.
Meeting the needs of each chapter while achieving coherent connection between lighting style and historical narrative logic posed high requirements for lighting combination and scene switching.
▪ Obstacles in Linking Lighting with Live-Action Performing Arts
The performance was carried out based on the live-action scenes of the filming base, requiring a balance between "historical restoration" and "viewing experience"—lighting had to cooperate with live-action props to restore the texture of scenes such as ancient Yue architecture and battlefields, while ensuring visual effects from different viewing positions; it needed to enhance the actors' physical expression through light and shadow, while avoiding harsh light interfering with the audience's immersive experience.
Meanwhile, the light transition between outdoor and indoor scenes, and the lighting adaptation for day and night performances were quite challenging. Ensuring that lighting could serve the historical narrative while enhancing the appreciation of the performance became a key challenge.
Meanwhile, the light transition between outdoor and indoor scenes, and the lighting adaptation for day and night performances were quite challenging. Ensuring that lighting could serve the historical narrative while enhancing the appreciation of the performance became a key challenge.
◉ Solution
Customized Lighting Service System for Cultural Tourism Performing Arts
Historical Culture-Centered Lighting Equipment Combination
Tailored to the characteristics of the performance, FENG-YI developed a cultural-themed lighting solution featuring coordinated multi-equipment deployment:
▪ Core Equipment Customization: Provided focused spotlights, ambient soft lights, and special effect light projectors. Focused spotlights accurately depicted the actors' expressions and movement details, highlighting the artistic tension of the song and dance performance; soft lights created a historical atmosphere for scenes like the hometown and integration; special effect light projectors restored scene images such as ancient battlefield smoke and ritual fire through light projection, echoing the historical narrative.
▪ Reconstruction of Historical Elements with Light and Shadow: Deeply integrated lighting with the song and dance plot—in the hometown chapter, warm light gradients simulated dawn and dusk, matching folk dances to show the life scenes of ancient Yue ancestors; in the battlefield chapter, light and shadow contrast and dynamic switching enhanced the magnificent momentum of horse-riding dances and weapon dances; in the integration chapter, multi-colored light intertwined to symbolize the integration of different ethnic cultures; in the praise chapter, top light and side light combined to highlight the solemnity of Xian Furen's image.
▪ Equipment Performance Optimization: All lighting equipment adopted anti-glare design to avoid mutual interference between outdoor strong light and stage lighting; lighting switching responded quickly and noiselessly, ensuring seamless coordination of "scene transition-light variation-music connection" to adapt to the process needs of live-action performing arts.
◉ Project Implementation
Culture-Focused Collaboration Ensuring Delivery
01. Alignment with Historical Culture in Scheme Design
FENG-YI invited Xian Furen cultural research scholars and performance directors to participate in the lighting scheme review, focusing on lighting tone, light and shadow texture, and matching degree with historical scenes.
For example, based on scholars' suggestions, the main color of light for the ancient Yue scene was adjusted to warm green close to natural plants, avoiding overly modern cool tones; a warm light effect simulating "pine torches" was customized for ritual scenes, better fitting the characteristics of ancient sacrificial rituals; in the ethnic integration chapter, representative colors of various ethnic traditional costumes were used as auxiliary lighting colors to strengthen cultural symbol expression.
02. Live-Action Adaptation Installation Enhancing Implementation Efficiency
Adopting modular pre-installation design, lighting control components and circuits were pre-debugged at the factory.
On-site work only involved precise installation according to the base's architectural structure and vegetation distribution, significantly shortening the construction period. Meanwhile, concealed brackets and waterproof treatment were used to integrate equipment into live-action elements such as ancient trees and antique buildings, ensuring lighting effects without damaging the visual integrity of historical scenes.
03. Plot-Based Debugging Refining Details
Multiple rounds of make-up rehearsals and debugging were conducted with the performance team before the official show. The technical team recorded the coordination details between lighting and dance movements, music rhythm, and line emotions in each chapter, including the timing of light focusing when actors appeared, the distribution of light and shadow layers in group dance segments, and the light atmosphere rendering in monologue scenes.
Issues such as "disconnection between light and shadow and plot rhythm" and "insufficient light highlighting of specific movements" identified during debugging were addressed by real-time parameter adjustments, achieving deep integration of lighting and performance expression.
◉ Project Highlights
Light and Shadow Empowering Cultural Tourism Performing Arts Expression
Lighting Endowing Historical Narrative with Artistic Vitality
Multi-type lighting equipment created multiple iconic performance scenes: in the hometown chapter, soft light projected dappled shadows through real tree leaves, matching rice-planting and weaving dances to show the life of ancient Yue ancestors; in the battlefield chapter, special effect light projectors cast galloping horse silhouettes on the background wall, and focused spotlights followed the lead dancer's movements, enhancing the heroic momentum of "mustering troops"; in the integration chapter, different colored lights lit up with the appearance of each ethnic dance, eventually interweaving into warm white light, symbolizing the concept of "one family under heaven"; at the end of the praise chapter, top light slowly focused on the group dance formation shaped like Xian Furen's statue, creating a solemn atmosphere of "eternal remembrance".
Organic Integration of Multi-Chapter Lighting
Through a unified control system, coherent connection of lighting across chapters was achieved: from the warm and soft light of the hometown to the sharp light and shadow of the battlefield, then to the colorful interweaving of integration, and finally to the solemn brightness of praise, the light changes formed a complete narrative logic with the plot progression; for day and night performances, lighting could automatically adapt to outdoor light intensity—adding side light during the day to supplement brightness and highlight performance details; strengthening light and shadow contrast at night to create a more immersive scene atmosphere, ensuring consistent performance quality at different times.
Cultural Tourism Demand-Focused Collaboration Model
The project established a cooperation mechanism covering in-depth cultural demand communication, joint scheme review, and on-site joint debugging.
FENG-YI's waterproof, anti-glare, and fast-response lighting equipment, which met the needs of live-action performing arts, not only accurately matched the artistic expression of the song and dance performance but also perfectly echoed the historical connotation of Xian Furen Culture, winning high recognition from cultural scholars, the director team, and tourists.
◉ Project Achievements
Light and Shadow Assisting Cultural Tourism Performing Arts Brand Upgrading
After the upgrade, the song and dance performance at the Xian Furen Legend Filming Base became a core cultural tourism check-in project in the region, with a significant increase in tourist reception and praise rates, and was repeatedly included in local cultural tourism recommendation lists. The base manager stated: "FENG-YI's lighting design has 'brought' historical stories to life. The cooperation between lighting and song and dance not only restores Xian Furen's legendary experience but also allows tourists to truly feel her spiritual strength, greatly enhancing our cultural tourism competitiveness."
The performance has since received multiple cultural inspection groups and study tour teams, with relevant performance cases reported on cultural tourism industry platforms—all affirming the core role of lighting in "visual expression of historical culture". This project further consolidated FENG-YI's advantageous position in the cultural tourism performing arts lighting service field and accumulated valuable experience in customized services for "historical themes + live-action performances".
◉ Sustained Services
Building the Foundation for Long-Term Cultural Tourism Cooperation
After the project was completed, FENG-YI provided in-depth follow-up services to the filming base:
• Provision of daily lighting equipment maintenance guides and operation training for the performance team;
• Lighting scheme upgrade support for plot updates and seasonal theme adjustments of the song and dance performance;
• Customized lighting solutions for new historical scene performance projects of the base.
Meanwhile, FENG-YI reached a long-term cooperation intention with the base, planning to jointly develop a new "lighting + interactive experience" cultural tourism performance model, helping the base continuously activate historical and cultural resources through light and shadow technology.
◉ Project Insights
Core Logic of Lighting Services for Cultural Tourism Performing Arts
▪ Cultural alignment is the prerequisite
In-depth research on historical and cultural backgrounds, regional characteristics, and performance themes is the foundation for creating suitable lighting, and all lighting designs should serve the accurate expression of cultural connotations;
▪ Narrative coordination is the guarantee
Familiarity with the plot's sequence and transitions, adjusting lighting effects according to chapter rhythm, character emotions, and scene changes to ensure lighting can become the "second language" of plot expression;
▪ Live-action adaptation is the key
Fully considering the live-action environment, viewing experience, and operation needs of cultural tourism performing arts, achieving the unity of "historical restoration-artistic presentation-tourist experience" through equipment optimization and installation adaptation.
◉ Conclusion
Light and Shadow Shaping Cultural Resonance of Cultural Tourism Performing Arts
The cooperation in the Xian Furen Legend Filming Base project is a successful practice of FENG-YI in the lighting service field for historical-themed cultural tourism performing arts. It demonstrates that FENG-YI not only has professional lighting equipment supply capabilities but also can deeply understand the core demand of the cultural tourism industry for "shaping tourism with culture and highlighting culture through tourism", injecting vivid artistic vitality into historical culture with light and shadow technology.
In the future, FENG-YI will continue to uphold the concept of "light and shadow inheriting culture", conduct in-depth research on lighting needs of cultural tourism performances of different regions and themes, continuously optimize equipment performance and service systems, and provide high-quality lighting solutions for more historical and cultural bases and live-action performance projects. With light and shadow as the medium, it will help cultural tourism brands build a bridge between history and the present, making cultural stories more appealing.
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