Martin supplies lighting for The Big Mission

Game shows just aren’t what they used to be and Denmark’s Den Store Mission (The Big Mission) just may take the prize for, well...best prize. The Big Mission is already generating a lot of interest in Scandinavia with the winner of the competition earning a trip into space aboard the first commercial spacecraft.

The Big Mission airs on TV2 in Denmark beginning in October and is being billed as a competition whose lucky winner will be crowned “First Dane in space”.

Martin’s local distributor, Martin Danmark, supplied MAC moving heads including MiniMACs, MX and PAL scanners and a TrackPod followspot system to TV2 studios in Copenhagen. The luminaires were spread across a host of stages and incorporated into the lighting scheme at all levels of the show. Par Cans were also used in the lighting scheme. Lighting Designer for The Big Mission is Torben Lendorph with lighting programming completed by Thomas Brockmann.

The rights to the show have been sold to Sweden (TV4), Germany (Tresor), Australia (Network Seven) and others. First presented more than a year ago, The Big Mission was developed by TV2 and Jarowskij Danmark A/S with input from industry experts such as space veteran Buzz Aldrin.

The show consists of several “levels,” each level presenting a unique challenge in skills relevant to astronaut training (i.e. Level 1 = knowledge, Level 2 = physical skills, Level 3 = teamwork, Level 4 = mental strength). Contestants are eliminated over the course of several half-hour shows until The Finals in which 10 contestants remain. Much in the same style as the wildly popular Survivor show, contestants will be eliminated one by one until a final winner remains. The final elimination process will include a trip to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center in the USA, as well as authentic tests previously used to train astronauts.

The winner will become an instant national hero and join the elite group of space travelers. Jarowskij and TV2 have signed an agreement with Space Adventures, guaranteeing several seats on their first missions onboard the Space Cruiser. The winner will travel to the official astronaut altitude of 100 kilometers, high enough to view oceans and continents and to experience weightlessness.