Lighting design
How to Make Gravy: Live in Concert
The music of How to Make Gravy moved from film to the HOTA stage. Krank'd designed the lighting for the AACTA Festival concert featuring Meg Washington, Brendan Maclean, Beddy Rays and Paul Kelly.
Explore the production- When
- 8 February 2025
- Where
- Outdoor Stage, HOTA, Gold Coast
The full stage beneath blue light and the concert title.
A film soundtrack becomes a live concert
How to Make Gravy: Live in Concert brought the music of the BINGE Original film to HOTA on 8 February 2025 as part of AACTA Festival. Meg Washington led the programme, joined by Brendan Maclean, Beddy Rays and special guests, with Richard Wilkins hosting the evening.
Paul Kelly appeared to perform the song that inspired the film. The concert connected the screen adaptation with its musical origins, bringing its themes of family, separation and reconciliation into a shared live performance on the Gold Coast.
Lighting that followed the individual performances
Krank'd delivered the full lighting design for the concert. The visual approach used warmth and changes in intensity to support the emotional character of the songs, while allowing each performer to hold the stage in their own way.
HOTA's Outdoor Stage provided the scale of a festival venue, but much of the material called for a closer, more personal focus. The design moved between those two settings within the same show: the collective energy of a live concert and the quieter storytelling of the film's music.
The following year, Krank'd returned to AACTA Festival to design lighting for panel discussions, continuing the relationship across a different part of the screen-culture programme.
