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Festive installations by The Projection Studio

Festive installations by The Projection Studio
Festive installations by The Projection Studio

The Projection Studio (TPS) has produced two festive installations in 2015 - at Windsor Castle and in the Welsh seaside town of Barry in Glamorgan. A humorous 10 minute large format video show - with seasonal artwork and an array of animated images like dancing penguins and Santa Claus - was beamed on to the front of the municipal library building in King Square, Barry, getting everyone vibed up for Christmas. The projection system was based on the previous year’s show with some modifications.

 

The biggest challenge was getting the projections around the large Christmas tree in the centre of King Square. Ross Ashton’s and his TPS team’s solution involved building a 10 metre staging/roofing system at the ‘back’ of the Square - provided and built by Sound Base from Cardiff - which enabled the six Panasonic DZ 21K projectors to be positioned where needed to cover the front of the library with the 50 metre wide images.

 

The projectors were run as three double-stacked pairs, with two stacks cross-shooting at 45 degree angles - to miss the tree - and the third pair at a slightly shallower angle. A D3 server was used for control and the necessary mapping onto the building, programmed by Dan Grey from QED, the projection hardware supplier.

 

Ashton’s storyboard was an action-packed show that ran three times on the evening, and was enjoyed by large crowds watching live and thousands more via internet sharing. A serious amount of 3D modelling and animation was required, undertaken by The Projection Studio’s Thierry Noyer and San Gun Kim, and sound artist Karen Monid was engaged to compile and edit the soundtrack. Sound Base supplied the audio system plus generators to power all the equipment.

 

For the second year running Projection Studio has also produced festive projections onto the central tower at Windsor Castle. The Castle’s central tower is 20 metres tall and 11 metres wide, and the image was projected via a single Panasonic PZ21K projector fitted with a portrait adaption kit, located in a disused office block opposite.

 

It was beaming through an optical glass panel - installed the year before to replace the original sash window - completely protecting the projector from external elements and offering a clear surface to shoot across to the Castle wall. The projector can be run off a single 13 Amp socket, so no special mains requirements of generators are needed.

 

Ross Ashton’s artwork for 2015 continued the theme of original stained glass windows at St George’s Chapel within the Castle’s grounds. Ashton had conducted a photo shoot in the Chapel to create material. The images were then edited and composited as animated video files by Paul Chatfield.

 

TPS’s on-site installation team was led by Karen Monid who also programmed the control system. The files were uploaded to a MiniMac server running Millumin software. The 10 minute show auto-started at dusk and ran as a looped file until midnight each evening.

 

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