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CPL helps Arcadia morph into Bristol

CPL helps Arcadia morph into Bristol

Arcadia’s giant fire-breathing spider landed in the Queen’s Square in Bristol and unleashed the new “Metamorphosis” show, complete with three mini-spiders, Lords of Lightening, mixed-media and visual extravaganza with performer and DJ line up for two nights - enjoyed by over 20,000 people.

 

Working with Arcadia’s technical production manager Tim Smith, Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) again supplied projection equipment and crew. The previous time had been at the 2015 Glastonbury Festival. The CPL team was led by Richard Burrow.

 

Burrow and his CPL crew of Sam Starkey and George Oakey arrived on site a week ahead of the shows to help co-ordinate all the projection elements. They collaborated with Video Illusions, whose Dave Whiteoak first originated the idea of adding movement and detail with video to the spider’s three legs, and with Tom Wall from BlinkinLAB who created the bespoke show video footage and animations.

 

In terms of hardware, the projection system that was successful at Glastonbury was replicated in Queen’s Square. This was designed by CPL and Video Illusions and comprised six Panasonic PT-DZ21K projectors positioned on towers in special weatherised hides, each beaming onto the front and back of each spider leg. The video footage was mapped and warped to fit onto the three spider’s legs using an Avolites AI media server, and the Metamorphosis show cues were all triggered by timecode, generated by the overall Arcadia custom show control system.

 

The projector platforms were located around Queen’s Square approximately 40 meters away from the spider structure. CPL used six Connex 2-way fibre DVI/RJ45 fibre optic converter transmission systems which enabled both the data carrying the content to the machines and the projector control signals including on/off, colour settings, contrast, geometry control and other monitoring and feedback to run down the same cable.

 

(Photo: Ben Daure)

 

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