Christie Lights Up Singapore’s 49th National Day Celebrations
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Christie technology provided outstanding visuals that impressed crowds at the Marina Bay Floating Platform to celebrate Singapore’s 49th birthday, Aug. 9/14, offering a splash of spectacular colours.
The stunning spectacle was made possible by Christie’s rental staging partner Hexogon Solution Pte Ltd, which deployed a record total of 40 Christie projectors comprising six Roadster HD18K and 34 Roadster HD20K-J 3-chip DLP projectors. They displayed a slew of multimedia content, including 3D effects, onto an enormous canvas measuring 80 meters by 40 meters for the highly-anticipated Show segment that featured 5,000 performers. This is the largest number of Christie projectors deployed at Singapore’s National Day Parade to date, and the largest digital floor projection canvas ever used for the nation’s annual birthday extravaganza.
This year’s NDP Show segment celebrated the can-do spirit and caring attitude of Singaporeans through vibrant multimedia and lively mass displays in four acts – Celebrate it!, Love It!, Live It!, and Be It! – that were creatively juxtaposed with stories of five everyday Singaporeans told in a short film. With a floor projection area approximately the size of a football field, the effects of the digital projections integrated into the performance provided a visual feast for everyone watching the grand event live or on television. Supporting the digital projections were 22 towers that were arranged to depict the skyline of Singapore.
“Hexogon Solution was chosen as the projection provider of Singapore’s NDP for the third consecutive year,” said Lin Yu, vice-president, Christie Asia Pacific.
“The requirements of the organizing committee made it necessary for us to set up 40 Christie Roadster projectors for this year’s NDP,” said Adrian Goh, managing director, Hexogon Solution. “ We delivered a very comprehensive solution from system design and installation – through our ability to supply fast and qualitative content and integration – to solve any technical issues under one roof. The results were the brightest projection and most impressive results to date, making this parade a very enjoyable and memorable one for all Singaporeans.”
The projectors were installed 28 meters above the ground which overlooked the Floating Platform so that the entire area could be mapped. To protect the projectors from inclement weather, the team from Hexogon Solution derived two different types of outdoor enclosures for both upper and lower tiers of the Floating Platform where the projectors were placed. As a long-time user of Christie’s visual solutions and with the experience gained from its previous years’ involvement in the National Day celebrations, the Hexogon Solution team managed to overcome challenges in the areas of image adjustment and alignment to deliver a remarkable projection mapping show that drew thunderous cheers and applause from the audience.
The show included 3,000 performers who rehearsed weekly under all weather conditions, 1,000 participants who work behind the scenes to support the performers, and a 50-strong creative team who conceptualized the Show.
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