XL Video beam in for Star Trek exhibition

XL Video UK has energised, re-designed and upgraded, plus supplied and installed all the new AV equipment utilised for the massive “Star Trek – The Adventure” exhibition at Hyde Park.
Celebrating five decades of 'Trek', XL was also involved in an intensive three month pre-production period prior to opening, during which time they wrote the new show control software now running the entire exhibition’s audio, lighting, AV, mechanical and automation cues.
XL Video were brought in by UK Promoters Triple A, working for LA-based SEE (Special Entertainment Events) who are staging the exhibition under license from Paramount.
After a previous incarnation of the exhibition had been mothballed in 138 containers in the 1990's, XL Video's Stuart Heaney and Quinton Willison assessed, upgrading, repaired or replaced the kit for it’s 'New Generation' format.
During the re-build, XL’s Quentin Willison wrote the new show control software specifically for the new more complex and sophisticated technical demands of the current exhibition. Orbital Sound were brought in to revamp all the audio elements, and UKE Media did the same with the lighting. Once all technical disciplines were re-created or re-vitalised to the latest specifications, the show was de rigged in Doncaster, and transported to the Hyde Park tent, ready for opening just before Christmas. LSD were contracted to architecturally light the venue.
On site, XL has also supplied 10 Barco projectors, plus 22 Pioneer plasma screens. XL also created six touch screen interactive exhibits, and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the show whilst in Hyde Park until the end of April. Barco 701 CRT projectors are in each of the four flight simulators.
Sited in a 7,000 square metre tent at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, Star Trek is billed as the largest exhibition to hit London since the Great Exhibition in 1851, and contains over $30m dollars worth of Trekkie memorabilia.
SEE intend to take the exhibition around the world for the next five years.
(SP)