XL Video Goes With The Flow At Greenwich & Docklands Festival

XL Video supplied video equipment and crew to two high profile performances at the 2008 Greenwich & Docklands International festival in London.
The event presented a free programme of street and outdoor entertainment throughout the area, including "Run" and "Time Is Like Flowing Water". Technical Manager for both events for the festival was Richard Williamson.
XL's project manager Paul Wood commented: "This is the first time XL has been involved with this event. It was great to be involved with creative projects such as this, and it's good to see artists incorporating and experimenting with video in inventive ways."
Staged at The Queen's House, next to Greenwich Maritime Museum, the show told the history of running, with the help of dancing, choreography, music and HD video.
XL supplied 4 Barco FLM HDR18 projectors, 2 Doremi HD video hard drives and a ScreenPro 2 HD switcher for this 30 minute show, featuring specially commissioned HD video content produced by Gary Vernon from film producers Film38. XL Video's projectionist was Paul Barry.
The projectors were positioned 75 metres from the front of the Queen's House, and were overlaid to produce one very bright image measuring 35 metres wide by 12 metres high, providing a dramatic backdrop for the 30-minute performance.
At the London Plazza at the O2 Arena, Chinese landscape painting was brought to life by French vertical theatre company Les Passagers directed by Philippe Riou. They combined the excitement and anticipation of aerial performance, martial arts and multi-media effects in this highly visual work.
Les Passagers performed on bungee ropes suspended in front of a 12 metre high by 14 metre wide canvas structure that was painted daily for the 4 show days.
A fifth of the width of the canvas was clear vinyl and behind that XL rigged a 12 metre high by 2.8 metre wide Stealth LED screen, showing custom animations produced by Beijing-based new media duo 8gg, running together with the performance.
Original music was created by Liz Chi Yen Liew and Tom E Morrison and XL Video's Technician was Rob Smith.
Further information is available from: www.xlvideo.tv.
(KMcA/JM)