|
Medialon is used to automate the
“Light of the Angels” Christmas Tree in Los Angeles, CA,
USA. Dennis M. Kornegay from Architectural LEDS, an
american-based integrator, was in charge of all the
Medialon’s system programming and installation.
“Light of the Angels” show celebrates the opening of the
L.A. LIVE entertainment complex located across from the
world famous Staples Center with a free holiday
multimedia and light show featuring a 52-foot tall tree on
the 42,000 square foot Nokia Plaza.
The tree is part of a multi-dimensional light display
combining both holiday music and advanced techno-artistry,
entirely controlled by Medialon Manager. The show
includes fourteen giant video screens on six 85' towers
enveloping the plaza with state-of-the art sounds and
lights, as well as a massive 40’ wide HD screen on the
5-story AEG building, which is also completely covered
in a low-res video curtain as part of the building’s
architecture.
Medialon Manager has been integrated to centralize show
control to single screen and push buttons to enable
on-the fly shows as well as precisely timed events every
night.
“Content was developed separately for each media, i.e.
tree content, video content, audio content, lighting
design”, says Dennis M. Kornegay, Chief Technology
Officer of Architectural LEDS. “Medialon is used to pull
it all together for the final look of the show”, he adds.
The Christmas tree is covered with over 11,000 XL Sphere
LED lights (the only 360-degree light and video source
in the world) and is driven by a D3 video processor by
United Visual Artists. The main plaza sound system is a
JBL Vertec line array with Crown I-TECH amplifiers along
with surround speakers on each tower.
The show lasts 7 minutes and combines lights, audio and
video and never-before-seen 3-d special effects within
the tree to create a holiday spectacular that will
become a new tradition and L.A. LIVE's gift to the City.
One Medialon Manager Pro license also controls and
synchronizes the following AV equipment:
- XL LED Spheres
- United Visual Artists D3 Video Controller
- 3x Sony PDW-75 XDCAM-HD decks
- Evertz HD-9010 Time Code generator
- 7x Mitsubishi DSC LED Controllers
- Sony IXS-6700 HD-SDI router
- 3x BSS Blu-80 audio DSP
- Lightolier Optio system
- Epic Productions custom low-res Pixel Wall
- Color Kinetics Digital Light Engine
- Whole Hog PC lighting controller
- JL Cooper Rackshot and Keyshot
“We chose Medialon because of its flexibility in
controlling various media, ease of programming, ease of
training and its customizable screens feature.”,
concludes Dennis M. Kornegay.
For the opening ceremony, Britney Spears, with the Los
Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry, and Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa, flipped a candy cane switch to light the
Christmas tree in Nokia Plaza. Natalie Cole sang live
for the event which was carried on Superstation KTLA,
broadcast in 5 countries and streamed over the internet
to a worldwide audience.
The show will play nightly at 7, 8, 9 and 10pm starting
December 5th until December 31st, 2008.
Credits:
Bounce Productions was responsible for creating the
show:
Tim Swift, Executive Producer
Roger Ball, Producer
XL Video built and maintained the tree:
Ben Keightley and Mitch Rosenberg, Programmers
Bob McGee, Production Manager
AEG Worldwide provided the screens:
Jim Nowlan, Engineer in Charge
Wade Loewe, Content Producer
Lee Zeidman, Executive in Charge
LA Live, provided the original concept and funding
Lisa Herzlich, Senior VP
IPR services
Infrastructure: Bob Patrick
For further information, please visit:
www.lalive.com |
