Sunday, September 02, 2012
Images For Olympics Opening Ceremony
livedesignonline.com: In early 2009, Crystal CG, an international creative agency, was appointed as the official digital imaging services supplier for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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I give immense credit to the people who worked on any aspect of the Olympics. As a manager, I always watch events like that with completel awe. The sheer scope of show is immense with hundreds of gigantic set pieces and thousands of performers and personnel. While watching the video posted here, one can only imagine the effect and skill it takes to plan the projection and media of the Olympics. With thousands of LED lights around the stadium and projections at a complete 360 angle. I wonder logistically how this was all managed. I would love to look at the planning and scheduling calendars and notes for this monterous task.
Coming up on a month following the Olympics, I'm still marveling at Tait's LED pixels, featured in Crystal CG's video here. Such a clever concept to deliver a clean image even amongst all the bodies watching the Ceremonies! Such a concept could make a huge impact on the arena show and concert world, if only the implementation was not so incredibly time- and labor-consuming (Live Design reports it took a crew 10 weeks to install, 5 weeks of which dedicated solely to cabling). Of course, this is for 70,000 pixels - perhaps a smaller installation could be more feasible for a venue to install, though it would require the infrastructure of a designer or technician on staff to make it usable and collaborate with an artist's media designer. Hoping to see more fun stuff develop from the Olympic Stadium installation and the shows/concerts that will use it in the future!
This past summer was the first time in my life that I have watched every single second of the opening ceremonies and I thought it was fantastic. I was fascinated by the use of technology in these Olympics. The news was constantly discussing how social media such as twitter were giving the public a backstage look at how the athletes experience the games. In the opening games I particularly enjoyed the LED light that were placed in the audience and how the performance continued into the audience. There was no limit to their stage. I also particularly enjoyed the transformation that occurred when the agrarian area turned into the industrial revolution. I loved the process of peeling away the grass and finding the hard metal and gears underneath.
Watching this years Olympic Opening Ceremony was entirely unlike the previous opening ceremonies I've seen. While I've always loved to see them and have found myself in complete awe, this one forced me to think about the organization behind it. Question after question kept popping up. It was fascinating to watch. What I was most curious about while watching it on a tv was what it would be like to see it from an audience seat. We sort of have a lot of footage from the athletes' points of view, but what would it have been like to stay in one seat for the entire ceremony? I can't help but think more of the show would be lost than gained by watching it live. That's a shame (if it's true) but also makes perfect sense for what it is. I'd love to hear an account from that perspective.
This was an amazing image displayed at the olympics for the whole world to see, and I'm sure it was even better in person. The details and planning behind something this big leaves me in awe just thinking about it. It is unreal to image being able to work on a production that is this big and well known around the entire world. I applaud the crew that it took to put this on without any flaw and hope to be involved in something that is reputable as the olympic opening ceremony one day!
The dedication that Crystal CG put into the opening ceremonies was just miraculous. I thought it was absolutely amazing to make the stage limitless to the audience. Incorporating the audience into the world of the ceremony opens up your imagination significantly. I am sure that individuals looked across the arena more than right next to them. But having a LEDs suddenly change next to you can only make you wonder even more.
I watched the entire Opening Ceremony wishing that I could have been there in the stadium to witness it live. Watching the stadium transform into a huge array of LED video pixels, which spanned across the entire audience was fantastic. The smooth transitions of interchanging sets to show the different time periods and the hundreds of actors and dancers made for one of the most memorable Opening ceremonies ever. It was really a display of technology and performance at its best.
As with any Olympics opening ceremony this must have been a planning and scheduling task and I must say that the execution and use of technology and theatre and the direction of the entire production was on point. If there were any mistakes, and I am sure there were some, no one knew.
The level of production that Tait Technologies and Crystal CG together displayed was amazing and I wonder how the permanent fixtures in the stadium will be used i the future, because it will probably be very expensive without an "Olympics budget" to utilise the technology effectively.
I would have loved to watch the opening games live, because its always different to watch something like this in person. When i did start watching the opening all i could think about was how expensive each is. I would love to see the budget breakdown and see how much the different elements cost. I'd also like to know a little bit more about the rigging system they used.
The olympic ceremony this year was fun to watch because of how they chose to uniquely approach the direction of it. Following Bejing was quite a task.. and they chose to do something entirely different from them - and it worked. I enjoyed watching small detailed theatrics to the large scale technological feats. Being apart of that production must have been the greatest feeling in the world. I followed the LD on twitter during the production and he frequently kept mentioning how he was "rocking the world" - and he was. Hope to be apart of a show that exposed to the world and bring the theatrical magic that is produced in an olympic stadium in London all across the world.
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