TPi: Extreme Lighting & Sound (ELS) recently wrapped up its first season presenting Holiday Wonders at Bowie Nature Park in Fairview, Tennessee. The dazzling drive-thru holiday light show featured atmosphere-generating effects from a large amount of Elation Professional lighting gear along with custom pixel products and proved a huge success.
ELS was approached by the city of Fairview in September to create and run the show after an initial contractor pulled out, which gave the design and production company only two short months to get everything together.
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I love immersive experiences!! I have realized recently it is what I want to do with my career. I have always been drawn to art as a form of escapism. Whether it is playing music, watching a movie, playing dnd, or making art, it allows me to not think about anything currently bothering me in the real world. I want to provide this to other people, through creating hyper-realistic and immersive "worlds" and environments they can physically enter and interact with. Think of Galaxy's Edge at Disney World and Disney Land. You are transported to another alien world, when you become a part of that story. While not exactly the same, I see a lot of these elements in holiday decor, especially car drive-throughs. For a short period of time, you just get to focus on these beautifully decorated and lit-up scenes that distract you from everything else in life. They are great opportunities for me to learn about how lighting and other props can be used to build a scene, especially scenes that aren't theatre. As a lot of my education as a designer is for theatre, I love to explore design in other forms.
Over winter break I definitely developed a pretty significant interest in more immersive artistic pieces, curating an environment that people can actually wander around and interact with, move up and down left and right and get to inhabit the world in a way that is more direct than what is traditionally seen onstage. Most of my thoughts on thai topic was me looking at places inside, thinking of stuff like warehouses where you have a lot of mobile and workable space to play around with but hadn’t really considered doing something outside. In places like lightly wooded areas or full on forests you can have this prebuilt isolating environment to play around with if you can get permits and work with care to the environment. While lights and projections can create incredibly interesting visuals, electricity and everything that comes with it is not the only thing that you can play around with, you’ve got all the traditional stuff in the ballhouse of scenery that can be used as well.
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