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MEET THE TEAM Peter Nigrini Projection designer Lacey Erb Associate projection designer Zoey Crow Associate projection designer Mogzi UK associate video designer and programmer Alessandro Uragallo Animator Alex Ramsden Lead video engineer Chris Jackson Video engineer Sam Gough Video engineer Jakub Krumpolc Video engineer
Beetlejuice was able to offer such immersive and visually interesting sets through the use of an LED wall and projection to extend the scenery
with a particularly strong emphasis on ensuring that the visual language of the show translated reliably into a live performance setting. “Collaboration between projection design, animation and engineering teams was key,” he continues. “Content was created to extend the physical set rather than sit behind it, meaning the video had to integrate precisely with scenery, lighting and performer timing.” Rather than functioning as giant television screens, the LED wall and projection instead became extensions of walls, doors, windows and impossible supernatural spaces, so achieving that required careful technical discipline. “A lot of the work focused on making sure that ambition was possible within the constraints of live playback systems, cueing accuracy and automation timing. The result is an integrated system where projection, LED content and physical scenery all operate as a single visual environment rather than separate layers.” RIGHT ON CUE Making hundreds of cues happen within a split-second requires more than captivating content, it also needs a sophisticated control system capable of orchestrating every visual element.
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