LONDON – To ensure everyone could see and hear the Diamond Jubilee festivities in the streets of London, Creative Technology (CT) was asked by event organizers Innovision to provide large modular video displays in Trafalgar Square and St James Park. CT also supplied signal distribution and supporting engineering services to the various mobile screens installed in the Mall and the Palace Forecourt.
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LONDON – With throngs of people traveling to London to see the Diamond Jubilee celebratory events taking place, Creative Technology (CT) was asked by event organizers Innovision to provide huge modular displays in Trafalgar Square and St James Park and to supply signal distribution and supporting engineering services to the various mobile screens installed in the Mall and the Palace Forecourt.
CT provided an 87 sq. meter Lighthouse R7 screen in Trafalgar Square and a 39 sq. meter Lighthouse R7 screen in St James’ Park South, enabling the tens of thousands of visitors and residents of the capital to view the long weekend’s festivities in all its regal glory.
CT also controlled the content across a total of 13 screens in central London, combining the main broadcast feed, locally generated live images and an advertising roll with both ticker and emergency messaging options. Signals were distributed over a fiber network ensuring highest image quality and allowing critical video delays to be set for each screen on the Mall enabling the video images to remain in sync with the relatively slow moving audio travelling the length of the Mall for the Monday night concert. At the furthest point a delay of around three seconds was required to bring the images back in line with the concert sound.
In addition, full audio visual support was provided, including wireless cameras and production facilities to the Mayor of London’s Trafalgar Square event held on Tuesday, allowing the crowds to see full coverage of the days events including Service of Thanksgiving, lunch at Westminster Hall and the Royal carriage procession followed by the Queen’s balcony appearance and Royal Air Force flyby.
Stuart Young, CT’s Project Manager, says, “CT has great experience with these types of special and significant events, where it is especially important to maintain quality and reliability. While this time the majority of the screens were mobiles and provided by others, CT’s experience and engineering expertise was essential to ensure the images were optimized both in terms of signal quality and delay. This is a significant challenge when screens are of different sizes, generations and have limited engineering support. It was a huge event, one that CT and I are proud to have been a part of!”
