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Speed Racers Party with PSL Visual FX
PSL creativity and technology helped generate the appropriate pizzazz for the after-show party for ‘Speed Racer', the new movie directed by the Wachowski Brothers, famous for ‘The Matrix' trilogy.
‘Speed Racer' was described by one critic as "hyper-stylised, primary-coloured and taking on the aspect of a glamorous cartoon", and PSL worked with production designer Amanda Davies from AD Events to create a suitably sensational environment for Sir Ian McKellen, Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch and others who had attended the film's premiere.
The party's unusual location was an edgy new space in central London called P3, once a 14,000 sq. ft concrete testing facility belonging to the University of Westminster, and only recently opened as an exhibition area and venue. With its 30' high ceiling and mezzanine gallery floor, P3 offers interesting possibilities for projection on several different planes. Using screens and walls as projection surfaces, PSL created a 30-metre wide visual showpiece. Three new Christie Roadster 20,000 ANSI lumen projectors relayed content from a Green Hippo Hippotizer media server, fitted with a Matrox TripleHead graphics card. Processed with a soft-edged blend, film footage and specially-generated content could be presented as a single seamless 30-metre wide image. Two additional 10-metre wide screens completed Amanda Davies' bold set design, carrying content specified by PSL and created by Nathan and Olli at Silent Studios.
6th June 2008
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