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tarm Showlaser at Winter Olympics
The organisers were bent on making the events and official ceremonies at the Vancouver Winter Olympics the best ever. They hired no less than Australian producer and director David Atkins, who put on the opening ceremony at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, to outdo himself at Vancouver.
Atkins then banked on the expertise of the same team of worldwide-active laser specialists from Bochum, Germany, who had made impressive contributions to the opening ceremonies at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2006 Paralympics in Turin to come up with some attention-getting laser sequences.
Preparations for the opening, victory, and closing ceremonies, which went on for 15 months, took place under the strictest secrecy. Following a reconnaissance visit to Vancouver and rehearsals conducted on a test set-up in the company's own facilities, tarm Showlaser's three-man team was ready to roll three weeks before the opening ceremony, which allowed them plenty of time to install their equipment on site, add the final touches to the programming, and conduct rehearsals before the deadline. A total of four tons of laser equipment was air freighted to Vancouver for the ceremonies.
tarm Showlaser's managing director, Ralf Lottig, stated: "It is a great honour to be selected to put on a laser show at the official Olympics ceremonies for the third time and this was surely this year's most sought-after laser-show job, worldwide."
In picture: technical director Ian Baldwin (right) and Ralf Lottig at the rehearsals in tarm Showlaser's Bochum studio; laser effects during the closing ceremonies at BC Place.
5th March 2010
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