EDINBURGH TATTOO

August 2009, EDINBURG

ETC LONDON AT THE PARADE OF MILITARY BANDS

ETC London in 2009 once again created a stunning 90-meter long panoramic projection for the parade of military bands.

The company participates in this significant event in fifth consecutive year. At this time, mindful of the success of the projection show of 2008, the organizers decided to increase the width of the projections from 60 meters to 90 meters. Such projection “closes" the wall of Edinburgh Castle esplanade / scene, forming a giant backdrop for the show.

Creating an original design for the projection engaged by Mr. Ross Ashton. Panoramic images were accompanied by about a half of speeches parade, which was a record value since the beginning of the use of interactive visual show at the parade in 2005.

To work on this event, ETC uses four 6-kilowatt projectors with double scrollers. Three of them are "embedded" the castle walls and a fourth were sent to the gateway through which the participants appeared parade.

Mr. Ashton worked on the graphics, along with the executive director and producer of the show Mr. Euan Loudon.

Sixtieth parade traditionally boasted a large number of foreign teams — this year it came to more than 1000 participants from around the world: from the Kingdom of Tonga to South Africa, from Australia to Switzerland.

In the center of special attention were the performances of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain.

AS PART OF THE PARADE CELEBRATED THE 250 ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF SCOTLAND'S GREAT NATIONAL POET ROBERT BURNS

As conceived by Mr. Ashton during a performance of music of the Royal Corps of Tonga on the walls of the castle appeared crossed palm leaves, turning the ancient fortress in the giant tropical scenery, painted with colored light beams.

During the show of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain, showing how the evacuation of casualties with the enemy's territory, the arena went projected Chinook helicopters.

The action takes place directly before the gates of the castle, which was centered with respect to the projection.

Mr. Ashton had the opportunity to fairly fun, when he worked on graphics for the choreography of comic poems of Burns 'Tam O'Shanter'.

Prior to that he had never read this work, therefore they worked on the illustration of the funniest moments in this story about the intoxicating adventures ... which started in the pub!

The greatest impression on the audience made a sinister and sometimes eerie scene depicting the devil to play the bagpipes, surrounded by dancing witches who appear in the form of huge skeletons!

On the scene at that time held a full dynamic dancing group Massed Highland Dancers.

In the projection for the submission musical ensemble of the Royal Air Force "Born to fly" were used photographs of aircraft, among which stands out red-white Hawk T1 "squadron" Red Arrows ".

Mr. Ashton suggested in the conclusion of the parade to honor the memory of Henry Allingham), the oldest veteran of World War I, one of the founding members of the Royal Air Force, who died recently aged 113 years. For this part of the show I used photos from the family archive of the veterans who have been transferred to film.

Mr. Ashton said: "The parade of military bands in Edinburgh has become one of the key events in 2009 for the ETC Company and for me personally as a designer. I am particularly pleased to help create the show, and I am glad that the idea of using a panoramic projection is becoming more popular, when it comes to representations of the world level. "

Show Programming in the ETC Company’s ONLYCUE and sales projections engaged Mrs. Karen Monid.