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CPL provides projection system for Elrow Town’s main and second stages

Spanish party phenomenon Elrow Town took over London’s Olympic park again following their debut one day festival last year, bringing an expanded 2-day schedule with a dance and DJ line-up. CPL was asked to provide a large format projection system for the main and second stages. Mike Radford led the CPL team after they were asked onboard by technical services provider Production Hire from Brackley.

Elrow London’s 2018 main stage (The Town Square) was a big scenic multi-layered design, part of the brand’s highly theatrical touring system. Mike Radford specified CPL’s largest projectors for the Town Square - two pairs of Barco UDX 30Ks, a new acquisition for the company this summer. This was the fourth event on which they had been used.

The organisers supplied their own content and media servers, and the projectors were mapped onto multiple surfaces across the stage including hexagons and other geometric shapes embedded in the set and backdrop, covering a surface 30 metres wide by 12 metres high. The projection platforms were built behind the FOH position, approximately 70 metres away from the stage. With 120,000 lumens of output, the animated images burst into action as soon as darkness fell.

Stage Two - The Cave - was hosted by Sambodromo do Brazil. It was a tented venue and a darker space altogether with another set and full roof installation that traversed the whole space. The projections were beaming onto a large scenic gecko’s head.

The gecko measured 4 metres wide, 2.5 metres high and 4 metres deep, so the two projection sources were blended for even coverage over areas like the base of the gecko’s eye sockets and other partially hidden and shadowy areas.

Radford specified two Panasonic 12K laser projectors, which were rigged vertically and at 45 degrees to one another, due to the RigTec custom portrait brackets utilized to get the machines in the correct positions. The blend was controlled via with a Barco S3 processor.

The 12Ks (with another pair provided for ‘hot’ backup) were used for this darker space which also had a shorter throw distance, and they were located 8 metres above and four metres in front of the gecko, rigged on one of the roof trusses. CPL also provided all the relevant power distribution for the projection systems on both stages.

(Photos: Elrow Town)

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