Aktuelle News & Schlagzeilen

IPS uses 200+ square meters of Chauvet Professional REM 3IP screens at “Dune: Part Two” world premiere

The desert planet Arrakis came to life at London’s Leicester Square for the world premiere of “Dune: Part Two” on February 15, 2024, with nearly thirty tons of sand shipped to the site for the gala created by Limited Edition Event Design. For the IP65-rated 3.9 mm pitch panels that were in use at the event - a more than 200 sqm large screen was made from Chauvet Professional REM 3IPs - the rainy weather during the build-up days leading to the star-studded red carpet affair was no issue.

“For the actual red carpet part of the event when the stars were there, it was just a little chilly and dark, but clear”, says Tom Warden of Milton Keynes-based IPS, which supplied, installed, and ran the gear for the widely publicized premiere. “However, the weather during the build days certainly tested the IP rating of the REM 3IP, as it rained most of the time. The screens passed with flying colors.”

“We ran the panels as a single screen, creating a huge seamless backdrop wall”, continues Warden. “The dimensions of the screen itself were 42-meters wide by 5-meters high. The final output resolution was 10,752 px by 1280.” Content on the massive video walls consisted of a full width series of background clips with footage from the film studio, with PIP details added behind sections of the set as backdrops for interviews.

This content was all bespoke for the premiere and created by the film studio to match the screen proportions. Media playback via a Disguise Media Server fed the content to the screens. This helped cut up the content into sections to be fed to the NovaStar MX40 Pro screen drive racks running the screens.

“James Mason, our Project Manager, and the entire IPS crew worked very hard to make everything happen onsite”, adds Warden. “Richard Godin from Limited Edition Event Design did the lighting design and was heavily involved in the technical side of the event, running everything on the ChamSys MagicQ MQ250M. Dan Ainsley was the main LED screen operator for the event, which was a very big deal for us and him, as it featured the biggest screen we’ve ever built.”

The REM 3IP panels were joined at the premiere by other Chauvet Professional products, including F4IP video panels, interspliced with Maverick Storm 4 Profiles that surrounded the 15-meter wide fountain within the gardens for the premiere. Adding an extra dash of panache to the event was a line of sixty Colorado Q40 fixtures, which were arranged across the top of the screen. Generating a moving element were 68 Rogue Outcast 1 BeamWash fixtures on the floor near the carpet.

A collection of sixteen OnAir IP Panels located in key positions provided soft light for the interview areas, while twenty-two Ovation Reve E3-IP profiles were used for key highlighting. These fixtures were used quite often in the interview area, given the large number of celebrities and media at the premiere.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional/IPS/Limited Edition Event Design)

www.chauvetprofessional.com

© 1999 - 2024 Entertainment Technology Press Limited News Stories