The ceremony, held at the Cultural Village in Doha on 10 May 10 was the second stage, the first phase of which began in November 2005 and was completed in December last year. This is an ambitious project, the aim of which is to provide gas to some of Qatar's most significant industries.
For this event Creative Technology supplied four Barco R20+ projectors with 0.8 lenses blended onto a 27m wide x 6m high rear projection screen, also provided by CT. This was used to run the main show content and included GFX video and Catalyst. Operated and programmed by CT London's Anthony Bezencon, the entire system was driven by Spyder control, while all playback was via Pronto HD machines.
The main showcase to the event was a 6m x 6m Musion screen that hydraulically floated down from the trussing to sit at its desired position and was used to create a powerful and virtual 3D image/video in front of the main rear projection screen. In order to achieve this effect CT supplied three HD20K blended projectors flown in portrait orientation pointing vertically at an angle of 22 degrees and mounted on frames custom designed by CT London for the occasion.
The entire content was programmed and played through a fully backed up six-channel V4 Watchout system, programmed by CT London's Tom Burford.
A four camera digital High Definition PPU system, mixed by Vision Director Steve Price, recorded the whole Inauguration and fed HD Imag to the Watchout system for display on the Rear Projection Screen. Additionally a sub mix was sent to QTV Qatar for the live distribution of the event to the TV world.
(Jim Evans)
