E/T/C London have worked in Malta several times, designing and co-ordinating large format projection shows, including the Welcome Malta celebrations in 2004, when 10 new member states joined the EU.
For this latest project, E/T/C UK's Ross Ashton was commissioned by Maltese production company Sign-It to create a special 15 minute narrative illustrating the history of Malta from its discovery 6000 years ago to the present. Ashton researched, wrote and produced the storyboard and originated all the artwork. The soundtrack was edited by Karen Monid.
E/T/C projected a massive distance of 500m across Valletta Harbour onto the Fort from the projector position located at the Old Customs House. They used eight 6kW PIGI projectors with double rotating scrollers, all overlaid to optimise the image brightness, complete with special Barco 125cm lenses. The image was divided into two halves, with four machines covering each half, soft edged together using E/T/C's proprietary OnlyCue software, which was also used to programme and run the shows. The OnlyCue programmers were Karen Monid and Erlwin de Gans, with support from Chris Richardson and Ewan Guichard.
(Jim Evans)
