Using exclusively Christie projection, they helped the City's landmark Grade 1-listed Royal Liver Building celebrate its centenary, while marking the opening of the Museum of Liverpool - the largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century. With both buildings sited at the Pier Head the event was fittingly entitled Reflection on the Waterfront.
The showstopper on each of the three nights was the pixel-mapping extravaganza, titled The Macula Spectacular.
The contract required carefully, geometry-aligned projection onto the two buildings - the history of Liverpool onto the Royal Liver Building and a series of modern art projections onto the Museum, which had been opened just days earlier.
For the former, two Christie Solaria CP2230 digital cinema projectors were deployed. A further CP2230, with DCI kit, was detailed, along with two HD18K's. The projectors - all owned by AV Media Group - were fitted with either 1.1-1.4:1 or 1.8.-2.6:1 HD zoom lens.
The content was created by The Macula, and while the Museum projection was fed from two coolux media systems the Royal Liver Building show was powered by high powered PC's running Resolume VJ software which triggered the effects.
Manchester-based, dbn, who handled the equally spectacular architectural lighting, also provided a Hippotizer media server, linked in to the projection system so they could apply block colour, This was mapped exactly to the projection surface area and filled that space for the warm up period before the video show fired up.
(Jim Evans)
