HARRY POTTER

HARRY POTTER

08 May 2002, LONDON, ENGLAND

08 May 2002, LONDON, ENGLAND

THE HARRY POTTER MOVIE’S LONDON PRESENTATION

The ETC Company, a reputed expert in the creation of panoramic projections, participated in the presentation of DVD / video «Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in London's King's Cross station, where the platform No.1 is magically transformed into a platform 9 ¾.

6-KILOWATT PROJECTORS AT A DISTANCE OF 125 METERS

Development of the ideas made by Mr. Chris Slingsby and Mr. Dave Hurd from the Imagination Company. Venue — the platform — have been approved, it remains to think up how the hundred different successive pan shots will be displayed on the walls of the station.

The only way to achieve this effect is to use the projection. When the idea of the projection was approved, Mr. Chris Slingsby and Mr. Dave Hurd turned

to Mr. Ross Ashton, ETC Company.

From the beginning ETC Experts had to deal with the problem of light, because apart from the first platform station functioned normally — neighboring platforms had arrived and departure trains, passengers scurried etc..

The images were projected on the arch under crowing station. ETC technology have placed a 6-kilowatt projectors on the bridge at a distance of 125 meters, two pairs of projections

duplicate image for maximum brightness. Since the show beginning at 7:30 am all four projectors has been programmed to receive a single picture.

However, after nightfall, they were transferred to the operating mode in two pairs, and then started changing of panoramic images. Projection, of course, added the magic in everything that happens on the platform.

Montage time was also limited: ETC specialists could work in the period from midnight till 4 am for three nights before the event. The first of this night fully left to install equipment on the bridge. Little time we could win due to the fact that the image position was pre-programmed in the ETC office.

A huge advantage of projectors over other similar is very flexible control system of alignment image in all directions: the image could be rotated to adjust its position horizontally and vertically. This system allows you to align quickly a hundred images, and calibrate the position of each separately.

The process of projection preparing made Mrs. Karen Monid and Mr. Andy Murrel. Harkness Hall Group provided the original screen for station crown for projection.

MEMBERS OF THE PRESS AND THE FAMOUS HARRY POTTER FANS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THE DVDS FROM THE HANDS OF THE ACTORS, WHO ARRIVED BY THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS