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Up all night in the USA! Festival time for Jora Entertainment
Doctor Who Experience
Yet another music festival organiser has reached for the services of the themed entertainment industry as the American “EDM” (Electronic Dance Music) promoter Insomniac contracted Jora Entertainment to design the main stages at four recent events in California and Florida. Nocturnal Wonderland took place on 5/6 September in San Manuel Amphitheater & Grounds in San Bernardino, California. Here Jora Entertainment designed the Labyrinth stage set featuring and two gigantic LED screens and a 3m- tall (10ft) interactive header filled with fantasy content to add to ravers’ enjoyment. Two weeks later, Jora transformed the same set into the Queens Domain main stage for the
Knights
Quest 4D Set to be launched this month at IAAPA Attractions Expo, Knight’s Quest 4D is new from RedStar, the British studio that brought you the 4D animated versions of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Sherlock
Holmes, The Good The Bad And A Horse and The Lost World. Directed by James Rodgers, Knight’s Quest
4D features two medieval knights, each on a quest to be the hero who frees a princess from captivity. Battling against ingenious but deadly traps and puzzles, the knights try every trick to out-run each other. But when they discover the castle fortress holds a sinister secret, the two realise that to succeed they must work together against a common enemy. With over 80 titles in its library, nWave claims to have the world’s largest section of 4D/3D content for theme parks, amusement parks, FECs and institutional attractions. If you missed the full film on nWave’s booth (#4836) at IAAPA, then see the Knight’s Quest trailer now at
youtu.be/rry7MqRcRj4
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Beyond Wonderland festival in Silicon Valley, San Francisco (20/21 September). The headers were changed into a view “through the looking glass” to see the elaborate wonders of Wonderland coming alive on the gigantic LED screens. The Dutch company was on hand for the whole weekend to operate the themed content as party- goers entered the psychedelic world of the Cheshire Cat.
In late October/early November, Insomniac was due to stage further festivals including Escape All Hallows’ Eve in San Bernardino and Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Orlando. At both these events Jora Entertainment designed stages and produced the video content, in addition to providing show direction and, at EDC only, light design. By the end of the four events, the company had helped entertain hundreds of thousands of revellers, had a lot of fun … but not much sleep. As dance music soars in popularity across the globe, so the organisers of such events have upped their game in terms of production standards. In the process several companies familiar to the attractions sector have benefited. This summer another Dutch design firm, P&P Projects, worked with the promoter ID&T to work on the main stage at the massive Tommorrowland festival in Belgium, later shipped to the USA for the TommorrowWorld event in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, in September.
returns Following a seven-week refit, the Doctor Who Experience is open again in the Welsh capital, promising visitors to Cardiff Bay several out-of- this-world encounters, including a brand new show featuring the latest actor to play Doctor Who in the popular British TV series. The award-winning, walk-through attraction created by Sarner for BBC Worldwide started life in London in 2011, where it entertained more than half a million visitors at the Olympia exhibition centre. It moved to Cardiff, where the TV series is filmed, a year later. Visitors to the new-look experience can star in a personal episode of the hit BBC show. Beginning in the Gallifrey Museum, it leads guests into the TARDIS, the time travelling police phone box that serves as the very British spaceship that places the “Doctor” and his female assistants in the heart of their extraterrestrial adventures. Featuring spectacular set design combined with the very latest AV technology and special effects, the Doctor Who Experience now includes six new filmed sequences featuring Peter Capaldi, the twelfth actor to play the lead role. Each guest is given a time crystal to wear as they make their way through the attraction, encountering new monsters, a weeping angels forest and the desolate planet of Skaro. The culmination of the experience is a breathtaking 3D finale featuring exclusive content with Capaldi. “BBC Worldwide asked us to take fans to the heart of their own adventure this time round,” explains Sarner creative director, Michael Bennett. “Their senses will be tested as they feel, hear, touch and smell the journey through the six 360° sets. We’ve taken it up a notch on all levels – technology, story, and creativity and visitor participation. We’ve tapped into current trends like the impressive lighting technology used at music concerts and festivals as well as some of the interactive thinking at other events around the world.”
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Jora Entertainment’s John Rusich (left) and Marjolein van de Stolpe wth the guys from Insomniac
NOVEMBER 2014
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