Minnesota Production Company The Cre8tive Collaboration Gang Takes On Ole Miss! Red Wing Shoes Centennial Celebration

The plan was to create a 75’ peacock fantail water screen in the middle of tightest bend in the Mississippi River, and project over 18 minutes of graphics animation and pictorial documentation that would float almost magically six building stories high over the rivers summer currents. The water screen was designed and assembled by CCG partner Mirage Water Works on an 18’ x 48’ adapted crane barge that included a 454 cubic inch marine engine driving a proprietary pump delivering over 2,000 gallons per minute into a flat rear-projectable surface of aerated liquid. Four DPL 15SX 12,000 ansi-lumen projectors were stacked, manned and maintained on the Wisconsin shoreline. Routed to switching, hi-definition and beta camera equipment for delivery of imagery both hard wired and microwave to the screen, video systems specialist nailed the show and all SMPTE wireless design. The screen itself was then bordered with state-of-the-art lighting Instruments used to highlight the screen, surrounding water, atmosphere and a natural backdrop of trees lining the Wisconsin side of the river were comprised of six 7,000 watt syncrolites and back-ups, twenty four X-spots and thirty six PC Studio Beams, DMX programmed wirelessly with a Grand MA consul. Two forty-watt Yag lasers were incorporated for spatial enhancement. The instruments had to be transported and mounted on over 250 feet of 8-foot construction scaffolding 10 feet off the water line.

CCG pyrotechnics team ladened the water screen barge and two 18’ x 48’ flat barges flanking the water screen for ground level and mid-aerial effects. A special staging area was cleared in the Wisconsin woods behind the barge systems that provided the ability to launch over 900 shells in the 75-second grand finale that included 12-inch pyro shots purchased in Japan. The sound system, was comprised of two Martin main array towers, back stacks and front fill, totaling over 60 individual cabinets. Located in Bay Point park and programmed using a Tascam D78 multi-track chasing Sennheiser 100 and 300 wireless transmitted time code, CCG's equipment delivered a chest rumbling yet intimate 5 point surround sound generating over 76,000 watts of audio for nearly 5,000 invited attendees. Over fifteen hundred hours were spent in generating storyboards and final presentation product. All systems chased a single SMPTE time code signal, both hard-wired and wireless on both shores, utilizing Sennheiser 100 and 300 wireless transmission systems. Power on both shores appeared in the form of 8 Zeigler generators delivering over 650 KVW of power. All individual elements thrived with synchronicity under the direction of CCG's technical staff.

The Cre8tive Collaboration Gang, LLC is a full service show production and managment company.
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