Brompton Technology conjures up LED processing magic for Frozen the Musical

10 Tessera SX40 4K LED processors with 22 Tessera XD data distribution units push a 2m x 8m ROE Visual Black Pearl 3 upstage LED wall

By Set up Employees

Posted: March 16, 2022 ⋅ Updated: March 18, 2022

Final August, after a two-calendar year hiatus next a £60million refurbishment project, Theatre Royal Drury Lane opened its doors to a world-wide phenomenon, Frozen the Musical. The story’s remarkable plot and outstanding scenery have been introduced to existence in full, frosted glory thanks to ultra-realistic visuals exhibited on the upstage LED wall. Using Brompton Tessera processing to enable accurately recreate shimmering snow peaks, fjords and mesmerising auroras in amazingly great grades of color, little bit depth and brightness, audiences are transported into the magical planet of Arendelle.

Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, the staff labored in close collaboration with Finn Ross of FRAY Studio who oversaw video clip style Jonathon Lyle of Ammonite, in demand of building process style and video gear rental enterprise, Blue-i Theatre Technological innovation, to convey this internationally acclaimed exhibit to the coronary heart of London’s West Finish.

For the West Stop generation, a 2m x 8m ROE Visible Black Pearl 3 upstage LED wall, with further BP3.9 used to make fjord cliff faces and the proscenium, are driven by a complete of 10 Tessera SX40 4K LED processors with 22 Tessera XD data distribution units, retaining cable runs to a bare minimum. The exact same set up has also been deployed for productions in Tokyo, Hamburg, and both the North American Tour and Australian tours.

“We experienced used six Brompton Tessera M2 LED processors on the original Broadway creation of Frozen, as that was the version available at the time,” explained Jonathon Lyle, Frozen associate video designer, Frozen movie programmer, and director of Ammonite. “It worked amazingly effectively for a single 4k display. The Tessera SX40 was developed as the show’s use of substantial res LED expanded, so it was a all-natural enhance to the workflow,”

ROE Visual LED panels have also been deployed because Frozen 1st opened and are used to create the show’s backdrops, with real and electronic scenery often seamlessly blended. “Unsurprisingly, a lot of the present contains auroras and snow,” said Lyle. “The auroras have incredibly fine grades of colour. Other LED processors struggled to handle this without banding, but by utilising Tessera’s Darkish Magic operation we had been equipped to accomplish impeccable visible general performance, significantly improving the quality of the image on LED screens that are working at fewer than utmost brightness.”

The show’s set capabilities 10 fjord cliff faces and a wood proscenium, all built from semi-transparent solid resin with lower resolution LED screens illuminating them from inside. “Whilst this developed some fascinating appears to be like, it rapidly achieved the restrict of what a 25mm pitch 8-little bit display could produce,” Lyle described. “As we prepared for touring of the show, we labored with ROE to create a custom LED tile that would enable us to produce modular tiles with exclusive edges, at a 3.9mm pitch and with beautiful colour depth.”

Lyle notes that the staff at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane have been proactive in learning the products they use and a short while ago took benefit of Brompton’s training programme, attending the first in-human being session the maker has been ready to hold because the beginning of 2020.

“We have a really very good romantic relationship with the staff from The Theatre Royal, and they’ve completed a great position of acquiring to know the processors on the occupation and without having far too substantially aid from us,” mentioned Brompton’s education & complex help specialist, Steve Harris. “However, this was a great option to present them some neat ideas and tips and how to troubleshoot speedily and how to broaden on the system when the require arises.”

Finn Ross, co-founder of FRAY Studio, concluded: “What can I say? I love Brompton’s products on any present of mine as I know we will get exceptional color rendering across the whole spectrum. We can also run the wall at the minimal end, as we usually want to do in theatre, and continue to retain outstanding image good quality with no banding. We have a expressing, ‘I’ll acquire more or considerably less any screen, so prolonged as it has a Brompton processor powering it’ – which speaks volumes about the excellent of their items!”

Earlier this year, Disney Theatrical Productions confirmed that the manufacturing of Frozen the Musical would be extended until October 2022 thanks to community demand.