EASTBOURNE COLLEGE MARKS 150TH WITH A WORLD-CLASS 3D VIDEO MAPPING SHOW!

09 Nov 2018

FREE WORLD-FIRST 3D VIDEO MAPPING SHOW ! On Friday 2 and Saturday 3 November 2018, Eastbourne College will showcase a sensational world-class video mapping projection show, the pinnacle event in a year’s worth of 150th anniversary celebrations.

More than a year in the making, unique content will transform the College’s iconic Memorial Building into a moving (in both senses of the word) digital artwork; and entry for the public will be free.

Produced by LM Productions, an award-winning Eastbourne-based company with an enviable global customer-base (including Universal Studios, Florida), the spectacular show will utilise six projectors producing 168,000 lumens of light over more than 1300 square meters of building, with images over 18 metres tall. For around ten minutes, in excess of 16,000 frames of animations projected from two specially constructed towers will adorn the front of the red-brick and sandstone building, set to a specialised original sound track and voice over, accompanied by music created in the College’s on-site recording studio by the School’s top choristers and musicians.

Stephen Harvey, Managing Director of LM Productions and parent of a former pupil of Eastbourne College, was keen to work with the College in support of the school’s innovative outlook, stating that a 3D video mapping show ‘would be the ultimate inauguration for the next 150 years’. In a year that saw the school invest £33 million in its future-focused Project 150 development, Mr Harvey added that it was ‘fantastic that we have the chance to share our experience and knowledge with the people of Eastbourne, our home town.’
Headmaster, Tom Lawson, who earlier this year picked up a prize for the College’s lead role in the Eastbourne Schools Partnership (a community partnering scheme that accounts for more than 14,500 children in the local maintained sector) stated: ‘we have an opportunity here to inspire the next generation and we are grasping it with both hands.’ He added that ‘British independent education is well-placed to make the most of emerging technologies. Here, at the College, using breakthrough technology provides a breath of fresh (sea) air as part of our 150-year tradition of innovation.’

Open to all in the community and with no charge for admission, this one-off 3D video mapping show is preceded by live music and bar at 6.00pm, followed by a film about the making of the show at 6.40pm, with the 3D video mapping show itself at 7.00pm. Grange Road and Blackwater Road will be closed for the event and made into pedestrian-only areas for the public to enjoy the spectacle. The event which, it is believed, will be a world-first for a school, will be live-streamed.