SEEGROTTE wedding installations

CORRIDOR-INSTALLATION
Introduction | Sound-Simulation | Making Of

The backlight images are basically modified carton boxes.

We cut a hole into the black cover and into it we implemented the printed image (A3 format) in front of a white, frosted plastic sheet. Into the box we bonded battery-powered LED lamps. (It took a while to find cheap ones, that have best emission in especially this dimensioned boxes.) To achieve stronger light reflection - and lighter shining results - we covered the box inside faces with aluminuim foil.
To let these boxes appear in about 1,20 Meter high, we built a simple construction out of a thin plastic pipe and a wooden connection to the box.

The composition for the sounded scenery was based on the idea to play each group of instruments on different audio sources.

Because we had to go without electrical power, we simply used MP3-Players with integrated speakers, battery-powered. With a simple trick we achieved to let them play synchronized.

The MP3-Players were placed at about every second of the backlight images. Just because of the architechture and length of the corridor it resulted into a reduced acoustic pattern depending on your position: at one end of the tunnel you could not hear the sound of the other end. In the middle you met the main theme while the side-sounds mixed in smoothly.

Organizationally Challange

The biggest challange was one of organizationally nature: we only had 45 minutes for placing ALL installations. That was the duration between the end of the last guided tour until the wedding guests entered the grotto.
When you walk from the entrance until the other end where the celbration ceremony happend, it takes you about 10 minutes. So each hand movement had to be calculated meticulous and each mistake could result into loosing a big amount of time. Especially the organization to place the corridor items in a short time was a mission by its own.

Of course there did happen some mistakes - and we did run alot to catch up time - but at the end everything was fine.