event und co Das Fachmagazin für die Eventbranche March 2007

Mother Earth goes Multimedia

In a former Dolphinarium in Holiday Park LOBO is staging “AMACEON”, one of the most spectacular permanently installed multimedia shows in Europe, which even sent the public at a specialist exhibition in Dubai into raptures.

The scientist Dr James Lovelock developed the thesis in the seventies that the earth could be seen as one great living organism. This was the perfect basis for us to create a really exciting show concept: Who is this Mother Earth? What does she look like? What does she think about us?"

The answers to these questions can now be found under the name of “AMACEON” at the Holiday Park in Hassloch in the form of an opulently staged multimedia show. This leisure park in the Palatinate region of Germany brought in the internationally renowned company LOBO for its new top attraction with investment figures up in the millions. Within just six months, LOBO created a universally applicable multimedia theatre which, as well as the AMACEON show, could easily be used in the future with minimum effort to stage other programmes in an alternating operation. To be able to whisk visitors to the park away for about 15 minutes into a dream world far from reality requires enormous technical efforts behind the scenes:

Four high-power video projectors with a total of 29,500 lumens along with 4 laser systems producing 13 watts and partly moveable projectors create laser and video projections which are like holograms in front of a high-resolution, 24 m wide video panorama projection on a water screen with fast switching.  And that is by no means the end of it: to perfect the experience , the new attraction offers water fountain effects, cloud effects, underwater fire effects, 8-channel surround sound and a complete Armada of moveable and conventional lights. Water sprinklers over the spectators and cloud equipment with wind generators provide the last touch of perfection to the dream machinery. The multimedia orchestra is controlled by LOBO’s real-time multimedia workstation LACON-5 which guarantees the simplest system operation imaginable as well as quick programme changes.

Spectators witness the Big Bang, the creation of life and the origins of the human race. One minute Mother Earth is sending down lightning and fire or spraying the spectators with powerful fountains; the next minute she is playfully attending to her favourite creation, humans. Director Hennig doesn’t bother here with plain storytelling or educational content but creates picture sequences like film clips, sometimes abstractly arranged, with a symbolic expressiveness. Most of the show elements were created in the LOBO studios, which meant that valuable production time could be saved.