Automate "Le Mime et l’Étoile" – Puy du Fou
The latest addition to the famous European theme park Puy du Fou, the Mime and the Star show gives voice to what we call the belle Ă©poque. During the early days of cinema, spectators saw the filming of a silent film taking place before their eyes.
A TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
In a 3800m2 room built especially to host the show, human-scale sets, numerous machines, light, sound and videomapping coexist, all these elements combined make Mime et l'Etoile a real technical challenge. It is in April 2023 that the first performances of a show with complex scenography begin which will be performed up to 8 times a day. The project manager for automation, Martin De Gaillard explains that the main challenge for a production of this scale is tracking. Indeed, it is a show that needs automation of the control room to offer a quality show to visitors each time while limiting human intervention. In addition, it will have been too complicated given the number of operators on the show to be able to assign characters to targets. Furthermore, for operational reasons the show requires a reliable system with little maintenance as well as responsive support that listens to the needs of the show during the development phase.
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K SYSTEM detects the positions of artists as soon as they enter the stage and sends them to third-party systems participating in the magic of the show.
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For light, the data is sent to a grandMA console to ensure automatic light monitoring. For sound, an L-ISA immersive sound system from L-Acoustics also receives 3D information, allowing key spatial sound for an immersive experience in this 2,000-seat auditorium.
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K SYSTEM also sends this information to a Modulo Pi media server as well as to show control, a Medialon from 7thSense which communicates back to K SYSTEM in order to create scenarios based on the characters who are identified throughout the show using Eliko's UWB beacons.
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Thanks to K SYSTEM, tracking does not require technicians to carry out the tracking manually, a solution that is too expensive and unthinkable for such a complex show. The artists are now free to move so that this show reflects the image of Puy du Fou and its tradition of grandiose historical shows and its breathtaking stage reconstructions.
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