Medialon Controls Mangrove Groove, Chinese Aquatic Show

Medialon has been selected by ECA2 to be the main show control system on Mangrove Groove stunning 38-minute multimedia aquatic show in OCTBAY, a new shopping and entertainment complex in Shenzhen, China.

ECA2 -- a France based company specialized in creating and producing major events and shows around the world -- designed and produced show, featuring what is reportedly the world's largest aquatic stage ever built covering an area of 60,277 sq. ft.

The Medialon show control system controls two water screens with a 164' base; hundreds of water jets and custom moving jets; five geysers; 14 flame effects, one MA Lighting grandMA 2 console, 600 underwater lighting units and 60 automated lights; five Christie 35K and two Christie 20K projectors, two Modulo media players, and one Dataton Watchout 4 unit; one Tasca, X-48 work station; an internal audio player; and five laser projectors. Thanks to Medialon Manager Panel, a free user interface design tool, several graphic user interfaces have been created. From a single touch of a button, the AV technical staff can run the show (show mode), make video tests (test video mode), and check the status of the devices (status mode).

The "status" mode has been designed to show the technicians the exact location of each device. Access buttons allows to directly check the status of all the AV devices as well as eight temperature sensors, one wind sensor, 14 UPS (uninterruptible power supply), pressure levels of water effects pumps and compressors, video projectors lamp status, and useful lamp life span calculation.

Two Medialon Manager units run synchronously creating a full redundant system that switch automatically at any time (an even during the show) from unit A to unit B or from unit B to unit A if any unit failure is detected.

Medialon Manager has also been programmed to retrieve log files from devices located in different areas of the stage to helps show technicians to immediately see if there is any issue with an AV device during the show, and help them fix the machines very fast.

"Medialon Show Control system helps us to run, to synchronize and to monitor hundreds of special effects. All of these devices interact with more than 50 actors, acrobats and dancers, and it has proved to be a safe and reliable tool to achieve our interpretation of the life in the mangrove surrounded by an incredible amount of mysterious and enchanting creatures," declares Jean-Christope Canizares, ECA2's CEO and show producer.

"During the last 30 years ECA2 has tested, installed and commissioned lots and lots of show control systems and we even had our own software called PILS that is still running satisfactory in many shows all around the world, but when we decided to stop this product and switch to a solution from the market we went naturally to Medialon," concludes Guillaume Duflot, ECA2"s COO and technical director.