Bentley Continental GT Launch
London, September 2010
Working with London agency Flourish, we created a projection mapped reveal for the new Bentley Continental GT. We worked with Immersive to map on to the car using the Addict Server.
Top Gear Live 2010
Earls Court, London
Touring from November 5 2010
We created over an hour of video backdrop for the new Top Gear Live Show, Prototype. The content was all designed around the set design which we helped consult on.
Smirnoff "New Years Eve Party in July"
Caracas, Venezuela, July 2010
Working with our Madrid friends, Puravida, we created this mammoth immersive environment for Smirnoff in Caracas. The concept was to throw a new years eve party in the middle of July.
Bluewater Dome Mapping
Bluewater Shopping Center, Kent, UK,
October 2010
Working with London Agency Foxkalomaski, we created a projection mapping stunt on one of the dome ceilings of Bluewater Shopping Center. Technical production by Bluman Associates.
Gabon 50th Anniversary Dome
Libreville, Gabon, August 2010
The Darkroom was commissioned by Paris based agency Geome to create a 10 minute film to mark the 50th anniversary of Gabon's independence. The production involved 360° live action filming for which we invited Dutch company Yellowbird to help us with.
Gadgetvader
London, England, July 2010
Jason Bradbury from The Gadget Show put us together with The Viral Factory to try and come up with a smash hit viral video. Introducing: Gadgetvader! The making of Gadgetvader features on the first episode of The Gadget Show in the UK on Monday Aug 2, 8pm on FIVE.
Glastonbury Shangri'la Projections
Somerset, England, June 2010
Shangri'la, Glastonbury Festival, the late night pleasure seeker's mecca. The Hub Wall Spectacular, Commissioned by Debs Armstrong made possible with funding from Arts Council England, The Darkroom mapped video onto the whopping 180', 60m Shangri'la Hub Wall.
Crowded House, Auckland Town Hall
Auckland, New Zealand, April 2010
In another collaboration with the extraordinary IOP Productions we created a colourful and at times unusual backdrop for a sold out gig at the Auckland Town Hall with the legendary Crowded House.
Gadget Show Live
Birmingham, England, April 2010
The Gadget Show is a popular TV series in the U.K. with a focus on technology. They asked us to create a 10 minute 'wow' moment to feature during the Gadget Show Live, inside the Super Theatre at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, with over 65,000 visitors.
The Onyas
Wellington, New Zealand, Febuary 2010
The amazing crew at Webstock, the masterminds of the greatest celebration of New Zealand's web industry said they wanted us to help them see off The Onyas Awards 2010 with a bang using the wonderful Wellington Town Hall as our canvas.
Auckland Ferry Building
Auckland, New Zealand, October 2009
In collaboration with IOP productions,The Electric Canvas and a group of interactive artists we produced a projection mapped spectacular for NZ's Telecom. Our canvas was the old Ferry Building in downtown Auckland, a beautiful pre war construction on the waterfront.
Kimberley Projections
Norfolk, England, July 2009
We got invited along to do some video mapping projections at a secret festival in the North East of England. The theme and logo of the party was the heart. We spent a couple of weeks in the studio creating the show which opened the party.
Aramon Ski Season Launch
Madrid, Spain, November 2009
Working with Festival Puravida we created a 360° video that featured 5 of Aramon's ski resorts. We photographed the fields and surrounding mountains in early autumn, before the first snow fall and added the snow ourselves, digitally, throughout the night. Later in the evening we put some polar bears, dinosaurs, trains and hot air balloons into the mix.
Projections on Auckland Town Hall
Auckland, New Zealand, May 2009
The Darkroom in collaboration with Electric Canvas produced this show for Inside-Out Productions to mark the launch of Telecom's new XT network.
Louis Vuitton Exhibition
London, October 2009
Seagrams Gin
Madrid, Spain, May 2009
Our new friends at Pura Vida in Spain brought us in to create an evening of unabashed 50's/60's American nostalgia for the launch of Seagrams Gin into Spain. The effect was completed with poker, blackjack and roulette tables, and glamourous Cigarette Girls circulating through the party.
FIFA World Cup Bid Launchs
Canberra, Australia, June 2009
For Australia's bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018-2022 bid we worked with David Grant Special Events to create a virtual football stadium inside Capitol Hill, Canberra.
Giant Inflatable Rugby Ball Film
London, December 2008
New Zealand's Giant inflatable rugby ball touched down in London next to Tower bridge. We directed and post produced the film that plays on the inside skin of the ball - an immersive 360 degree tour of our beloved homeland. This new version of the film includes new live action scenes shot with the Red One camera.
Grazia Magazine Launch
Sydney, Australia, May 2008
We created a 360 degree wall of fashion visuals and motion graphics for the Australian release of the 100 year old Italian fashion magazine. Syncronized sound and live visual mixing on the night by
British Vogue Tribute
London, December 2006
Louis Vuitton's Bond Street store asked us to create a tribute to British Vogue on the occasion of the iconic magazines 90th anniversary. The video was screened in the stores front windows for a week during December 2006.
2008 NZ Music Awards
Auckland, New Zealand, Oct 2008
The Vodafone NZ Music Awards moved to the massive Vector Arena located in the Auckland CBD for this dress-up night for our most talented musicians. This was our 4th year in a row, and the biggest with our screens being over 7 metres high.
Gen-i Conference
Rotorua, New Zealand, Oct 2008
We re-created the streets of Buenos Aires for this immersive enviroment, the largest of it's kind achieved in New Zealand. It was created using x8 20k projectors on a fully enclosed eight-screen surround environment that was 8 metres high. We created over 200 individual movies at a crisp resolution of 11200x800 pixels
Louis Vuitton 5 Canton Rd
Hong Kong, March 2008
Louis Vuitton opened its flagship store in the famous shopping district of Canton Road, Hong Kong.
David Jones Collections Winter Launch 2008
Sydney & Melbourne, Febuary 2008
We filmed the unique landscapes of Japan during winter, then combined this stunning imagery with motion graphics for David Jones' winter show 2008.
David Jones Collections Summer Launch 2007
Sydney & Melbourne, August 2007
After several days of shooting in St Tropez on the beautiful French riviera we came back to NZ and put this incredible scenery together with our digital designs to create a look for David Jones' summer show 2007.
Channel 10 Season Launch
Australia, Nov 2008
This was the first graphics job made outside of this networks own design studio. We presented the new seasons programming with live mixing from The Dub Module.
NZ 50th
Auckland, New Zealand, March 2008
A well known New Zealander decided to throw a party for his friends and commissioned us to make a movie that best represented what NZ was to him. We created a 'digital kiwiana' landscape which was 10 metres long by 3 metres high.
2007 NZ Music Awards
Auckland, New Zealand, October 2007
This was our third consecutive year producing motion graphics for the biggest night in New Zealand music.
Rugby Ball
Paris, 2007
A initiative by Tourism New Zealand and the brain child of Inside-Out Productions, this 10m high and 20m long inflatable rugby ball venue was based next to the Eiffel Tower for the Rugby World Cup 2007.
Bruce Ferguson was commissioned to direct a 10 minute film that would screen on the entire inside skin of the ball.
Lancome Colour Design Awards '06
Sydney, Australia, June 2006
Working with David Grant Special Events and T, we created the AV backdrop for this fashion awards show. The theme of the night was based on "A Mid-summer's Night Dream". We filmed the ballerina, models and makeup artists in a Sydney greenscreen studio and with the Dub Module VJ team created a live interaction between the real ballerina on the night and her projected image.
Louis Vuitton Taipei
CKS Memorial, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2006
We were asked to collaborate with Taiwanese artist Michael Lin for this party. We spent a day photographing time lapses in Taipei before returning to The Darkroom to superimpose Lin’s art into the footage.
The final animations featured Lin's art growing over the buildings of Taipei, his home city. The movies were projected onto a 20 metre screen inside a specially erected venue in CKS Square, Taipei..
Louis Vuitton Video Stairs
Hong Kong, Dec 2005-08
Three flights of plasma video stairs were created as part of Louis Vuitton's new flagship store at the Landmark in Central Hong Kong. Having worked on a similar project in Tokyo earlier in the year, we were approached by the architects to create the content for the stairs. The animations feature figures climbing, descending and traversing the stairs. Since the first installation, we have provided five further updates to the animations which play in the store to this day.
Dancing with New Idea
Sydney, September 2005
We were asked to create a VJ performance that celebrated the history of New Idea magazine and a new season of TV’s “Dancing with the Stars”. We were given access to the New Idea back catalogue and employed the skills of graphic designer Matt Oak to help pull some of the designs together.
We also did a studio shoot with five salsa dancers to complement the dancing theme of the night.
NBC Season Launch 2007
New York, April 2007
Following on from our work with NBC the previous year, we created a motion graphics showreel package of the season's upcoming shows. Working again with David Grant Special Events, we created a "forest" of cylindrical plasma towers throughout the Rockefeller Center.
NBC Season Launch 2006
New York, April 2006
We holed up in a hotel room in New York and combined the HD footage from NBC's new season shows with our motion graphics for the "NBC Upfront" Season launch at the Rockefeller Center. Playback was on 2 LED walls and several 50" plasma screens dotted through out the venue.
Tiger Beer Banquet
Auckland, New Zealand, Febuary 2006
For this mystery dinner, prize winners were flown from around New Zealand to a secret location - a forgotten warehouse in Auckland.
We created an evenings worth of visuals with an asian flavour. The Dub Module and AV company Spyglass created a playback system which projected the visuals around the entire length of the banquet table.
Louis Vuitton Paris
Champs Elysees Paris, November 2005
This party, marking the reopening of Louis Vuitton’s store on the Champs Elysees, was held in Paris’ Petit Palais. The idea was that the trunk contained the history and patrimony of Louis Vuitton, thus we were given access to the company’s photo archive to help in creating the visuals.
MacQuarie Bank
Sydney, May 2005
This event in Sydney's Botanical Gardens marked the 20th anniversary of MacQuarie bank in Australia.
It also featured Australasia's longest LED wall - 42m x 2m - that spanned the length of the room. We designed several hours of themed content for the night. The Dub Module designed the playback system and triggered the visuals live throughout the night, mixed in with time-lapses and high resolution panning shots.
Lancome Colour Design Awards '05
Sydney, Australia, June 2005
This event, at Sydney's Grand Hall of Industries, involved a 360 degree wrap around audio-visual environment. We interviewed each of the student designers competing in the show and complemented their individual styles with graphical and photorealistic visuals. The theme of the evening was "French Riviera".
Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills
Tokyo, April 2005
The Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills store was built with it’s own patented video system that transmits video through the tiles of the floor using fibre optic wires. The Dub Module was commissioned to write, design and produce the looping animations which are played back on the system on a daily basis. The Dub Module brought together The Darkroom and design consultants, Roger London to create three themed zones on the floor of the store, including the stairs.