“The Key to Dreams,” Futuroscope’s new show, features lighting, fountains, projection and special effects. Photo courtesy of Julien Panie / ECA2
Serving up dreams
Modulo Pi equipment is key to system of Futuroscope’s new nighttime show “The Key to Dreams,” created by ECA2 by Modulo Pi
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uests to Futuroscope park in Jaunay-Clan, France, can now enjoy “La Clé des Songes” (“The Key to Dreams”), a new nighttime show presented in the park’s 5,000-seat water amphitheater, open since June 2021. Designed and produced by ECA2, the show provides the public with a dreamlike, immersive journey, delivered via state-of-the-art multimedia technologies including video projection, lasers, flames and water jets. The show system’s 10 projectors are fed by Modulo Kinetic media servers by Modulo Pi. Futuroscope is ranked as one of the top 20 theme parks in the EMEA region with some 2 million in annual attendance. “The Key to Dreams” was a significant reinvestment to bring a new guest experience to its water theater and the result of a nearly two-year collaboration between Futuroscope and ECA2, a world leader in the design and production of immersive multimedia spectaculars.
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The show blends animation and multimedia to create a multisensory experience. The brief for ECA2 was to reclaim the venue and conceive the new show, integrating new multimedia elements with the existing equipment already installed. In response to this challenge, ECA2 designed a new scenography around the vortex structure, a pre-existing element of 28 tons whose 157 facets form a 270 square meter projection surface. To magnify the vortex, which was illuminated by five Christie LX1500 video projectors, ECA2 elected to enhance the existing system with the Modulo Kinetic media server solution. This consisted of one Modulo Kinetic Designer workstation added to the control room along with two Kinetic V-Node servers, each equipped with six outputs. The team made use of dedicated tools available in the Modulo Kinetic software. Thanks to its virtual camera system and 3D
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