Creating an 18 projector slide show for the American Waterways Pavilion

Once again I'm sitting around questioning my creative ability and wondering why I ever entered into the business of producing slide shows, then suddenly the phone rings. It's a call from Michael and Al Hillmann who run a world class production company that specializes in producing communications media for the country's finest art and history museums. They had just been awarded a contract to produce all the media for the American pavilion in the 1992 World's Fair and wanted to know if I would be interested in art directing and programming an eighteen projector slide show for their client. It's amazing how one phone call can change your outlook on things! As you would expect, the slide show had some very extraordinary design characteristics. Naturally, since the American Waterways pavilion was in Genoa, Italy the show was in Italian. The Gallery One Theater was the first thing the visitors encountered when they entered the U.S.A. pavilion. The idea of the show was to introduce the overall theme of the pavilion. It's subject was the vast waterways of America and how they have contributed to the colonization and growth of our country. The audience stood in a hexagon shaped theater as the lights slowly dimmed and visuals danced around them and music filled the air. Located in the center of the theater, cleverly hidden in a scaled down replica of the Chesapeake Bay Thomas Point lighthouse, the slide projectors silently projected their magnificent images. Once again, I had the privilege of designing a show using the slides of some of the top photographers in the world. National Geographic supplied many of the images. The stunning photographs of James Stanfield, David Alan Harvey, Jim Brandenburg and many other inspiring artists held the audience spellbound. The show attracted almost a million visitors and it was a complete success.

It's not often that I have the opportunity to design a show of this quality and character. In the last eighteen years I can count them all on one hand. As an artist, I spend most of my time producing small, low budget yet high quality computer graphics and multimedia projects for my clients. So, whether it's a dazzling 18 projector extravagant production for the World's Fair or a series of Power Point computer slides, please keep me in mind. Put my experience to work for you today. e-mail: ed@multimedia-pro.com now. Home