Xmas light show

[madpup 0]

Yes i know its only march,

take a look at this light show

 

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=14019

 

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/54726/christmas_light_3/

 

now my question is this

1) how would i recreate that?

2) what equipment would i need?

3) what is the song?

4) why is my dogs nose wet?

 

thanks for looking.

[YourBigEvent 0]

Ask Chris P

Edited March 8, 2006 by ADS Entertainments

[ChrisPointon 0]

Why ask me?. Okay so I put a few extra lights up at Xmas (well okay 4kw worth) but its still not close to that!

[YourBigEvent 0]

Acorns and trees, I don't put lights up FULL STOP,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get wife to do a few though

[madpup 0]

So what do you think Chris,

do you think a novie could set something like this up,

or is it for the pro's only?

 

still like to know what the song is

 

[shifty 0]

The music is called The Wizzards of Winter

[ChrisPointon 0]

The song is by the "Trans-Siberian Orchestra" and its called "Wizards of Winter"

 

The house is in Ohio, and the whole system is controlled by a lighting controller manufactured by Lightorama

 

Rumour has it, that it cost about $10,000 to set up.

[madpup 0]

Iv got about £400 lol

Thanks Chris

[Gary 0]

I've seen that vid before somewhere...I think it was here on DJU, suspiciously enough, Nov/Dec time.

 

There seems to be around 16 unique channels of lighting on the house and the cone tree thing (to the right). The ground-based illuminated figures (just right-of-centre) are sneaky...they look like they're standing in 4 or 5 rows of snowmen (or something) with 1 snowman on the back row, 2 in the row infront of him, 4 in the row in front, 5 or 6 in the front row etc... 1 lighting channel needed for each row...however...then the little figures light up from left to right in columns, suggesting that they're either matrixed (never could get my head around matrixed lighting) or each figure has its own lighting channel, so...if you want to light 15 little illuminated figures (row of 5, row of 4, row of 3, row of 2, row of 1), you'd need 15 channels.

 

So...with the rough numbers above, theres about 30 unique channels of lighting - some of which have dimming features on them.

 

Therefore...you'd need 30 channels of DMX dimmer packs, and a DMX controller (in addition to the raw Christmas lighting).

 

A 4 channel Soundlab DMX dimmer pack costs about £50....so....8 of these would give you 32 channels of dimable DMX, for your £400 budget. (thats 2 channels spare for a snow machine etc http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif )

 

Other pricing/budget considerations include:

 

The DMX controller itself.

 

The speakers/amp in garden so that passers by actually realise that its all running to music, not just flashing inainly.

 

Leads, connectors, several days of "ladderwork", and a few £thousand in legal fees when the jealous neighbours start to sue for sleepless nights due to the 24 hour amplified music etc... http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/snow_grin.gif

[madpup 0]

Thanks Gary

the insane neighbour wants to help,

so we have it in both gardens (semi detached)

gives me a better idea of wot im up against,

 

iv got 9 months to sort it

 

should be fun.

[analyst 0]

The house belongs to Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio, who used 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 christmas lights. Reputedly every light is synchronized by computer and timed to the musical beat to a tenth of a second.

Cost over $28,000.

 

Apparently when it hit the news the neighbourhood became so congested, and the police couldn't even get to an an accident it caused, Carson Williams shut it down out of respect for his neighbours.

 

He did get an offer for a Miller Lite beer commercial which was made out of it.

 

 

But now, they're all at it

 

QUOTE (madpup @ Mar 9 2006, 04:27 PM)

the insane neighbour wants to help, so we have it in both gardens (semi detached)

Ah so its neighbours getting in on the act.

 

Try this one with four houses connected in one street

Edited March 9, 2006 by Gary

[madpup 0]

Just bought this

 

Transcension DMX Baby

• Professional 64-channel DMX controller ideal for intelligent fixtures up to 10 channels each

• 8 intelligent fixtures up to 10 channels each

• 24 pages of 4 freely programmable scenes

• 4 freely programmable programs, Mix/Sequence available (Max. 99 steps)

 

now got to work out how it works

 

http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/stupid.gif

 

still, its a start http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif