HocusPocus.Pyro
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Hello Pyro's,
Yesterday, to my surprise, I saw an interesting piece of documentary on National Geographic Channel. "Inside: Hong Kong’s Big Bang". A firework celebration ringing in 2006, the Year of the Dog. "How do you plan an event to entertain 7 million people?"
I fell into this documentary when it was already started. It included some interesting segments of the complete start to finish of the fireworks show. It was a show that was fired from three barges. Alledgedly they fired 4.5 tons of fireworks. Interestingly enough the documentary even showed the making of the fireworks in a fireworks factory. That was the part where I first noticed it. You can also get a taste for what it takes to organise a large event in an exotic environment with a very different culture, and in a place where people treat each other differently than you may be used to.
The show designer choreographer was the Canadian Patrice Guy, you can see that Patrice has established a good name for himself as a fireworks show designer. He took part in Montreal and other places. They did not show the full details of the fireworks show, in fact, they showed very little of the actual show. But the NGC documentary was more about the preperations and inside details anyway. The fireworks show had alot of problem with the smoke from the shells. It appeared that they had an inversion layer formed at the burst height, that was hanging like a thick blanket.
I do not have any means to convert my VHS tape, with only fragments on it, to an MPG format or anything yet. But maybe someone is able to record this documentary and put it online. So, this is much like a "Heads Up!" to those who may find this of interest too.
http://www.tvgids.nl/programmadetail/?ID=5886100
Yesterday, to my surprise, I saw an interesting piece of documentary on National Geographic Channel. "Inside: Hong Kong’s Big Bang". A firework celebration ringing in 2006, the Year of the Dog. "How do you plan an event to entertain 7 million people?"
I fell into this documentary when it was already started. It included some interesting segments of the complete start to finish of the fireworks show. It was a show that was fired from three barges. Alledgedly they fired 4.5 tons of fireworks. Interestingly enough the documentary even showed the making of the fireworks in a fireworks factory. That was the part where I first noticed it. You can also get a taste for what it takes to organise a large event in an exotic environment with a very different culture, and in a place where people treat each other differently than you may be used to.
The show designer choreographer was the Canadian Patrice Guy, you can see that Patrice has established a good name for himself as a fireworks show designer. He took part in Montreal and other places. They did not show the full details of the fireworks show, in fact, they showed very little of the actual show. But the NGC documentary was more about the preperations and inside details anyway. The fireworks show had alot of problem with the smoke from the shells. It appeared that they had an inversion layer formed at the burst height, that was hanging like a thick blanket.
I do not have any means to convert my VHS tape, with only fragments on it, to an MPG format or anything yet. But maybe someone is able to record this documentary and put it online. So, this is much like a "Heads Up!" to those who may find this of interest too.
http://www.tvgids.nl/programmadetail/?ID=5886100
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