New Year Fireworks on BBC

[Skyedriver]

Just got around to watching the London fireworks.
Great display, went on a bit long, Edinburgh display shorter but maybe fancier fireworks and they cut short the coverage of the display.
What I actually wanted to comment on was the pictures that were shown in the centre of the London Eye. How were they done, were they just for TV or could the public see them?

[PRO5T]

Fine netting and a projector? Used to get the same effect in Privilege back in the day in Ibiza using a water fall type of thing.

[Fer]

Didn't they say that the animations were only for bbc viewers?

[Murph7355]

Fer said:

Didn't they say that the animations were only for bbc viewers?

https://www.livedesignonline.com/news/pixel-artworks-transforms-london-eye-new-years-eve-hologauze-illusions

I though this year's were a bit dull/passe. And the soundtrack was largely rubbish. But the hologauze stuff is very clever/

[Red Firecracker]

This is a quite interesting Instagram reel of the show from a lighting designer's perspective, it has the TV feed running atop a live feed of the mixing desk combined with a waterfall of the cues.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTBOYSliKk-/

The projection was TV only.

[fooman]

Does any city do bigger better fireworks on NYE than London? I doubt it, keep meaning to go one year.

[Red Firecracker]

Greatly depends on your taste in firework displays. I'm more towards the 'shock and awe' side of display design, so London and Sydney do very little for me.

Taking into account TV coverage being very different from being there and 'feeling it', Dubai was impressive as a whole show, Abu Dhabi was mind boggling (62 minutes long, but boring for the most part. Parts of it were quite exceptional however) and as much as I hate to say it, Paris looked excellent, mainly for location and atmosphere.

I should add, that whilst the London display is nothing I get excited about, I do appreciate the extreme restrictions the display designers are working within, which does make it impressive from that point of view.

[Easternlight]

I was watching a local travel vlogger on new year's day and he said he'd been to the London fireworks and they weren't as good in real life.
And you had to be there for hours beforehand with little to do and then get out afterwards.

I think my biggest worry would be the weather.
Ok to go if you live close enough but not to go just for that, could be a big let down to travel, book accommodation (at new year London prices) plus tickets at £100 a head.

[Skyedriver]

Easternlight said:

plus tickets at £100 a head.

Is that how much it was to get in opposite the wheel?

Thanks for the info re the pictorials - projected onto a fine mesh.

[Mr Tidy]

£100 seems like a nice earner for Citizen Saddiq!

I went once for 2000 and it was a total waste of time - like most of what the Labour Party did, and still does.

Much better to watch on TV, or just have an early night!