At 8.30pm on September 15, the London skyline was transformed for one night only as the BT Tower became Obi-wan Kenobi’s weapon of choice, projecting a giant 600m ‘blue ray’ of light from the top of the BT Tower.
Jonny Milmer, senior lighting designer at Imagination said access to the roof was the biggest challenge for the five-person team: “We accessed the roof through a small hatch so we were restricted with the type of equipment we could use. We went to the limit of what we could do to maximize the effect. It proves that with a resourceful, imaginative team you can achieve anything.”
The lighting equipment weighed almost two tonnes, and was controlled remotely through an iPad more than 500 meters away on the roof of the Imagination building.
Famous children’s television programme Blue Peter aired a behind-the-scenes segment on how Imagination created the Lightsaber™.
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Imagination creates a moment to saber
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Imagination creates a moment to saber
Imagination transformed London’s iconic BT Tower into the world’s biggest Lightsaber™ to celebrate the Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga.
