August 2005
XX. World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne
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Media technology – with more than 1.200 square meters of Outdoor LED Screens...
The XX. World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne was the exceptional event in Germany, the highlight of which was the Pope's visit on the Marienfeld near Cologne, and was equipped by CT Creative Technology Germany, international supplier for audio visual media technology with its headquarters in Nürtingen, with a gigantic array of LED screens, LED trucks and the very latest production and broadcast technology.
CT Germany together with XL Video as "ARGE" (= working partnership) supplied more than 1.200 square meters of LED large screens and mobile LED trucks, which were used in the city of Cologne and around it. During the entire World Youth Day 2005, the exceptional event was parallel broadcast onto the Outdoor LED screens with a size of approx. 40 square meters each, which were set up on several different spots for the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims coming from all over the world.
For the highlight of the World Youth Day 2005, the main event with the Pope on August 20 and 21 on the Marienfeld near Cologne, as much as 20 modular LED large screens and 12 mobile LED trucks were set up and technically supported. The dimensions of the LED screens were very impressive – each modular LED screen had a size of more than 40 square meters and the mobile trucks were equipped with LED screens which with a size between 25 and 40 square meters. About one million of pilgrims met on the former open-cast mining area of more than 2.5 square kilometers. They were able to experience live the ceremony with the Pope from everywhere on the 32 LED screens. The two Barco OLite 510 LED screens were most impressive and could be seen again and again on TV. Each one of them had a size of more than 40 square meters surface and were hung up on frames on the right and left side of the papal hill.
Also behind the scenery in the backstage area of the Marienfeld, the technicians from CT Germany were active. Equipment from CT was used for the complete broadcast and production technology for the supporting program on Saturday afternoon, on Sunday morning and for the final program on Sunday afternoon.
During the entire broadcast time onto the LED screens, production technology for gesture interpreters including four cameras and mixers were parallel used. Chart overlays of missing persons, notes and records from the World Youth Week were broadcast from the production onto the LED screens on the Marienfeld for the pilgrims.
For the first time, the signal transmission was realized over DVB-T by CT Germany in cooperation with the Deutsche Telekom. This way, CT Germany was responsible for the operation of the television station on the Television Tower of Cologne on channel 40 for the entire time and supplied a stable transmission of the digital signal of the television stations onto the LED screens, plasma displays and monitors on site.
While the installation on the Marienfeld was at full stretch, the use of as much as 12 mobile LED trucks and modular LED screens, which were fully operational on several different locations within shortest time during the entire week, was another technical highlight. Several LED trucks were positioned for the Pope's arrival by ship and his course across Cologne taking several hours, allowing the numerous visitors and pilgrims a view onto the live broadcast.
The opening event of the World Youth Day in the "Rheinenergie" stadium on August 16, 2005 was equipped with two modular LED screens with a total of 80 square meters by CT. They were installed on the right and left side of the stage - the signal distribution was also realized via DVB-T by CT.
The project for CT Germany started already at the beginning of 2004 including the entire project management and planning concerning media technology. During this time, the team closely cooperated with the contractor Weltjugendtag gGmbH and was responsible in the forefront as well as locally for the material, personnel and logistics coordination for the video sector, the complete video production and signal transmission via DVB-T.
The working partnership CT and XL, having been media technology partners during the XX. World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne – the summer large-scale project in Germany with more than 80 project participants on the sector of large screen presentation and production could have been concluded successfully and to the complete satisfaction of the customer.
Public relations department:
CT Creative Technology GmbH & Co. KG
Daniela Baumann
In der Au 11
72622 Nürtingen
Germany
Tel.: +49 7022 253-121
Fax: +49 7022 253-100
E-Mail: daniela.baumann@ctgermany.com