Home    Services    Products | Cinema    Products | Audio    Products | Video    Products | LEDScreens    Products | Control    Tech Zone    Case Studies    Gearhouse Companies    Contact    Terms and Conditions   A member of the Gearhouse    group of companies

CASE STUDIES uShaka Marine World What do you do if your daily live shows form an important part of your venue’s attraction, and you want to spice up your show without increasing your staff component? The answer is very simple: you call System Solutions for expert, custom designed advice! That is exactly what uShaka Marine World in Durban recently did when they wanted to create an exciting new show package for the live shows in the Dolphin Stadium. The brief from uShaka specified a system that could capture and broadcast all the dynamics of the live dolphin show, as well as enable the existing staff-component to easily add special inserts and educational footage, as the stadium plays a big role in educating as well as entertaining visitors to Marine World. Sean Stewart, MD of System Solutions, explains that the challenge at uShaka was to supply a show control system allowing one user to control all the technology and media equipment. “They wanted to incorporate video playback and live camera inserts without employing extra staff members to operate cameras and the control panel.” “We at System Solutions designed a simple, easy-to-use interface that controls the entire audio-visual system, literally at the press of a few buttons. It had to be a very dynamic, interactive system, but at the same time had to allow for and accommodate the AV “animal’s” behaviour and unpredictability.” Every aspect of the show’s programming and scheduling is controlled via a single touch control panel. System Solutions also supplied and installed the state-of-the-art 25m˛, 16mm Lighthouse LED-screen, video media server, two PTZ cameras with remote controls and a video cam-mixer. The Dolphin Stadium also got a makeover sound-wise, with an audio media server, audio mixer and a PA-system specifically designed for the stadium’s acoustics by acoustic consultant Bruce Gessner. “The weatherised Renkus-Heinz loudspeaker system covers the whole stadium, and has excellent intelligibility levels,” Stewart explains. Judy Mann, director of Seaworld, says “Sea World has wanted to have a big screen to complement the dolphin presentations for many years. We told System Solutions that we wanted a screen to augment the show and that the screen needed to be able to operate in full sunlight, it needed to operate in the harsh conditions of the Durban beachfront and that it needed to be able to operate with limited daily maintenance requirements and inputs. On top of all that, it needed to look aesthetically appealing and be easy to operate.” “We are happy with the final product. It fulfils the brief provided to SS. Sea World has worked closely with Systems Solutions / Gearhouse for many years. We have found them to be reliable, competent and easy to work with. They worked hard under tough time constraints in order to deliver the screen on time for the December 2007 season.” “ Their service has been excellent on this particular project and they have gone beyond the call of duty to assist us to present the best possible dolphin shows. We enjoy working with Systems Solutions and hope to continue a mutually beneficial relationship into the future.”