Pyrovision's News Archive 2006

November 2006
Dalston Culture House, Gillett Square
Challenge: To design and fire a firework display from a roof measuring no more than 12 x 8 metre as well as having no other access point but a skylight through which all material and equipment had to be passed.
Display: Using Pyrovisions new range of mine cakes and comet fans together with 45mm and 30mm Mines as well as effects such as flame projectors in an intense 3½ minute display, fall out was kept to a minimum.

Grand Arcade Fireworks, Cambridge
Challenge: To create a spectacular show within a very limited space and audience positioned around the firing site on three sides.
Display: A frontage was created using the new range of Pyrovision cakes, creating great volume and height while being relatively debris free. This allowed the show to 'flow' - shells were only used for short spells for some more intense passages.

“Many people...have commented on the quality and creativity of the show design and we have received a number of they were the best ever type comments.” Cambridge City Council

Campbell Park Firework Display, Milton Keynes
Challenge: To design a spectacular display set to music chosen by the client, with two firing sites, e.g. larger material had to be fired from a site further away due to safety distances.
Display: This year's music was a mix of modern and classical with the finale being set to 'O Fortuna'. A great frontage of nearly 100 metres was created using mines, cakes and candles as well as shells fired from the second site to add to the height and the volume of the display.

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September 2006
Music on Fire at Sandhurst Military Academy
Challenge: To coordinate numerous firing sites, i.e. from the roof, parade ground, grounds behind the Academy, as well as working on a historic building with difficult access.
Display: Pyrovision incorporated effects such as petrol mortars, ground bursts, flames as well as fireworks into the story of the beginning and the end of the world as we know it. Powerful video/slide projection was used together with narration and music to bring this project to life. Pyrovision's new range of fireworks material was incorporated into this show, with great feed back from the audience, i.e. the Brocade Peacock Cake which produces a spectacular gold brocade fan as well as the Volcanic Storm Cake which is a very busy but at the same time quiet cake.

Organiser Major Sir Michael Parker 'The show was met with stunned enthusiasm by everybody, what the hell are we going to do next time?'

Npower 50 Year Celebration Tilbury Power Station
Challenge: To create a firework display worthy of the celebrations and a fitting end to the open day.
Display: The display was set to music, one of the pieces being Robbie Williams' 'Let me entertain you'. To build up depth shells were shot over the top of mines and candles, the finale was a sequence of effect shells, i.e. circle shells finishing on gold spider shells.

“The superb music and fireworks display...was a fitting finale..., the firework display was the best they had ever seen.” RWE npower

August 2006
Bank of Scotland Fireworks Display Edinburgh
Challenge: This year the display was set to music from Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet', which is very moody and slow and is therefore difficult to design to as it lacks in punctuation. The wiring of the display did present a real challenge as so many ground effects were used.
Display: To enhance the mood of the music flares were placed all around the castle hill and lit together with an array of fountains, candles and mines. Heart shells were used in a particular sequence, as the mood of the music changed towards the end shells built up for a truly spectacular finale.

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May 2006
Royal Windsor Horse Show
Challenge: To provide a spectacular end of show display within the height restrictions imposed by the CAA due to the close proximity to Heathrow Airport.
Display: The display was set to music, one of the pieces was 'Jupiter'. To recreate the galaxy through fireworks, geometric shells such as circles, stars, circles within circles were used together with Olympic Flower cakes to create a large frontage of ring effects. At the end of 'Land of Hope and Glory' 85 x 4" gold glitter shells and 110 x 3" gold palm shells were fired within 15 secs creating a breathtaking finale for a stunning display.

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