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The team at RMA Ltd were no strangers to Lands
End. Many of its founders worked on the Original Last Labyrinth
show back in 1987 when it was conceived and built and all but one
worked on the subsequent Moghar the sea monster show
in the basement.
In 1998, RMA Ltd was invited by the management
of Lands End to come up with a scheme that could be installed
within the basement at Lands End. Moghar the sea monster
was fed up with terrorising people and decided to become a dragon
on the other side of the English Channel, so a fitting replacement
was needed.
Lands End had always had a very special relationship
with the local RNLI lifeboat station and crew, so it seemed a good
idea to portray a typical sea rescue as part of the new show.
Ideas came thick and fast, as they do when the
creative juices start running. Within days the RMA team had formulated
a full story-board for the new show from which an animatic was quickly
produced. RMA then successfully negotiated the services of the local
RNLI crew, the local coast guard at Falmouth and the Royal Navy
Sea King Helicopter crew from Culdrose to stage a full scale Air-Sea
rescue operation.
To top that, RMA designed and built a 50 seater
fully themed Motion Theatre as the vehicle in which
to present the new show. The Motion Theatre included
a large front screen, multiple side screen portholes, full surround
sound with sub bass and lighting.
The film shoot took two days to complete with a
base crew of approximately 10. Two camera crews were used simultaneously,
one on the lifeboat, the other either land based or air based in
the Sea King.
The completed show was played firstly to the client
(who thought it far exceeded his expectations) and then to the lifeboat
and Sea King crews. Their opinion
..This is as close
as it gets to the real thing. You couldnt ask for a
better reference!
Since that shoot, RMA Ltd have joined the ever
increasing masses who look-on in awe at the brave work these crews
do, without thought for their own safety, in order to save lives
at sea. It is for this reason that the RNLI is the chosen charity
of RMA Ltd.
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