A director able to watch the finished composite image in real time can be sure that actors and effects work together in each scene exactly as she originally envisioned. Richard Kerris of Alias' marketing staff says it is being developed with a group in Israel and will be shown at IBC in Amsterdam in three weeks. Down two sets of descending escalators to the underground, the rooms beneath the Exhibition Hall carried forward the upstairs themes. Lights dim, your senses are plunged into the strange alertness which accompanies sudden blindness. The Millenium Hotel logo is projected like batman beams across the carpets.
People walk toward the islands of light, stopping to let their irises adjust.
As they became oriented, visitors catch sight of two lavish installations at the entry, one whimsical, one MTV, both expensive. The first includes a laser show of neon-colored beams circling colorfully through dark spaces, reaching toward a luminous white cloud with what appears to be streams of silver rain. Excited faces from many countries glimmer in the black light. Through the laser rainbow and rolling mists of fog machine haze a group of people laugh and reach up to pull on the silver strings. A choir of sixty midi voices sings in response.