Digital Rehearsal

Digital rehearsal gives directors, designers and organisers a major breakthrough in the planning and implementation of major events. No need for expensive set builds, costume making and dress rehearsals. The complex vision and creativity of designers and directors can now be brought to life in a virtual environment.

With digital rehearsal you can re-create every aspect of an event, from spectator flow to spectacular choreographed routines. Security, seating and people flows can be planned in virtual environments. Broadcast camera positions and lines of sight, press and hospitality provisions and VIP areas can all be mapped in minute detail.

Remarkable as it seems, the awesome Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony was perfected with digital rehearsal — including the actions of over one hundred digitally-generated performers. Now you can harness the same power to rehearse every scenario in advance at a much-reduced cost.

Planning Stage

• Enhanced discussion of different options
• Improved decision-making
• Improved presentations to stakeholders

Creative Stage

• Boosts creative team confidence
• Provides better choreography and practice tools
• Optimise camera line-of-sight

Implementation benefits

• A cost-effective planning breakthrough
• A wide-ranging tool you can use from initial concept to security and disaster-recovery planning
• Time-saving for the live event - the digital rehearsal environment enables you to set-up lighting, camera angles and more.
• An ideal training aid for current and future events
• A rehearsal tool for directors, designers, performers and broadcasters alike

Crystal CG pioneered the use of digital rehearsal on an entirely new level for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Our advances enabled the director and production team to plan and rehearse in advance — purely in the digital environment — and use the camera and lighting set-ups directly in the ceremonies themselves. Witness the spectacle that Digital Rehearsal can bring to life, see the 2008 Beijing Olympics page.