The Golden Jubilee Light and Fireworks Extravaganza at Buckingham Palace was performed before Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the 3rd of June 2002 and viewed live by 1.2 million people in London and by 200 million worldwide on Television. The event was Produced by Sir Major Michael Parker with Executive Production by Alan Jacobi for Unusual Services Limited.
The fireworks were designed by Wilf Scott, the sound was designed by John Del Nero with projection by Ross Ashton of The Projection Studio. The Son-et-Lumiere utilised 50 searchlights on the Palace roof alongside 16 searchlights and some three hundred intelligent and conventional lights in front of the Palace and around the Queen Victoria Monument with lighting and festooning along the entire length of the Mall including the floodlighting of Admiralty Arch.Durham commented at the time.
“The day of the show arrived and as the cutaways from the evening Rock concert, lit by Patrick Woodroffe and Mark Kenyon, started to reveal the rich colour washes on the Palace and the white striped crowd and lit flags along the Mall we knew that we were into something special, and that it would soon be time to lift the bushel. The show went exactly to plan, all the cues were heard and not one piece of equipment failed, a testimony to the proficiency of the crews who had realised the design, by which all lighting designers stand or fall.
Photo credit
Photos by Louise Stickland courtesy of Unusual Services Limited
”The lighting and projection caught everyone by surprise and it did seem to integrate into the fireworks as I had hoped, the rest as they say is history, but the coverage in the Press over the next week was astounding, my favourite being the headline in the Daily Mirror…"
