Countdown clock & effects for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book launch, Part 1- Waterstones, Oxford Street, London.
The countdown has begun to the launch of the most eagerly anticipated book of recent years- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. A custom computer programme was designed to display on a huge 63″ Plasma screen, simulating a train station flap-board, counting down the 15 days to Part 2- The Reveal!
Liasing with set designers, EMF also supplied set lighting, and a customized smoke effect, filling the window with puffs of steam every five minutes. 15 days from now at midnight, the train to Hogwarts arrives.