Foresta Lumina: immersive audiovisual and sensory experience in a natural environment

Convert a spectacular natural environment, no light pollution, in a magical world of light, audiovisual and folktale projections have been the objective of the Foresta Lumina project designed and executed by Moment Factory in the Parc de la George de Coaticook, the most famous in the Canadian area of Quebec.

The Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook, the main tourist attraction of the Canadian city of Quebec and its surroundings, it is crossed by dozens of trails through which they travel 100.000 visitors per year and has the longest suspension bridge in this region.

With the aim of attracting a greater number of visitors and offering other types of experiences, mainly during the afternoon-evening, those responsible for this park commissioned the multimedia specialist Moment Factory create Foresta Lumina, an illuminated track using the latest LED and display technologies to tour the forest at night in a spectacular and immersive way.

As a basis for this 'enchanted' world they would design for visitors, Moment Factory's creative team has been inspired by the legendary characters found in folktales from both Quebec and the rest of the world.. At nightfall, visitors explore the park's trails and areas at their own pace, experiencing a scenography with lighting and videomapping effects accompanied by an original soundtrack created for this project.

Along the 2 kilometers of the trail, which has been called 'the garden of desires', visitors, children and adults, they interact with the space by picking up a 'magic stone' and making a wish and then throwing it into the water of the 'enchanted lake', activating audiovisual effects of great impact in which fascinating virtual beings are also known that accompany visitors in an extraordinary adventure.

Most of today's multimedia experiences are in the urban environment. In this case, Moment Factory, formed by a team of thirty technicians who were joined by artisans and designers from the area, faced the challenge of designing and building it in a natural environment.

The team traveled to the place to know every detail of the park: the forest and its spaces, topography, the detours of the trails, that became the canvas for the immersive experience, adapting projection and lighting technology in the most natural way to the environment; hiding all wiring and technical appliances, so that visitors would only enjoy this magical space.

Moment Factory created personalized and sensory elements for each of the areas of the route: perforated retro-luminated metal panels with inscriptions describing the main characters, small lighting units designed to suggest the presence of fairies in the forest, a transparent screen for subtle projection into a forest clearing, a videomapping that transforms a dead tree back to life, …

One of the advantages of this spectacular natural environment is that it has no light pollution, so the company was able to work with much more precise and calibrated lighting effects, with systems ready to withstand changing atmospheric conditions.

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