Wells Carnival 2018 - Behind the Scenes
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- Wells Carnival Day. A bit different that usual as I'm on the cart performing rather than road crew captain. The motors need a bit of tweaking, the cannons need refilling, a few bulbs need replacing, and of course the numbers need stapling, then I'm off the the football club to get some slap on and my pirate outfit. Then I need to find my sea legs as I go for a ride on Captain Morgan's ship!
If you would like to become a member of Globe Carnival Club based in Wells, you can email me at join@carnivalben.uk. Carnival is a fantastic hobby all year round and includes cart building, costume making, fund raising, make up artistry, choreography, model making, and lots of other things.
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Great vlog Ben from a performer perspective. I could see myself watching at the end by the sherston
Ah great, your in the video at last! I’m still going to sneak the Petherton clip of you into the Glastonbury video somewhere lol
Ha ha brilliant,looking forward to spotting us at Glastonbury then lol. I need a badge next year
Blimey that looks high up ahh I couldn’t do that. Be high up and on a moving platform two things stopping me joining a club and another great video as always Ben you ace them
High up is better for me! I love it :) thanks, glad you like my videos!
CarnivalBen oh really that surprises me and you welcome
Love your vids ben
Great :) Just editing Glastonbury video now, just done the bit where I gave you a badge. Should be up later or tomorrow.
Really enjoyed this, always look forward to seeing these in-depth behind the scenes> Fascinating understanding on how the lightening effect was done. Are you the first club to use software controlled LED effects?
Hi Les, no, I’m pretty sure Marketeers have been using computer controlled LEDs for some years now, and to a much greater extent. I think possibly Toppers carnival club do also. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Ben great vid again just wondering why the black out was again was it same issue as last time of somthing else? By the way cart looked great again
Yep, same problem as last time.
CarnivalBen ok 👌
how can you get a genorater that can hold that much movement
Science
We never see the generator getting refuelled, does one tank last the whole circuit?
We were using about 150 litres per carnival, and we refilled it every other carnival. I don’t show this in the videos as it’s done by the fuel delivery driver rather than a club member, and it wouldn’t be fair to film him doing his job.
@@CarnivalBen fair enough, thanks for info!
Hey Ben! Why only white light bulbs in the carts? Is it something to do with rules, or designers that love white, or are there really no sufficiently bright colored LED bulbs available?
P.S. Came here from Big Clive's smoke machine meltdown video. Subbed you.
There are no rules about bulb colour. It’s two reasons really, firstly it’s very difficult to find coloured LED 240v bulbs, but also because they’re expensive and we have a stock of bulbs that we use every year. It’s not worth us buying anything other than white because other colours would rarely be used again unless the theme is right. We have improvised in the past and put a coloured balloon over the bulb, that sometimes works well. Thanks for watching!
@@CarnivalBen Thanks for the rapid response! I'm in the USA and just learning of English carnival clubs. What a cool idea! If I lived there I'd be looking to join. Seems like a lot of fun and with my background I could actually contribute something useful to the construction and maintenance of the carts.
It’s great to be part of the carnivals. We generally only have these carnivals in the South West of England, in the Somerset area. And yes there is a wide range of activities that people can take part in, like costumes, painting, engineering, carpentry, electrics, vehicle maintenance. It’s great to hear that people in the US are watching my videos! I think “carnival” means something different in the US doesn’t it...?
@@CarnivalBen Yes, here a "carnival" is what I think you call a "fair". Our "carnival" is like a traveling temporary amusement park: some rides and some (mostly rigged) games, set up in a park usually, for a few days or a week. Then we have the "fair" that happens once a year at a dedicated location (the fairgrounds). The fair has rides and games (the "midway") but also lots of exhibits of everything from livestock to cooking to art... etc. This is California terminology, in other parts of the country the words may well have somewhat different meanings.
Yes, I thought it was something like that. I suppose our carnivals would be called an illuminated parade or something like that to Americans. Anyway, thanks for watching!
Hi Ben, any plans for more digital lights in future years? Was thinking that the clouds make a good testbed, if they fail they don't bring down the whole cart.
Yes, absolutely. Now that I’ve worked out how to do it so cheaply and reliably, I’d like to do a lot more... as long as the theme calls for it.
I love the fact you have a computer network running over the whole cart. That opens up all sorts of possibilities. Some of the stuff people have been doing with raspberry pi and LEDs could be really interesting on a carnival float.
I would have liked to have gone into a lot more detail, but I didn’t want to bore people. Normally DMX is used for this sort of thing, like in a theatre, but this is using a DMX over Ethernet protocol called ArtNET. Ethernet seems to be a lot more reliable than traditional DMX on a cart, probably because the network switches act as repeaters.
@@CarnivalBen I would imagine there is a load of interference on the cart from other sources which the dmx would struggle with. Thanks for the insight. I love seeing the tech behind the scenes.
Shame I live so far away, otherwise I would love to get involved.
If people are interested then I may do a separate video explaining how it all works. So how far away are you? Have you come to watch any of the carnivals?
i do carnival from seaton to taunton carnival
hi ben