Some of the more prominent Ercolino Productions projects include:
Levi's
Union Square Flagship Store, San Francisco
The
$20 million store, which opened on Union Square August 6, 1999, is part theater,
part art gallery, part museum, part cinema and part rave. It features 70,000 watts of digital audio, a biometrics recognition
system, a 3D body scanner, and at least as many video screens as the floor
of New York Stock Exchange. It takes what Nike, Virgin and Sony have done
with their high-profile “mega” stores to a new level.
General
Motors Interactive Showroom, New York
An interactive multimedia showroom. Responsible for design, project direction and engineering, systems integration and implementation. The project showcased GM’s brands and automobiles. Each automobile was an interactive exhibit, including video and audio marketing elements. Visitors could ask questions which were answered by computer-generated databases, and take virtual “test drives” of cars via automatic video and audio environments that were triggered automatically by a visitor sitting in the driver’s seat. Technology elements of the showroom have been incorporated into GM’s corporate headquarters.
An interactive electronic and media canvas. Responsible for design, project direction and engineering, systems integration and implementation. The Guggenheim project involved one of the largest video walls in New York, with three 5 x 5 screen video environments side-by-side. The video wall was computer-controlled, enabling the ability to change audio and video sources on the fly, and included three surround-sound zones.
A $75 million project. Responsible for project direction and engineering, systems integration and implementation, and overall contractor coordination. Ercolino Productions was brought in to organize and integrate a variety of diverse vendor and design approaches to the project. The flagship “mega” store featured an atrium video wall, motorized screens, an advanced show control system, and a wide a variety of interactive attractions including an automatic foot scanning/measurement system.
This was a $10 million project. Responsible for systems integration and implementation, project direction and engineering, electrical wiring, and coordination. Virgin’s flagship Megastore included more than 200 listening stations and dozens of video screens.
An interactive children’s museum, highlighting Sony technology. Responsible for project direction and coordination, systems integration, and implementation of a design by Edwin Schlossberg. The museum featured nearly every high-tech product Sony produced. Login stations would commit to memory aspects of a visitor’s profile, including a sample of their voice and their photograph. These features would then provide an interactive experience as visitors navigated their way thought the museum. Interactive attractions included games and videos that visitors could edit. Visitors could be a newscaster or operate a camera. At the end of the museum experience, they would get a printout that chronicled the experience.
1994
Winter Olympics, Lillehammer, Norway and 1992 Winter Olympics, Alberville,
France
Ercolino Productions integrated the International Broadcast Center facility for Sony in addition to building several other systems including audio sweetening and the duplication and transmission facilities.