Paisley Abbey Lightshow - About Us – UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK [4K/UHD]

Take a thrilling ride through 13.8 billion years of life, the universe and everything in it.

About Us is the opening event for UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of creativity taking place across the UK this year.

The free, unticketed outdoor event will be at Paisley Abbey from Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 March (with a public preview on Monday 28 February).

At night, About Us will transform Paisley Abbey into a vast canvas combining awe-inspiring live projection-mapped animation with poetry, music, and beautiful live choral singing to create a unique spectacle.

Featuring poems and Scratch animations from young people in Renfrewshire schools, across Scotland and the rest of the UK, the 25-minute projection shows will immerse audiences in an exhilarating journey through 13.8 billion years of history since the dawn of the universe in a celebration of the infinite ways in which we connect to the cosmos, natural world, and one another.

Multiple live shows will take place every evening between 7pm and 9:15pm.

In front of the Abbey, a raft of freestanding plinths containing dynamic theatrical lighting and LED screens will offer the counterpoint of the human-scale narrative against the vast cosmic scale imagery of the video projection.

Acclaimed composer and musician Nitin Sawhney CBE has composed the original score which will be performed as part of the live performances by the Paisley Philharmonic Choir with musical directorship from Osnat Schmool. Sawhney has scored more than 60 films and his past collaborators have included Sir Paul McCartney and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Paisley is the first location on a five-stop UK tour for About Us.

This was the 3rd of 4 shows on Sunday 6th March 2022.

Footage taken using Tripod mounted Nikon Z6ii camera with FTZ Adapter and Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens. Rode Stereovideo microphone mounted.

Settings - ISO 10,000, F/2.8 and 1/50th second shutter using 4K mode.Vir