View Full Version : The Singapore Fireworks Festival 2004 - Part 1 (USA Team)


huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 12:51 PM
A brief introduction:

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Singapore Fireworks Festival 2004

Organiser:

UnUsUal Productions Pte Ltd
UnUsUal Design & Communications Pte Ltd

Date:

1st Aug
8th Aug
15th Aug

Venue:

Marina Bay

Ticketing Info:

Non-Gated (Open to All)

Description:

For the first time, an international fireworks festival is being held in Singapore. The festival will be held over 3 weekends (1st, 8th and 15th Aug). On each of these Sundays, a team from Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA will be providing a spectacular fireworks display, lasting 12-16minutes.

Complementing the fireworks festival will be a 16-day carnival, which will also feature outdoor concerts. This event is expected to draw close to 200,000 spectators each week, including tourists from neighbouring countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines Hong Kong, Brunei, Taiwan and China.

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SINGAPORE, 29th June 2004 – Celebrate our Nation’s 39th Birthday with a cracking display of sparks and sounds at the explosive Singapore Fireworks Festival 2004. Watch in wonder and awe as dazzling fireworks split the evening skies.

Be a part of Singapore’s first ever large-scale fireworks festival! It promises to be a grand affair never seen in the nation, complete with a vast assortment of fireworks and spectacularly choreographed displays.

Through a careful selection process, teams from the United States (Chicago) and Hong Kong have been identified as teams with choreographed displays most befitting this occasion. These teams have been responsible for many musically-choreographed displays for the most prestigious events in the US and internationally.

Lighting up the skies with night shell pyrotechnics such as Peonies, Gold Mines, Willow and Palm Tree Shells, Crossettes and Tiger Tails, these teams will also be showcasing special effects like stroves, comet strings, flashes and cross stars.

Adding to the festivities, there would also be 4 nights of Carnival Concert. Each artiste extravaganza concert night will be filled with an impressive line-up of international talent.

The carnival proper would be a gastronomic platform with more than 50 food stalls with an international fare.

There is also an amusement area with several new rides that have never been to our shores - Jumping Star is just one of the few.

The Singapore Fireworks Festival is one of several events lined-up under Celebrate Singapore, a month-long series of events taking place from July 30 - Aug 31 to commemorate Singapore’s 39th National Day.

With a host of events spread over Marina Bay, the Singapore Indoor Stadium and the Civic District over one month, Celebrate Singapore offers Singaporeans as well as visitors many different and exciting platforms/events in which they can participate and be a part of this year’s National Day celebrations.

“Come watch us set the skies ablaze and make it a nation’s celebration to remember with your family and friends from overseas. Celebrate our Nation’s Birthday with the hip and happening crowd at the Marina Promenade” says Mr. Leslie Ong – Event Organizer, Unusual Productions Pte Ltd.

Unusual Productions intends to use the Singapore Fireworks Festival as a platform for all Singaporeans and our foreign friends to celebrate National Day together. More importantly, everyone’s invited! Hence, from this year onwards, we hope the Singapore Fireworks Festival is going to be an annual event.

Said Ms Lynette Pang, Assistant Director (Entertainment) at the Singapore Tourism Board: “We are pleased to support the inaugural Fireworks Festival, which we are confident will give Singaporeans and visitors some thrilling action to look forward to over three weekends in August.

The Fireworks Festival is not only a fitting way to celebrate National Day but is also an event which holds much tourism potential. In the long-term, we hope to grow the festival to become an iconic event that will enhance Singapore’s positioning as the Events Capital of Asia, and a mainstay in our Uniquely Singapore calendar-of-events.”

The Singapore Fireworks Festival 2004 is a non-gated event which is expected to draw a 50,000 crowd on weekdays and 200,000 crowd on weekends.

For more details, please contact
Kevin Khor or Valerie Fong at (65) 6841 4555 or
email to kevinkhor@unusual.com.sg or valerie@unusual.com.sg.

The Organiser: Unusual Productions Pte Ltd

Unusual Productions Pte Ltd is one of Singapore’s top Events Management companies which specialises in bringing you the best events around the world.

Our expertise includes staging major events, world forums, concerts featuring such big names as Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Frances Yip, Jeff Chang, KRU, Fann Wong, Sammi Cheng, Air Supply, Westlife, Buena Vista Social Club, A1 and events such as Millennium at the National Stadium and the National Day Carnival 2000.

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Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 01 August 2004 2300 hrs

Fireworks festival lights up Marina waterfront

By Derek Cher, Channel NewsAsia

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SINGAPORE : The Marina waterfront came to life on Sunday evening with a spectacular display of fireworks. It marked the launch of the first Fireworks Festival in Singapore, part of the month-long National Day celebrations.

Explosions of colour filled the air for 10 minutes, entertaining the crowds gathered along the bay. Shell after shell was fired into the sky, choreographed to music. The fireworks were programmed to explode as low as 20 metres and as high as 400 metres.

The foreign fireworks teams were chosen from 22 entries from 15 countries. Tonight, it was the Americans who displayed their creativity.

This is the first of three fireworks displays that will light up the Marina waterfront this month. Over the next two Sundays, 3,000 fireworks shells will be shot into the sky, costing a whopping S$5 million -- all in celebration of Singapore's birthday next week. - CNA

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 12:55 PM
Rafflescity, Babystan03, Cw8 and me went to view the event, but not all of us had nice photos. I wasent taking photos myself..but a video instead. :D

As compensation, here are photos taken by hundreds of other photographers at the venue...

Photos taken by Tan Wei Te:

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More of his photos here:
http://www.repdetect.net/gallery/list.php?exhibition=39&pass=public&lang=eng

babystan03
August 2nd, 2004, 01:06 PM
This picture are jaw-dropping......:eek2::D

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 01:11 PM
Yeap. ;)

Here are a few views from the other angle at Benjamin Shears Bridge, pictures taken by Kam Wai:

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~kamwai/SFF/sff-5.jpg

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~kamwai/SFF/sff-1.jpg

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~kamwai/SFF/sff-3.jpg

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~kamwai/SFF/sff-2.jpg

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 01:23 PM
"Showers of Blessing" by gremlin.

http://photos.***************/pico/cityscape/singaporefireworksfestival2004/497_9729s.jpg

His album: http://***************/pico

View from Marina City Park by Alta98:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/alta98/SFF04/ADSC_4042.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/alta98/SFF04/ADSC_3998.jpg

CW8
August 2nd, 2004, 01:33 PM
I still have 24 shots to go. Hope to spend them all by this week and can develop by this week also. :D

eyetoeye
August 2nd, 2004, 01:44 PM
Wowzers! Those are awesome! I'm definately going this sunday.....

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 01:46 PM
By Gabriel Kang:

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heirloom
August 2nd, 2004, 01:56 PM
huh so nice... the second last pic like rain... :( i want to be there!

Matthieu
August 2nd, 2004, 01:57 PM
Nice pictures, those avatars, it looks like Huawei is talking alone in this thread.

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 02:00 PM
Agreed....love that rainy effect too.

Here is a smaller version by Nicholas Mak:

http://www.pbase.com/image/32048603.jpg

His gallery: http://www.pbase.com/nickmak

heirloom
August 2nd, 2004, 02:07 PM
we're all being singapore flags because its national day month :)

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 02:09 PM
For those wondering what the view will be like from the Padang, here are some taken by Jeremy Tan:

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More photos at source album: http://www.pbase.com/jer76/1st_aug_fireworks

heirloom
August 2nd, 2004, 02:12 PM
@huaiwei

did you go get pics?

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 02:16 PM
@huaiwei

did you go get pics?
I was very near to the main action, but no pictures from me.....its all in my video camera! :D

Maybe I can extract stills from it, and produce a video file to send to you guys? ;)

heirloom
August 2nd, 2004, 02:24 PM
upload it onto some server and link here?

CW8
August 2nd, 2004, 02:25 PM
we're all being singapore flags because its national day month :)


Seriously, don't mind me though. :D I'll put the flag up on my avatar once PAP is no longer in control of Singapore. :D

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 02:32 PM
Seriously, don't mind me though. :D I'll put the flag up on my avatar once PAP is no longer in control of Singapore. :D
:rofl: PAP dosent own the Singapore flag loh!

Anyway, those who spent lots of money to see the view from Swissotel are probably the unlucky bunch...the wind was blowing the smoke towards the north:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/caseytan/fireworks/IMG_2122_PS_411x600.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/caseytan/fireworks/IMG_2109_PS_411x600.jpg

baqthier
August 2nd, 2004, 02:35 PM
Great shots! :eek: Where did you guys stand?

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 02:40 PM
Great shots! :eek: Where did you guys stand?
We were near the Explanade.....too near to capture all the fireworks in one frame....quite unlike these lucky bums. :D

huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 02:43 PM
More views:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v382/CAMEDIA_SG/Image0005_web.jpg

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huaiwei
August 2nd, 2004, 03:10 PM
Some views by kiama:

http://photo.jchub.com/albums/fireworks/001_G.jpg

http://photo.jchub.com/albums/fireworks/002_G.jpg