Three months before the presidential election, the campaign team of the Insoumis candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, wanted to strike hard. “In a hall, we are going to build a structure that can hold 3,000 people, a sort of cube 50 meters wide and six meters high, all of the walls of which will be screens on which 16 video projectors will project images in (definition) 28K “, described the LFI deputy Bastien Lachaud during a press conference.
“Immerse the spectators” in universes
“To this will be added 96 m2 of LED panels on the ceiling which will complete the immersion”, he said, “to immerse the spectators in different universes linked to the themes of the speech” by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who will be in “in the center, on a central stage”.
“The visual stimuli will be accompanied by a spatialized sound” and “natural scents” diffused in the room “as the speech progresses” in order to “project both our candidate and our ideas into the future we want as progressive and positive as possible “, also argued the deputy.
For the rebellious member Clémentine Autain, “thanks to this innovative and modern technology”, the 3,000 supporters of Mr. Mélenchon will be able “to feel emotions and our project of the world after”. In the first part of this meeting, which will begin at 2:00 p.m. at the Parc des Expositions de la Beaujoire, fragments of philosophical, political, literary texts and poems will be read by members of Parliament and of the Popular Union.
Already a meeting with holograms
Then Jean-Luc Mélenchon will intervene to “repeat the main lines of his campaign”, explained the member to the press. Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already used innovative technologies to campaign: in November 2020, he held his first meeting in augmented reality after having held a meeting in holograms during his presidential campaign in 2017.
The holograms will also be used again at a gathering scheduled for April 5 which could “be held simultaneously in seven large regions,” Mr. Lachaud also announced. Before that, Jean-Luc Mélenchon will hold two other meetings in January: the 19th in Strasbourg and the 24th in Bordeaux.