PHILADELPHIA — On his last stop in the U.S. before heading back to Rome, Pope Francis visited Philadelphia Sept. 26-27. DWP Live was there with video crew and gear to transform the look of the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a large-format projection.
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When Pope Francis visited the City of Brotherly Love last weekend, DWP Live’s video production team was there to provide the equipment and expertise needed to deliver a projection mapping show that formed the backdrop of Saturday’s Festival of Families.
DWP Live used (12) Barco HDF W30 and (12) Barco HDQ 2k40 projectors, collectively generating 840,000 lumens, and was projected across the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
DWP Live is a Middle Tennessee-based video production and projection mapping company that owns one of North America’s largest inventories of media servers and projectors.
Part of the World Meeting of Families , the Festival of Families was broadcast live and attended by over 1 million festivalgoers. Overseen by the pope, the event was billed as an international celebration of family, community and faith and featured a concert by Andrea Bocelli and other pop stars.
Santa Monica, CA-based production mapping studio BartKresa design — who produced the content and provided the media servers for the projection mapping project — hired DWP Live to project the show. Philadelphia-based event production company, ESM Productions , organized the event, which included more than 100 vendors, 500 theater lights and miles of wiring.
“Working within an extremely short timeline of 12 days, our team put all the gear together and overcame some very real logistical challenges, including transportation in a city that was practically shut down and the tightest security I’ve ever seen — and that includes past presidential events I’ve done,” said DWP Live President Danny Whetstone. “Our team pulled off a tremendous feat, projecting a bright, beautiful show that looked fantastic live, in wideangle television broadcast reports and camera shots.”
The Festival of Families included two days of speeches, celebrations and communion. Following Saturday’s spectacle, the stage was turned into a sanctuary for a Sunday papal mass.
In addition to the Philadelphia papal event, DWP Live experts were on hand 100 miles away in New York City to project a 10-minute animated show, which was used to help introduce the United Nations’ Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
The weeklong UN celebration and humanitarian awareness campaign featured a projection mapping piece on the north tower and general assembly wall of the UN’s New York City headquarters. The piece used DWP Live’s d3 4×4 Pro VFC equipped media servers and 16 Barco HDF W30 and 20 Barco HDX W20 projectors, and was filmed and used as part of Saturday’s Global Citizen Festival in Central Park.
