Polonceau Railway Carriage Multimedia Installation by Pitch Creative Engineering Bureau is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Competition Category.
SilverCultural Heritage· 2021
Polonceau Railway Carriage Multimedia Installation
by Pitch Creative Engineering Bureau
Client: Russian Railway Museum
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Cultural Heritage Category
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About Polonceau Railway Carriage Multimedia Installation
Polonceau Railway Carriage is a multimedia installation created for a railway museum. The installation pairs a rare historical carriage with a multi-screen video wall that moves alongside it. The wall is 4.2 metres high, holds five screens and travels about 22 metres. The video shows the interior of a private premium carriage used by senior Soviet officials, including a kitchen, compartments, a drawing room and a study. Filmed scenes are combined with computer graphics, and the video is synchronised with the moving wall, so visitors see episodes that may have happened inside.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Polonceau Railway Carriage Multimedia Installation is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Polonceau Railway Carriage Multimedia Installation is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Polonceau Railway Carriage Multimedia Installation is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Museum Installation and Multimedia Experience Design
We create immersive museum experiences combining physical artifacts with cutting-edge multimedia technology. Our expertise spans motion-controlled video walls, historically accurate CGI, and interactive installations. Winner of international A' Design Award for cultural heritage innovation.
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- Unique Properties
- The installation combines a rare carriage named after a French engineer Camille Polonceau with a multi-screen video wall moving along. The video demonstrates inner space of a private premium carriage used by prominent Soviet officials. Historically accurate shooting is combined with CGI. Video content is accurately synchronized with video wall movement, so that a physical carriage standing next to a visitor a provides a glance at one of historical episodes that may have happened inside.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The height of video wall is 4.2 m, it consists of 5 screens and covers a distance of about 22 m. Ensured accuracy for the whole travel path is 1 mm. As visitors follow the moving wall within easy reach, the installation is equipped with an industrial safety system.
- Tags
- historical railway carriage, multi-screen video wall, CGI, costume shooting
- Production Technology
- Video content was created with chroma key technique for compositing filmed action and CG. For proper realism and parallax effect we needed moving camera with precise repeatability for a 22 m travel path. Camera was mounted on a moving video wall. According to filming script a special program was written to control camera movement.
- Design Challenge
- The main production challenge was to create content with chroma key technique for compositing filmed action and CG. For proper realism and parallax effect we needed moving camera with precise repeatability for a 22 m travel path. It was impossible to rent such system for studio floor filming, so we placed historically accurate decorations behind the other installation we developed earlier for the same museum. Camera was mounted on a moving video wall. Due to digital motion control system and unique project pipeline no further adjustment, movement program correction or content re-rendering was needed afterwards.
- Inspiration
- The Russian Railway Museum is one of the world's largest railway museums and keeps a vast collection of rare and legendary steam trains, locomotives, electric locomotives, railcars and other rolling stock. We have striven to create an authentic visitor experience complementing historical artifacts by modern technologies. Historically accurate video content immerses visitors into the past and enables to witness some episodes that might have happened. This installation was created on request, under supervision and with help of the Museum's exposition general contractor, The Art Combine for Museums & Exhibitions LCC (KMVI LCC).
- Project Duration
- The installation is available in the Russian Railway Museum permanent exhibition (St. Petersburg)
- Operation Flow
- Moving along premium carriage Polonceau visitors observe Vyacheslav Molotov, notorious Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, on his typical business trip. Inner space of the carriage presents a kitchen, lavatories, compartments for porters and guards, drawing rooms, a study and Minister's private compartment. The episode was recreated by one shot filming with custom high accuracy motion control technology. The video provides some explanations for interior environment.
- Team Members
- General contractor
Artistic endeavor
Architectural design |
The Art Combine for Museums & Exhibitions LCC (KMVI LCC)
Concept and Principal | Andrey Pazgalyov (KMVI)
Senior Art Director | Ivan Nikitin (KMVI)
Chief Architect | Rodion Pautov (KMVI)
Project Manager | Ivan Kuznetsov (KMVI)
Creative Director | Boris Kislitsin (Pitch)
Technical Director | Dmitriy Napolnov (Pitch)
Production Director | Maxim Chepukhalin (Pitch)
Project Manager | Danil Gerasimenko (Pitch)
Chief Engineer | Vladimir Makhnov (Pitch)
Designing Еngineer | Oleg Savitchev (Pitch)
Automation Engineers | Valeriy Kozhukhov, Alexandr Lukin (Pitch)
Multimedia Engineer | Sergey Pervakov (Pitch)
Art Director | Svetlana Golovchanskaya (Pitch)
Scriptwriters | Vadim Shtepenko, Liza Pejemskaya (KMVI)
Supervisor | Roman Kuligin (Pitch)
3d Artists | Rustam Arazov, Anton Khondoker (Pitch)
Filming Operator | Mikhail Vikhrov (Pitch)
Film Post-production | Frame Bakery
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