One Up Productions integrates 3D Projection mapping for stage design at wedding

One Up Productions has brought the latest technology of video mapping for stage design in India in a wedding event they executed recently.
The technology which is mainly used for monument projections and museums was adopted by the agency by fabricating a structure using cubes. After going through a series of designing process the agency finalized a structure onto which projection mapping needed to be done. This type of mapping on such a big structure for a social function has never been used in India and is most definitely a benchmark in the event industry.



One Up Productions used 2x2x2 feet of cubes to build the 10 feet high structure with a width of 22 feet and 7.5 inches. The structure was placed at a height of 6 feet from ground level. The structure was in a pyramid shape and hence the content was developed best suiting for the specially designed structure. The designers prepared contents such as waterfall, underwater, forest, cubical animations and other 3D animations.
Watchout software from Dataton was used for the scaling and content mapping onto the specially designed structure. This software interacts with the projectors and help to get the desired image onto the surface of that object. Both video and audio feeds are recorded onto its timeline which can be streamlined according to the sequence of the show run.




The agency also placed sharpies along the cubes in an attempt to make it look more attractive. It took a night before the actual start of the event for programmers to align and scale the entire mapping onto the structure.
Two Christie DLP projectors of 20,000 lumens each were used to have a high intensity as the projection is executed along with other specialized lighting and not a dark isolated place. The projection angle and the throw distance also needed to be fixed beforehand to build the content for the projection.
Talking about the introduction of 3D mapping technology Siddhartha Mallik Senior Manager One Up Productions said, “It was an idea we adopted after watching a youtube video of a club party in New Zealand. Luckily, we found a client who was willing to experiment technology at a pre-wedding function. It took us one and a half months to come up with the structure and it is definitely for the elite clients. The concept is different and expensive from other technologies and we look forward to now experimenting more with it. “