Christie's projection technology gives the musical 'Franciscus' visual poetry and a high level of production

For the staging, they have been used 8 D12WU-H and two DXG1051-Q projectors that generate a total of 130.000 lumens and produce a resolution 20.000.000 RGB pixels. Four video servers are used to play the content., one for system control and the others as players to send signals to each projector.

1DLP projectors Christie They are having a leading role in 'Franciscus', the argentine musical, based on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, that triumphs at the Broadway Theater in Buenos Aires. The work has a technical display unprecedented in South America and includes a mapped scenography by 11 H and Q Series projectors, designed by the company Digital Projections.

Spectacular lighting resources are displayed for two hours, eight high quality simultaneous mapped projections, a live band, high acrobatics and a shocking costume.
More than 50 artists on stage, 12 live musicians, 40 technicians, seven wardrobe managers for 600 changes and thousands of stimuli to make this work the Latin American musical of the year.

“Franciscus was conceived from its beginning as a multidisciplinary show. In this sense, Scenic video is the resource that allows us to work on many scenographic aspects, but also narrative passages, cinematographic and musical. We believe that only with the use of this resource can we add dynamics and modernity to a story located between the Middle Ages and the present time.", explains Maxi Vecco, co-general director and scenic video designer of the work.

The project involved mapping the entire set, of approximately 480 square meters of projection on eight different levels. Two side walls that advance from the stage towards the audience, the embouchure, four levels of legs, a Peroni tulle and a break in the middle of the stage. Besides, A 12-inch LED screen had to be integrated into the mapping.×6,5 meters located at the back of the stage.

“The client not only wanted to map the scenery highlighting its depth, but also generate the illusion of a single screen on a single plane for the projection of several films, despite the different levels and angles of the surfaces on which it is projected.", says Laura Molina, manager of the Special Projects Division of Digital Projections.

Digital Projections designed the entire technique, from the generation of the templates for the deformation and adaptation of the videos to the mapping, until determining which projectors to use, where to install them, the types of lenses, what concentration of light was to be achieved, pixel sizes, how to calibrate the image to different projection surfaces and textures and how to synchronize the different video cues with the sound and lighting console.

Nine Christie D12WU-H projectors were used for this staging., with WUXGA resolution and 12.000 center lumens, y dos Christie DXG1051-Q, with XGA resolution and 10.400 center lumens. In the representation they are located on a pole at the height of the Super Pullman, and special supports have been developed to be able to mount groups of two projectors in tandem. Some projectors are used in portrait mode. In total they generate 130.000 lumens on stage and produce a full resolution of 20.000.000 RGB pixels.

“We recommend Christie projectors for their image quality, versatility in assembly and calibration software and safety in operation. The challenge was very big and we needed proven and reliable equipment that would deliver high quality reproductions.. Also due to the need to use some portrait projections and the client's demand that we offer him equipment of recognized international prestige”, says Laura Molina.

Four video servers are used to play the content., one for system control and the other three as players to send signals to each projector. With these servers it is achieved that despite having an LED screen and eight other different projection planes, the illusion is generated that it is a single screen.

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