Digital Projection’s M-Vision laser projectors deliver a cinematic experience at the Astra Film Festival in Sibiu, Romania, a renowned annual event in the European film community. The festival’s highlight, Full Dome, a 300 sqm multimedia projection dome in Sibiu’s main square, provides a 360° audio-visual experience showcasing cinematic highlights.
NewMedia employed a set of six Digital Projection M-Vision 27000 WU projectors in the UK, chosen for their image and color quality, and brightness. These projectors adorned the entire perimeter of the dome, projecting onto the 360° screen with unmatched coverage, quality, and brilliance.
One of the main reasons NewMedia decided to partner with Digital Projection was the reliability of the projectors: “I’ve worked with several projection brands over the years, and Digital Projection is the one that has never let me down,” De Anna states. “Projectors are sensitive pieces of equipment, and events don’t treat them well. Between travelling to different countries and setting them up, it’s very easy to end up with last-minute problems. However, to date, I haven’t needed to repair anything or to change the projectors in the middle of an event.”
According to De Anna, the M-Vision projectors were the “perfect match” of projection power, manoeuvrability and light weight: “I found that the M-Vision laser projectors were perfectly manageable with three or even two people, helping enormously with the set-up and dismantling of an ephemeral event like this.”
The Full Dome hosted a diverse selection of films, spanning from documentaries to musical experiences, cartoons and movies showing the immensity of space. Behind the scenes, a ScreenBerry server was responsible for deconstructing and reconstructing the image to correspond to the dome’s appropriate mapping. From the server, multiple HDMI fibre optic cables connected with their corresponding projector and projected the image onto the internal projection liner, ensuring that the projection surface is as close to the screen as possible for impeccable quality.
