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OT - photo request: Project Planet
Tamas D.Varga 2007-May-22 15:15:00
This request is sent to the list by the approval of Donald Bain
Request ID: WPS170507
Request Date: 17 May 2007
Deadline: 15 June 2007
Request Subject: Project Planet - panoramic photo request
Client(s):
World Panorama Stock (WPS) and Special Event, a Budapest based event
agency is working on a unique project that has never happened before in
the Central European region in the field of panoramic imaging and
projection. Their client is a multinational credit card company.
Description:
Since 1992 every August a week long festival is held on the Shipyard
Island (that's Haj?gy?ri Sziget) on the river Danube in the middle of
Budapest. This is called Sziget Festival, the largest open air musical
and cultural festival in Europe. 400 000 visitors coming annually for
this event. During the seven days of the festival a large number of
world famous bands, cultural events and programs entertain the visitors.
This year there will be a project called: Planet. A hemispherical tent
(diameter of the tent: 18 meter) will be put up where a screen of 2
meters high from ground will be installed. The size of the screen: 55
meters long and 4 meters wide. This long screen will run around the wall
of the tent. A special projection software will be used to project 360?
panoramic pictures on this screen. The goal is to "exhibit" our planet
on Sziget festival, to show the various geographies of the globe.
Every day a different exhibition will be presented about each continent.
Sound effects, narration, and activities will be added that has a direct
link to the continent.
Themes for each day:
2007. VIII. 8. Europe
2007. VIII. 9. Asia
2007. VIII. 10. Africa
2007. VIII. 11. America
2007. VIII. 12. Australia
2007. VIII. 13. Antarctica
2007. VIII. 14. (On the last day an exhibition of panoramic
pictures will be held that had been taken on the Sziget Festival)
To have an outstanding project we're looking for partners. We need full
360 degree panoramic pictures in the themes above (Europe, Asia, Africa,
America, Australia, Antarctica). The applicant could interpret each
theme (continent) absolutely free.
Panoramic pictures need a lot of space, special technology therefore it
is difficult to show them in a regular art gallery. This tent will be a
perfect spot to show full panoramic pictures on an exhibition for really
large audience. The agency thinks forward. In case "Project Planet" will
meet the expectations and will be successful, the plan is to go for an
international tour with the images.
The panoramic pictures will be used only during the six days of the
Sziget Festival in the Planet tent.
The images will be slightly edited with some animation and light effects
added.
Specifications: based on the screen size mentioned above the final 360
degree image size used by the software is 10,250 x 576 pixels, but you
may submit images with sizes around 6-7,000 x 800 (or 1,000) pixels.
These pixel ratios may seem strange at the first sight, but this is a
compromise: the designers and technicians will adjust images to their needs.
Fees: credit will be given to the copyright owner of the image, but for
the usage period mentioned above no fee will be paid. Had my fight with
the company for the decent fees, but failed so far. It does not mean I
gave up.
Submissions: If you decide to participate in Project Planet you are
invited to create a World Panorama Stock account.
Please register at:
http://www.worldpanoramastock.com/photographer_signup.php
and give a short description of your background as a panoramic photographer.
After your registration is approved by the admin of World Panorama Stock
you can start uploading your images into a non-public, password
protected directory of 0_Planet_15.06.2007 which is at the top of the
directory structure.
According to the rules of WPS the submission is not automatic, every
image is reviewed before approval.
Participants may submit five images as a maximum.
Please do not upload your full size images for preview, but resize them
to 1,300 pixel width as maximum.
For all correspondence regarding Project Planet please use this e-mail
address: #removed# and we will do our best
to respond within two to three working days.
Participants of selected images will be notified by e-mail only not
later than 15 of July, 2007.
Finalists will be entered into contract with Special Event Ltd.
Best regards
Tamas D.Varga
WorldPanoramaStock.com