Nov 18

A visit by The Pope

Posted by Ian Everett on Thursday Nov 18, 2010 Under Uncategorized

Media Centre Support for Pope Benedict XVI

Project Overview
Locations: London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham
Length of event – 4 days
Implementation period – 4 weeks

A very busy summer of planning saw The State Visit for Pope Benedict XVI in September 2010 with requirement for a full Media service to the world’s press on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

We assisted Feltech to produce and implement a ‘Journalist message service’ relayed on multiple plasma tv screens throughout media centres across the UK. The Satellite linked live images from the Host Broadcast pool feed, sometimes via helicopter, were mixed with cleaver switching and scan converting equipment displaying a ‘Heart speaks unto Heart’ Papal background image with Vatican and UK time embedded from an Internet source. A news message banner kept the press up to date with the Popes next location.

The interest from across the world was incredible with live coverage of the various meetings with the Pope, a very enjoyable project to be involved with.

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