Project timing: 

October 2020: Begin planning
End of December 2020: Begin purchasing
January 2021: Begin site works (excavations, concrete foundations, …)
February 2021: Start LED Wall installation and other installation works
March 15, 2021: Start LED Wall calibration and testing
April 1, 2021: Stage is production ready, continue tests, first set installations
May 3, 2021: Start volume shooting for “1899”
Principal: DARK BAY GmbH
Location: Stage 3, Studio Babelsberg
Studio specs: 
Studio size 56 m x 30 m, height 14 m
LED volume (ellipse) 367 m², 7 m height, ROE Ruby 2.3
LED ceiling 253 m² (horseshoe)
LED gates 96 m², four separate movable parts
ARRI SkyPanel ceiling 162,5 m², more than 70 S60-C, more than 50 ARRI Orbiter
Server Room with 22 Lenovo P620 and 44 NVIDIA RTXA6000
Vicon Motion System and TrackMen GmbH
21 m revolving stage, up to 25 t load

ARRI services:

Technical planning
Coordination of 10 major installation companies
Coordination of technical purchasing
Construction site management
Lighting installation including more than 70 ARRI SkyPanels and more than 50 ARRI Orbiter
ARRI Mini LF camera package
Metadata integration into Unreal© Engine
Signaling backbone installation (network, video, lighting, sync, timecode)

Involved companies (in alphabetic order):

ARRI
Art Department Studio Babelsberg
Atos
Brinkmann & Wiehn
Faber AV
Framestore
Frontline
Megapixel
Nefzer
NVIDIA
Rittal
Setis
Studio Babelsberg
TrackMen
ROE
Vicon

For more information about DARK-BAY, please visit www.dark-bay.com.

Opening Image: © Alex Forge/Netflix