The venue’s 43,000-square-foot expansion is a media-rich exploration through the frontlines and home-front, as well as the political tactics and military strategies of World War II. Boston Productions developed and produced several signature presentations that bring stories from the Pacific War to life through archival video, dimensional animation, layered sound, and interactive media. A table map presents large-format animations depicting the tactics of some of the fiercest battles ever fought. Oral history kiosks located throughout the galleries allow visitors to hear the personal recollections. A dynamic three-screen presentation depicts the events of the brutal yet pivotal battle of Midway. Show-controlled lighting effects and an original music score intensify this dramatic story. To interpret the raging battle of Tarawa, BPI created a layered soundscape of the amphibious landing that captures the chaos of war and places the visitor in the scene. The exhibit’s Pilot House and CIC come to life with authentic dialogue, intense sound effects, lighting, and video. Visitors of all ages have been swept away by the dramatic and emotionally stirring media exhibits that put a human face on the Pacific War.

Designer: The Douglas Group

For this unique traveling exhibit, Boston Productions' certified technicians specified, prototyped and integrated a variety of complex AV hardware systems for a collection of diverse interactives and AV media exhibits that allow visitors to explore and experiment with the phenomenon of black holes. BPI linked these exhibits together with a custom network that enables the tracking of each visitor's activities with Explorer ID cards, so a personalized virtual scrapbook can later be downloaded from the exhibit's website, documenting images and interactive results specific to each person’s visit. The exhibit’s centerpiece is an immersive interactive experience, The Black Hole Adventure, where visitors find themselves seated in the cockpit of a space pod piloting around a black hole while on an excursion for an intergalactic vacation cruise. During their journey to find the wreckage of a derelict alien craft beneath the black hole’s disc, visitors participate in a series of fun activities, like laser skeet-shooting and space bungee jumping, and witness unusual phenomena caused by the extreme characteristics of a black hole. Visitors must complete the adventure and make it back to the vacation cruise ship on time, without crossing the event horizon and disappearing into the black hole.

Designer: Jeff Kennedy Associates

With four floors of exhibit space and eleven galleries, the Connecticut Science Center is wildly popular with visitors of all ages.  This critically acclaimed venue features dozens of multimedia interactives developed by Boston Productions.  From geosciences to genetics, this project demanded BPI’s diverse range of interpretive experience, technical expertise, artistic skills and creative vision.  Among the engaging interactive exhibits, visitors use a green-screen TV studio to record a customized weather forecast, which can later be downloaded from the museum’s website.  For A River of Life gallery, BPI filmed the entire length of the Connecticut River from a helicopter.  Using a spin-browser, visitors navigate at varying speeds from the headwaters near the Canadian border to the estuary at Old Saybrook.  Robust and fun interactives in the Sports Lab gallery allow visitors to improve their baseball and basketball skills, build a bike to compete in a cycling race or slide a body-scanner along a medical station to diagnose athletic injuries.  Having produced more than 25 hands-on multimedia interactives throughout the science galleries, BPI demonstrates that it’s all about the visitor experience.

Designer: Thinc Design

Once a quiet classic house tour, the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site is now a media-rich walk through history.  Boston Productions completely re-imagined the venue’s visitor experience.  The orientation exhibit transports the visitor to the 1901 Pan American Exposition, featuring a working hand-cranked kinetoscope and period arcade activities.  The lush exhibit space tells the story of the Gilded Age, culminating in the dramatic assassination of President McKinley.  Visitors move through historic rooms that set the scene for Theodore Roosevelt’s inauguration.  The immersive Issues Theatre features a 25’ printed scrim and layered images that are revealed through show-controlled lighting, depicting the historic themes that Roosevelt would confront during his Presidency.  In a recreation of Roosevelt’s White House office, visitors use a touch-screen embedded into the desk to sign or veto congressional bills.  The visitor can also e-mail home a customized newspaper that features his/her photo at the desk, along with a headline and article that names the visitor as the President of the United States.  BPI completed conceptual design, all AV software production and AV hardware integration.

Designer:  Trace Design Group and Boston Productions, Inc.

Through intricate theater design and riveting storytelling, Coacoochee’s Story brings visitors into Florida’s dense wetlands during the Second Seminole War. This extraordinary immersive theater tells the tale of a Seminole Chief who escaped from prison and a death sentence to lead his people to victory. Boston Productions combined vivid scripting, historical battle re-enactments, an original musical score, complex lighting design and computerized effects to create a unique and engaging visitor experience. The set incorporates rich imagery on layered scrims, video and projection screens nested in the scenery, large motorized turntables and trees dripping with Spanish moss. Complex theatrical lighting and strobe effects, dramatic video, large rotating objects and rich surround sound bring the theater to life as the story unfolds with dramatic intensity.

Designer: Christopher Chadbourne & Associates
Set Design & Fabrication: Jonathan Bean Design Ltd

Boston Productions produced all the media, databases and immersive experiences for this 41,000 square foot venue that brings the history, culture and action of college basketball to life. In the process, we interviewed more than 100 college basketball coaches, collected and archived thousands of images and videos, created massive databases and designed and executed environmental lighting and audio effects. Honors Theater, a high-definition, action-packed experience, takes visitors to the sidelines and the foul lines of some of the most exciting moments in the history of the game. If being on the sidelines isn’t enough, visitors can hone their shooting skills on the court.

Designer: ESI Design

Visitors discover the delicious legacy of Milton Hershey while exploring robust immersive and interactive exhibits that tell the story of the man’s groundbreaking innovations, the local community he built around a growing international business, and his generous philanthropy the continues today. Boston Productions provided complete turnkey services to design and produce all media experiences, as well as prototype, network and integrate all AV hardware systems in this extraordinary 10,000 square foot space. Here, visitors can design and e-mail unique Hershey bar wrappers, become the featured story on the front page of a Hershey newspaper, or build a Rube Goldberg-esque factory to make Hershey Kisses. In the “Explore Hershey” exhibit, multiple-users can access an innovative 3D virtual town model to explore inside individual buildings through 360° Quicktime VRs. Remote monitoring of the networked exhibits enables Boston Productions to provide updating and troubleshooting services remotely.

Designer: Gallagher & Associates