4Wall Entertainment built and operated three LED and virtual production environments for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, using Absen LED, Brompton Technology processing and Disguise media servers and virtual production technology.
The systems were created for a television newsroom, the film’s Wardex covert government facility and a 360-degree LED car process, with 4Wall providing virtual production supervision and Disguise programming across the three builds.
The Wardex set at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn incorporated ten LED surfaces built into the scenery, using Absen PL2.5 Pro panels. Five walls surrounded the room, including a central display measuring almost 40ft wide and more than 13ft high, with five corresponding LED ceiling sections. Content was managed in Disguise and processed using Brompton Tessera SX40 4K processors.
A separate newsroom set used an Absen PR1.9 wall driven by a Brompton SX40 as an in-camera weather display, allowing performers to interact directly with the displayed content.
For the film’s car sequences, 4Wall created a 360-degree environment centred on a 132ft by 16ft Absen PL2.5 LED volume, alongside a 24ft-square LED ceiling and additional displays. Disguise VX 4+ media servers played 16K stitched spherical plates, which could be adjusted in real time for horizon, perspective and scale.
Brompton Tessera SX40 processors were used throughout the project, with ShutterSync helping synchronise the LED displays with the production’s Sony Venice 2 cameras. Brompton’s integration with Pomfort LiveGrade also provided colour control across the LED environments.
“Virtual production is a vast toolset, and it was incredibly rewarding to use it to help shape the narrative and expand what was possible on set,” said Mathew Leland, VP of special projects at 4Wall.
