Immersive visitor experience

Sovereign Hill

Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Production company –ThinkOTS

2009

Art Director

Designer

Awards:

AVIA – Special Commendation

Designed and built as a multi-sensory immersive visitor experience, ‘Trapped’ tells the story of the Creswick mining disaster of 1882, where more than 40 miners were trapped for 3 days before less than half of them are rescued alive.

As visitors move through an underground mine, authentically recreated to represent the construction methodology of the time, special effects suddenly catch them in the moment of the flooding.

As the aftermath is dimly revealed, the story of the disaster and how it unfolded is presented using an innovative 3 layer ‘peppers ghost’ and multi-media space with a reflecting pool as its central devise.

The audience can’t help but be emotionally drawn into this tragic story as they are surrounded by the voices of the trapped miners and their anxious loved ones, to the strains of a sensitive soundtrack.

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