Case Study: Colorado Office of the State Architect preserves Capitol chamber restoration history with Rocket House Pictures

Colorado Office of the State Architect documents 3 years of Capitol restoration with Rocket House Pictures

The Colorado Office of the State Architect required a production company to meticulously document a multi-year restoration project inside the historic State Capitol building. The challenge was to capture the entire process, including unpredictable discoveries and construction milestones that could not be recreated, all while working around the legislative schedule. They selected Rocket House Pictures to provide comprehensive documentary video production services.

Rocket House Pictures implemented a solution involving eight time-lapse cameras running continuously and a crew that remained on-call to film discoveries as they happened. They also conducted extensive interviews with the project's key participants. The result was a 32-minute documentary that serves as a permanent public record of the restoration. The film is now part of the Capitol's visitor experience, educating approximately 300,000 annual visitors, and it won the Audience Award for Best Short Documentary at the Intendence Film Festival.

Colorado Office of the State Architect