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Documenting the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour Aircraft
Specialist time-lapse support for production companies
The project
In December 2025, Boden Ryan was commissioned by production company The Social to provide a four-camera time-lapse setup documenting the transformation of an Airbus A320 for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola.
The aircraft, operated by Titan Airways, was being completely transformed by Airbourne Colours at its facility at Teesside International Airport.
Once finished, it would carry the original FIFA World Cup Trophy, along with press, VIP guests and representatives from FIFA and Coca-Cola, on a 58-day tour visiting 33 destinations across 29 countries. Our job was to capture the transformation.
Four cameras, running continuously
The aircraft repaint took place over nine days, with work continuing around the clock and over the Christmas period.
We installed four time-lapse cameras at different positions throughout the aircraft hangar.
Two provided views along the sides of the aircraft, another covered the tail, while the fourth was mounted high above the front of the aircraft.
This overhead position ultimately provided one of the strongest views of the transformation.
One less thing to manage
The cameras were installed using scissor lifts and clamped directly to suitable parts of the hangar structure.
With no convenient mains power at the camera positions, each system operated from our own custom-built battery packs. All four cameras were set to shoot at one-minute intervals, 24 hours a day.
The relatively short interval was important because the painting process could move quickly, and we didn't know precisely when different stages of the work would take place.
Nine days of work captured minute by minute
Remote uploads allowed us to check the cameras throughout the project and make sure all four systems remained operational.
The A320 received a complete nose-to-tail transformation into the distinctive red, black and white Coca-Cola World Cup Trophy Tour livery.
There was very little margin in the schedule. Once the aircraft was finished and had passed its final checks, it needed to leave the hangar almost immediately.
Within minutes of the work being completed, preparations were underway to get the aircraft back into the air.
That made reliability particularly important. There wasn't an opportunity to recreate any part of the process once it had happened.
Once filming was complete, the cameras were removed and the time-lapse sequences processed and supplied to The Social.
The footage was used for promotional material documenting the aircraft's transformation, as well as providing archive material from the project. On 2 January 2026, the finished Titan Airways A320 began its role on the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola.
For us, it was a relatively short time-lapse project, but one where the combination of multiple camera positions, independent battery power and remote monitoring allowed a fast-moving, one-off process to be captured continuously from start to finish.
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