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Cambodia. Produced and directed by Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin from Old Street Films, Enemies of the People will air on More4 in February.


FREEDERM SKINCARE IDENTS FOR BIG BROTHER


of a pharmaceutical company and is based around a series of interviews with research therapists, dietitians and dysphagia sufferers. Shot on two PMW- EX1s by Steve Scheuregger the DVD guide was filmed at numerous locations around the country with all post production, graphic design and DVD authoring in house.


AN IDIOT ABROAD Camera used PDW-700, PMW- EX3


Camera used SRW-9000 Production company Bray Leino DoP Michael Wood was impressed with the creative possibilities of the SRW- 9000 on this series of idents for Freederm. Using Sony’s S-Log Gamma he managed 11 stops of light sensitivity, thanks to the camera’s Super 35mm CCD sensor, putting the SRW-9000 in the same dynamic range as the F35. See page 19 (HDCAM Case Studies)


FOREVERMARK DE BEERS CORPORATE Camera used HDW-F900R Production company Crossfire This three week corporate video shoot for De Beers aims to tell the story of a De Beers diamond from “mine to finger”. Shot in Milan, Antwerp and Botswana, the team went for the HDW-F900R because of its reputation for robustness and flexibilty. The result was very high quality, detailed high definition images of the gemstones.


GAME OVER Camera used PDW-700 Camera supplied by Procam Television Production company So Television


A 26 part series for CBBC shot onto Sony Dual Layer Professional Discs.


THE GUIDE TO DYSPHAGIA Camera used PMW-EX1 Production company OneOne2 Media DVD The Guide to Dysphagiahas been produced by OneOne2 Media on behalf


Production company Mentorn Media This eight-part travelogue sees comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their colleague Karl Pilkington – a sceptic on the benefits of international travel – to visit wonders such as the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids and Peru’s Machu Picchu. The globe-trotting Sky1 series was shot on a combination of Sony file-based cameras shooting to XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX formats. See pages 16-17 (People Focus)


INDIAN TIGER


Mallard Productions This live multi-camera music shoot used a combination of XDCAM EX and HDV formats to capture the action. See page 10 (The Producer Gallery)


THE KRAYS BY FRED DINENAGE Camera used PDW-700 Camera supplied by VMI Production company Talent South The PDW-700 proved its worth on this documentary for Crime & Investigation Network with the programme makers impressed by the quality of the footage. The camera will be used again on follow up series Fred Dinenage’s Crime Stories. See page 9 (The Producer Gallery)


RED BULL BEDROOM JAM Camera used PMW-EX3, PMW-350


Camera used HDW-F900 Production company Grey Films India Director, producer and cinematographer S. Nallamathu went for the robust reliability of the HDW-F900R on this natural history doc shot deep in India’s Thar Desert. See page 20 (HDCAM Case Studies)


INDIETRACKS FESTIVAL


Camera supplied by Pro Motion Hire Production company Que Pasa Communications Red Bull has given some of the UK’s most promising musical talent the chance to perform at festivals up and down the country, including Download, T In The Park and Underage Festival, with the results recorded in HD by Que Pasa. According to head of production Mark Antonello, Pro Motion Hire’s versatile EX3s were ideal as the lense options and tapeless workflows worked brilliantly in a festival environment, where content production is at the mercy of the weather, bands and the location.


SHERLOCK Camera used F35 Production company Hartswood Films


Camera used PMW-EX1 HVR-Z7E


Production company


Co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, this remake of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. For DoP Steve Lawes, the F35 was the best camera for the job because of its 35mm sized CCD, ability to shoot in low light, plus top-quality 4:4:4 recording to HDCAM SR tape and the ability to use Prime lenses with the camera’s PL mount. Produced by Hartswood’s Sue Vertue, the 3x90-minute feature length films were one of the BBC’s biggest hits of the summer and Hartswood is currently working on a follow-up series.


TIME TEAM Camera used HDW-790, PMW-EX1


Camera supplied by Films at 59


Production company VideoText Communications, Picturehouse Television Channel 4’s Time T


eamstarring Tony


Robinson has taken its first step towards tapeless production with a three week stint of self-shooting on the PMW-EX1. See page 10 (The Producer Gallery)


WINE IMPORTERS UK AND CHARDON WINES CORPORATE Camera used PDW-700


Production company Studio Scotland The brief from this leading wine importer was to produce three promotional videos in English and French. The need for quality landscape photography to convey the right atmosphere led Studio Scotland’s DoP Steve Menelaws to use the PDW-700. See page 8 (The Producer Gallery)


WELSH CONNECTIONS Camera used PMW-EX3


Production company Bamboo Chicken Productions The shooters on this extreme sports film had to spend time dangling from a rope hundreds of feet up a sheer rock face and needed a quality camera which was both small and highly portable. See page 8 (The Producer Gallery)


THE X FACTOR Camera used PDW-F800, PMW-EX3 Camera supplied by HotCam


Production company Talkback Thames/Syco ITV’s decision to shoot the latest series of its biggest entertainment show on XDCAM required a rethink of the show’s entire production and post production set up, with 15 PDW-F800s forming the backbone of the new system shooting over 6,000 hours of material to Dual Layer Professional Discs at 50Mb/s. See page 25 (XDCAM Case Studies)


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