July 2013
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“Home life can be chaotic … so the system had to be versatile, quick and accurate”
Clews, Twofour’s head of documentaries. “We hope people watching it will feel that the show could be about them. We’ll be around the dining room table of each of our families as they confront their latest dilemmas.”
Remote cameras The variable speed of the pan, tilt and zoom mechanisms of the Panasonic AW-HE50S and AW- HE120 cameras, under the control of a Panasonic AW- RP50 remote camera controller, meant that house members could be tracked throughout the house. Twofour previously used 64 AW- HE50 cameras on another reality series (Educating Yorkshire for Channel 4), which was a seven- week shoot at a school. For Minicams, it was important that, despite having so much equipment rigged in the house, the technology should be discreet — not just so that the viewers wouldn’t see it, but to put the families at ease. “We had to be responsive to the situation. We have an in-house carpentry team that can disguise – or at least minimise – the impact of the kit. We also developed a single core system for the power, SDI and Ethernet cabling to keep visible wiring to an absolute minimum,” says McLachlan. Video feeds were brought into
a For-A HVS-390HS 2M/E vision mixer designed for live production, which was selected for its high quality, flexibility and small size. The PPU, vision mixer and PTZ control surface were housed in an adjoining premises, along with: an OmniTek OTR 1001 video and audio analysis unit; CTP intercom/talkback panel; Blackmagic Videohub Smart Control panel; Evertz timecode generator; and a Dotec MADI interface.
Despite all this technology,
everything (PPU, cameras and audio packed into a compact, portable kit) can be run off domestic power, with no need for a supplementary generator or commercial electrical supply, even for the air conditioning equipment or ingest. The live feeds from the PPU were broadcast ready and optimised for ingest by Twofour. Each of the four streams of HD video with eight channels of embedded audio were routed into recording racks powered by the simply uprated domestic house supply. “Our experience in fast-
turnaround TV and understanding of the editorial demands of TV production
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“To my knowledge this is a unique production .... I don’t know of another show that has tackled so many locations in such a short time with 20-plus cameras” Nick McLachlan, Minicams
have been vital in developing the PPU. Mini-Rig can be installed quickly in any space very fast and with little notice,” says McLachlan.
www.minicams.tv www.twofour.co.uk
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