50 TVBEurope
News Review By Holly Ashford
www.tvbeurope.com November 2013
Great British Bake Offlights up with Stage Electrics: Stage Electrics worked with the design team at BBC2’s The Great British Bake Offto custom build a lighting solution for the hit TV series. The set for the show was rigged in the middle of a field, and Stage Electrics brought in BAFTA award-winning lighting designer Nick Collier to help design the lighting rig. It now sits in the roof of The Great British Bake Off’s tent, producing the same very even lighting for each series. “We’re now starting series five and have done all the spin-offs including Junior Bake Off, The Great Comic Relief Bake Offand Sport Relief Bake Off. It’s a huge success story for the BBC and a great bit of quirky British television we’re really proud to be involved in,” commented Stage Electrics project manager Russell Payne.
www.stage-electrics.co.uk
Telegenic trial Axon 4K in Brazil Working with Sony, Telegenic has developed a new Outside Broadcast vehicle, which was sent to Brazil to trial the acquiring and delivery of live 4K content. Trials took place at Estadio Mineiro in Belo Horizonte, one of six stadiums used for the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013. The matches are not planned for screening to an external audience and instead the trials, assessed the practicality of bringing 4K broadcast to future sporting events. The capture of 4K pictures requires up and down converters to complement Telegenic’s existing range of Axon interfaces, and Axon developers were able to create hardware and
software for a quad high definition converter.
www.axon.tv
Double success for Vinten Emmy-winning director Jody Eldred has praised both the Vinten Vision blue3 tripod system
and blueBridge accessory. Eldred specialises in shooting news, documentaries, episodic TV and unscripted programmes worldwide, and said of the Vinten products: “I generally don’t recommend that people use really lightweight heads for lightweight cameras,” said Eldred. “A lightweight camera and tripod system feels like you’re moving a feather, so everything, even your heartbeat is transmitted to that tripod and to the camera. It makes it difficult to do a very smooth pan or tilt, or even hold steady.” However, on a recent assignment Eldred paired the Vinten camera support equipment with a Sony EX1 camera and was able to smoothly pan and tilt while zoomed to nearly full telephoto with excellent results. The Vision blue3 weighs 15lbs.
www.vinten.com
Lawo wins Emmy Engineering plaque Lawo was awarded an Emmy Engineering Plaque in LA last month. The award honours achievements that exhibit a high level of engineering and are important to the progress of the industry. “I wish to thank all our partners and customers. They have always supported us and pushed us to develop products that better suit their needs and support their
ADVERTISER INDEX
Adder ....................................25 AJA........................................12 BlackMagic.........................5, 31 Blackmagic ............................37 Bradley..................................23 Bridge Technologies ................3
Canon......................................9 Cinegy..........................13, 15, 17 Cobalt....................................32 Digital Rapids .......................IFC DVS .......................................14 Evertz.....................................51
rapidly evolving workflow requirements,” said Philipp Lawo, CEO of the company. Lawo pioneered the use of telecommunication protocols such as ATM/SDH (asynchronous transfer mode) and now RAVENNA (realtime audio-over-IP technology), making it possible to distribute broadband audio in realtime over WAN networks thousands of miles apart.
www.lawo.com
Technicolor strikes back:Technicolor has provided post production colour grading and extensive VFX work for the latest installment of Emmy award- nominated Strike Back. The action series was graded by Technicolor’s principal colourist Paul Ensby on
Autodesk Lustre. Strike Backis based on the novel by ex-special forces soldier Chris Ryan and follows a covert group of MI6 agents that undertakes missions across the globe. “Filming mainly took place in South Africa and Hungary, but these countries stood in for a number of different locations,” explained Ensby. “The brief was to use colour and tone to create a sense of place so the viewer could quickly differentiate between each setting. We needed to maintain the show’s signature style, which emphasises a strong colour palette and vivid tones but also to offer a visual short-hand to the location.”Strike Backis showing in the UK now.
www.technicolor.com
EVS.........................................6 Harris.......................................1 HHB......................................39 Infortrend Europe..................48 Ikegami .................................29 ISE.........................................35 Lite Panels...............................7 Matrox....................................11
MediaGenix ...............43, 45, 47 Miranda.................................33 MOG......................................24 Multidyne..............................26 Panasonic ..............................16 Playbox ......................22, 41, 52 Servizi Informatica.................27 Snell......................................20
SSL.......................................40 TC Electronics ........................10 TV Logic..................................8
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