NEWS AWARDS PREVIEW
BROADCAST AUDIO – sponsored by TEAM OF THE YEAR
CONRAD FLETCHER AND THE MIXBUS AUDIO TEAM FOR NT LIVE Sound supervisor Conrad Fletcher nominated his team of “outstandingly talented people”. The team (Fletcher, Dialogue Mixer Paul Stannering, Radio Mics and ‘Wig Liaison’ Tracy Cambell, Technical Guarantor and Ed Ferguson from the National
Theatre) translate a live theatre play into a full surround cinematic experience.
THE X FACTOR SOUND TEAM “Obviously the X Factor Sound Team should win this award!” writes Robert Edwards, Sound Director of X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent. Edwards’ team produces hours of “gold-standard” live-broadcast sound for ITV’s No 1 music show. “The audio challenges are huge, using over 90 radio frequencies
every week, blending reality and music television, along with star performances.”
THE BRIT AWARDS 2013 TEAM For the 19th year running, award-winning Sound Engineer Toby Alington mixed the live-to-air music from The BRIT Awards 2013. The UK’s largest annual music event was held at the London O2 Arena, and broadcast live in February. Sound designer Bruce McLaren and the Floating Earth crew worked alongside Alington to put the live-to-
air show together. Show ratings were reported to be the highest since 2003.
Copyright: BBC Image credit:BBC/Guy Levy
RED TX FOR STRICTLY COME DANCING LIVE AT WEMBLEY ARENA Strictly Come Dancing’s live Wembley Arena show in November 2012 relied on Red TX to work alongside BBC Studios and Post Production Sound Engineers Tony Revell, Andy Tapley and Richard Sillitoe, providing them with all the facilities they
needed to capture and broadcast the audio in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. FACILITY OF THE YEAR
GOLDCREST POST Over the past year, Goldcrest Post has won Oscar, BAFTA, BAFTA Craft, CAS, MPSE and MASA awards. Theatre refurbishments and
investment in new technology two years ago helped attract top sound professionals such as Adrian Rhodes who set up a new department.
HACKENBACKER Director Michael Samuels once again chose Hackenbacker’s audio post- production team to handle the audio post
for drama series The Fear, which screened in December. Hackenbacker was also responsible for the entire audio posting for the BBC’s Mr Stink.
Also on the shortlist… INSTALLATION– sponsored by
TEAM OF THE YEAR ∞ Wigwam Acoustics ∞ Soliflex Svenska ∞ Stage Electrics ∞ ‘Friends Arena’ team
PERMANENT INSTALLATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR ∞ L-Acoustics for Hollywood Bowl, LA ∞ Sonic Emotion for Aura club, Zurich ∞ Tileyard Studios London ∞ Funktion-One for Sochi 2014
www.audiomedia.com
TEMPORARY INSTALLATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR ∞ Optocore for Kuwait’s 50th Constitution Day Celebrations ∞ L-Acoustics for the Olivier Theatre, National Theatre ∞ Universe of Sound, Birmingham/Canterbury ∞ Sennheiser for David Bowie Is, V&A, London
LIVE/TOURING SOUND– sponsored by
ENGINEER OF THE YEAR ∞ Ben Hammond ∞ Antony King ∞ Jim Warren ∞ Ben Findlay
AFTER-SALES SUPPORT ∞ Mark Saunders,Sennheiser ∞ DiGiCo
∞ Soundcraft ∞ Midas
TOUR SOUND PRODUCTION ∞ Audio Electronics Mattijsen for the coronation of King Willem-Alexander, Amsterdam ∞ Capital Sound for Mumford & Sons UK arena tour ∞ Adlib Audio for The Script Tour ∞ SSE Audio Group for Jesus Christ Superstar
BBC S&PP
BBC Studios and Post Production opened its standalone post-production facility on Charlotte Street on 28 January 2013. The new HD-
based, fully tapeless facility gives BBC S&PP a central London launchpad to offer full-service post-production facilities to TV and corporate clients.
EVENT OF THE YEAR
ITV YORKSHIRE FOR THE LIVE EPISODE OF EMMERDALE, OCTOBER 2012 On Thursday 17 October 2012, ITV broadcast a 60-minute live episode of the popular soap. Chris Greaves (Operational Head of Sound, Leeds) says his crew of 14, plus 28 freelance sound engineers, worked together to produce a "flawless" audio
track complemented by superb pictures.
RIEDEL FOR THE RED BULL STRATOS PROJECT The Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner’s 120,000ft skydive from the edge of space was a mission that transcended human limits. For the production, Riedel Communications furnished the fibre-based video and signal distribution
systems, as well as the wireless video links from the capsule’s onboard cameras.
RED TX FOR SOUND OF CHANGE LIVE, TWICKENHAM, UK Red TX played a vital role in ensuring that the June 2013 Sound of Change Live concert at Twickenham Stadium was successfully broadcast to more than 150 countries. With its Red I and Red II trucks on site plus a crew of seven, Red TX had to cope with the complexity of the live broadcast as well as the
fast turnaround time between acts on four different stages.
SENNHEISER FOR THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST For the 58th Eurovision Song Contest in May 2013, a TV audience of around 125 million experienced the songs in optimum quality thanks to Sennheiser and MM Communications, the latter of which preconfigured and supplied
Sennheiser Digital 9000 wireless systems for the show.
EVOLUTIONS POST Evolutions provided post-production services to Boundless for The Apprentice and The Apprentice: You’re Fired. With 12 episodes of both
shows and two additional programmes (The Final Five and Why I Fired Them) it is a large-scale project with huge amounts of footage.
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