42 TVBEurope The Workflow WeFly: shooting up the skies
Last year five Italian OB companies joined forces to become a major player in aerial live broadcast. Mike Clark reports
AFTER Atest run on the World Cycling Championship in Florence (in September 2013), five Italian companies, each with in-depth expertise in a specific OB production sector, formed WeFly. Thanks to new European regulations, the group can pool its resources and take part as a single entity in tenders for important events, particularly in the sports field, where reliable airborne coverage plays a key role. Offering turnkey HD
production packages, the WeFly’s fleet includes three helicopters, two planes, and a wide diversity of outside broadcast vehicles
company comprising WeFly are: CGA, a business with planes and pilots and the necessary experience and certification for European airborne coverage; Fly Shot, owned and run by a pilot with 30 years’ experience,
providing logistical and practical organisation as well as procuring helicopters; Team TV, which is responsible for all HF/RF equipment connecting vehicles and intercom facilities (the company also provides custom
equipment able to track bikes from the helicopters and planes); Laboratorio Tevere, supplier of all equipment onboard the aircraft, such as gyro-stabilised cameras; and finally, Global Production which
coordinates facilities and production. Global also has a fleet of OB trucks that run up to a 30-camera HD vehicle. Davide Furlan of Global
Production reflects on the company’s work so far:
www.tvbeurope.com March 2014
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