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From The Commonwealth Games to The Glastonbury Festival, live events are becoming ever more complex to produce. Jon Creamer reports on plans for some of the biggest UK events of the summer schedule


now expected to deliver, and also in terms of the way COVID has reshaped the events calendar and the technology and workflows in place to broadcast it. Over the following pages, Televisual reveals how some of the biggest events of the year will make it on to our screens


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ive event coverage keeps on getting bigger and better, both in terms of the amount of output producers are


Sunset And Vine had already provided host broadcast services for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow back in 2014 and again covered the games in Australia in 2018. Back in early 2020, it was awarded the Commonwealth Games host broadcast contract for Birmingham 2022. “We found out we’d been


awarded the contract the week after the country went into its first lockdown so that was a real boost at that time,” says Sunset and Vine md, David Tippett. But, says Tippett, planning had


been ongoing for some time. “The planning starts before you even win the contract, because you’re setting out how you would deliver it for the Organising Committee. So, once you’re awarded it, you’ve got a plan there.” And despite a large amount of tweaking post award “you certainly begin with a with a very comprehensive plan.” And despite the complexity


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of a major multi-sport event like the Commonwealth Games. The planning is done initially by a small team. “One of the strange things about a project like the Commonwealth Games, is that you start with a core team of about six to eight people and at games time, we’ll have about 1500 or more.” But that ramping up and growth “is not a linear graph, it stays very small and then, as you get closer to maybe six months out, you realise you’ve probably got 25-30 people on your team” and by games time “you’ve got all of your freelancers coming in, all of the crew.”


PLANS IN PLACE Tippett says that one of the “big tasks” early on is the “alignment of host broadcast and organising committee - trying to make sure that you’ve got the broadcast overlay and the games overlay on the venues and everything is all in tune,” particularly as “a lot of the


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