IBM is not only a globally integrated enterprise operating in over 170 countries it is also the world's largest IT and consulting services company, IBM is a global business and technology leader, innovating in research and development to shape the future of society at large. And we were invited to shoot some interviews here in Manchester for IBM’s USA and European head honchos. A small set up with some perfect lighting, cue make-up and action! Voila one great interview. Easy!
By Robert
This month we’re looking at Green Screen and Blue Screen Filming. To get the best ‘Key’ from the Blue or Green Screen setup requires a combination of accomplished lighting and accurate lighting ratios, together with a Camera record format that will deliver the best chromakey from the format signal processing. On the face of it, lighting a small or large Green Screen area might seem simple, except the lighting has to be even, preferably within a tenth of a stop and at a ratio to the subjects filmed. So why not call in the experts who know the green screen scene.
North Yorkshire, in the rain, in a potato field, Why not? There are no limits to our above and beyond attitude.
We were enjoying a day out with our wonderful client Bladonmore, discovering the technologies behind environmental biodegradable packaging that keeps our food fresh and safe to eat. We learnt the ins and outs to the production line and met some of the masterminds. One of our ‘A’ Teams was there to complete the story with DVCAM, and imaginative lighting bringing mushroom fungi and potato tubas to life!
Andrew passed down his talent as he bigged up his team to win this year – and even wrote all over the kitchen’s white boards ‘The Calendar Girls to Win’ as he thinks a saucy calendar shot in his kitchen featuring his star girls would sway this year’s judges. He created their very own chef whites later to be coated in his trademark diamantes to sport during the Cook Off here in Cheshire.
We scoured the exterior grounds and got some stunning time-lapse footage with our EX3 camera at sunset. The 30ft Jimmy Jib pictured below captured magnificent shots of the castle and pieces to camera, we even dismantled it and brought it into one of the western towers over the drawbridge. Our other crews were carefully positioned to capture anything ‘unusual’. As the night went on and the night vision cameras came out, strange things started to happen and we separated the team and ventured deeper into the castle’s heart, the psychic felt the need to leave at midnight but we proceeded on. Some of our crew even spent the night in the dank dungeons, and then suddenly…
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Interviews with new team members, live broadcast big screens in the heart of SportCity, lucky Golden Seat competition winners & a cup of coffee with Moonchester, all in a day’s work.
We have been busy supporting the Blues helping create their exciting live show at all their home games. Working along side Endemol Sport we are very privileged indeed to be working at such a winning club. A great start to the season has boosted Man City into second place on the Barclays Premier League Table with a fantastic 14 points.
Jô, or João Alves de Assis Silva was in the spotlight after scoring a terrific goal at Manchester City, his first in almost two years in their Europa League victory over Red Bull Salzburg. We popped across to
the training ground to catch up with Jô in an interview about his life at City. He told us how he wants to proceed to help City become the champions and continue scoring goals as a striker!
We even caught up with Emmanuel Adebayor for an interview earlier this month. City’s manager, Roberto Mancini is also always at the end of our lens for a Live interview before the match kickoff giving us his prediction.
So the season is off to a great start and the live shows have been full of familiar faces such as the talented Chef, Marco Pierre White who dished up burgers whilst we chatted at the Blue Moon Cafe. Most exciting however was the arrival of Royalty in the form of his highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi and owner of Manchester City and of course not to forget Moonchester and Moonbeam who we always manage to catch up with during the day – they’re certainly very happy mascots at the moment :)
We know that having the correct format for our clients is a key aspect of our service and as times are changing and shooting on digital is becoming a rapidly increasing requirement we want to reassure you that we can deliver.
Time spent digitizing footage can be a long and painstaking part of post production.
We have invested in our new EX-3 Camera, enabling us to copy the footage to external hard drives at the push of a button and know all of the scenes captured throughout the day will effortlessly pop up in FCP or Avid ready for the edit. It takes just minutes to upload high quality HD footage which is a great benefit of the digital era.
Lots of websites have different players installed, which require films in specific sizes and formats to achieve the best quality playback, and we can provide the footage in any format required. Of course we still shoot on tape HD, XDCAM HD, HDV, Digibeta, and DVCAM. We just like to offer a wide choice to you all!
A local debate has been the talk of the town recently when Gold National Events had a citywide event cancelled by Manchester City Council reneging on their contract signed days earlier.
Company director Mike Forrester has won a legal battle after the city council cancelled his Bob Marley Tribute Festival. MCC granted permission to stage the event in central Manchester though later withdrew, claiming they were acting on police advice.
The concert was set to have an estimated audience of 15,000. We accompanied Mike to film his hearing and provide Web exposure.
We were very excited to be invited back on set at the Hollyoaks village at Lime Pictures this month where we helped film for their second series of ‘The Hollyoaks Music Playlist Show with Matalan.co.uk’
With a great list of acts to date including Diana Vickers, Tinie Tempah, Basshunter, The Hoosiers and even Craig David we were delighted to be part of the shoot.
During a full day on Set we filmed Links for the show, met some of the all-new Hollyoaks cast and had a really fun day!
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As well as updating our shiny new website we have decided to join You Tube where we will upload regular clips from some of our most recent projects.
We have uploaded some of our Time-lapse work and of course our Reel, and we’ll regularly pop on some of our footage from little shoots here and there for you to take a nosey at –
You can find us under ‘BroadcastTVLtd’ and follow our updates by subscribing to our feed!
http://www.youtube.com/user/BroadcastTVLtd?feature=mhum
By Robert
No Limits…
Take a moment to consider that with the technology solutions available today the achievements and individual looks to our programmes are only limited by our creativity, the technology we choose to employ, and ok, to an extent the budget. But there are workarounds! We put time into getting it right and to putting the money on the screen. Our efforts include the supply of single-camera, multi-camera, Live OBs, hidden-camera, timelapse filming, photography, autocue solutions, and makeup artists. We can tailor the package for you and seamlessly project-manage. We’re just a phone call and a friendly chat away…and with no limits
From one Premiership team’s home ground to another! After the Europa League game at SportCity we took a day out at Old Trafford’s Theatre of Dreams to work alongside our regular client Straker Films to film a promotional video for Motability.
Hosted at Manchester United’s Old Trafford, the Motability Day is a big corporate event dedicated to bringing together and showcasing the latest adaptations and technology to help disabled drivers or their passengers travel independently and in style.
For the first time, Brands Hatch welcomed the Superleague Formula, which we were thrilled to cover. This is one of the world’s most iconic motor racing venues and plays host to some of the biggest international events on the calendar in 2010.
Robert operated on one of the many live cameras covering the event.
First used for grass track bike racing in 1926, Brands Hatch is a firm fans' favourite and has been the scene of some momentous occasions in motor racing history - from Ayrton Senna's first ever car victory and Nigel Mansell's first Grand Prix win, to the first-ever British Touring Car race.
After a very excitable Open Training Day at Manchester City stadium revealing the all-new kit, the blues had a roaring success in their opening friendly against Valencia at the beginning of the month with a 2-0 win. Our next day at SportCity saw the spectacular 3-0 win between MCFC and Liverpool, and in the Europa League, a 2-0 win against Timisoara.
We’ve been dashing around the stadium with a team of RF radio cameras providing Live coverage for City’s brand new Live Show at each Home Game with Presenter pieces and celebrity interviews – in addition to the match coverage experience that is! And, our very own sparkling new EX-3 has been filming the well-loved Golden Seats Winner sponsor films for each Home Game, where a lucky fan is whisked off by the Etihad Airways Taxi to the grounds where they enjoy all of the perks, star hospitality treatment and top-notch seats at the match. This is an ongoing popular feature at the club and an exciting opportunity for the doting fan.
With the season off to a winning start we are feeling very optimistic about the Cup returning to Manchester at the end of the season, come on you Blues!!
Remember that iconic moment where a greased up Bruce Willis battles his way through a ventilation system in Die Hard with only a Zippo lighter to guide his way, well we decided to recreate this scene with a twist and our very own Angelina Jolie look-a-like, and a more contemporary look.
How we set the scene:
With a long metal tube and a right-angle bend section, we blocked this up in studio. With some carefully placed lighting and special lighting fixtures we were ready to shoot.
The photographs were taken with a Canon EOS-7D and professional L-Series Lenses.
We filmed the scene on Digibeta and incorporated the rushes into FCP via ProRes422 codec.
The EX Format continues to be a worthy addition to xdcam HD. So much so that with the increasing demand from our clients we just had to invest in a brand new EX3 Camera Kit!
File-Based Media Shooting can be so simple, and has advantages of being readily available to edit.
Whenever we film for you on the EX format, we can arrange to transfer the footage to a portable external hard drive of your choice. Job done!
The Lloyds TSB banking group have been holding regular summits including two conferences at Halifax and Hull, which we travelled up to film for them.
The National Mortgage Managers Conference in Hull featured presentations from the nations top mortgage managers.
The Halifax conference was held and presented by Mark Fisher Director of Group IT and Operations at Lloyds Banking Group plc. Bankers from all over the UK within the group attended this prestigious event.
During a two-day shoot at their Flagship High Wycombe restaurant, chefs eagerly prepared their new menu for unveiling to our cameras. Their new range of buffet food is set to be unveiled in the autumn and our brief was to film the in-house commercials for their campaign. The commercials will be rolled out to various key sites and shown continuously on plasma screens.
We chose to shoot the project on Digibeta to capture the texture of the foods, and we employed our specialist lighting skills to enhance the appetising nature of the food
By Robert
File-Based Workflow
Although Tapestock and Optical Disks often offer the most convenient storage mediums still, we can offer a range of file-based rushes transfers on hard disk from XDCAM HD, EX, Digibeta, HDV and DVCAM delivered as QuickTime files at ProRes422.
When we provide this service, for your peace of mind we’ll keep a backup drive or the original material for you for a limited period.
We have been busy filming around the UK with Glasshead for a new Teachers TV Programme on Great Lesson Ideas in Science. The focus was on practical and inspiring science demonstrations and experiments as they discussed the trials and improvements of teaching practices.
Chemistry, Biology and Physics are certainly getting a big makeover in the classroom.
We are really proud to regularly work on a wide variety of Teachers Television educational programmes it certainly keeps us top of the class!
The Relentless Wakestock joined the World Wakeboarders series this year and had the best wakeboarders on the planet confirmed, they included current Wakestock champion Nick Davies and legend Randall Harris.
There was a great line up at the three day festival on the open air stage which included live performances from Feeder, Plan B, The Ting Tings, Robyn, Maximo Park, The Future Heads and N-Dubz to name a few.
The event was captured live by Robert, Gregg and Alan, as well as several other camera operators on the multi-camera OB and broadcast live on S4C all over Wales.
Robert was lucky enough to be back stage for most of the time to film live interviews with the headline performers at this year’s festival.
We have transformed the Broadcast Television Facilities website and are continually improving and updating our work online. We have begun by creating an all-new showreel and have uploaded other examples of our specialist time-lapse photography skills as well as our recent corporate hospitality commercial shot at Manchester City Football Club.
Robert has been out with our shiny new Canon EOS 7D Camera and we have uploaded lots of his handiwork for your viewing online. We also have the latest Bowens Flash Units for commercial photography requirements. We are all set to become blogging and keeping you regularly updated with our work as we are travelling around on different projects.
You can download our crews CV’s as well as pick up a Rate Card for our equipment and crew all at the push of a button. We have improved everything so you can get all the information you need without fuss. But don’t forget we are only on the other end of the phone and always happy for a chat on any advice you need.
Take a look at www.broadcast-tv.co.uk
