Mediapro Produces TV Spectacular as Liverpool Beat Spurs in UEFA Champions League Final
05/06/2019
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Saturday night in Madrid saw a 2-0 victory for Liverpool FC over Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League Final and the successful broadcast signal delivery of European club football's showpiece event by the Mediapro team on behalf of UEFA from the Wanda Metropolitano.
The UEFA Champions League Final is one of the most-watched televised sporting events in the world, with viewership greater than even the annual US Super Bowl. The Mediapro Group was chosen by UEFA to produce and deliver the host broadcast signal. Mediapro was also responsible for producing the host signal for the CL finals in Madrid 2010 and Lisbon 2014.
The dedicated Mediapro team of 290 people at the home of Atl tico Madrid deployed 42 cameras for the production including eight super slow-mo, two ultra slow-mo, two travelling cameras behind the goals, two ultra slow-mo Polecams, Skycam, five tactical replay cams, three beauty shot cameras, two net cameras, two cameras focused on fans in the stands, seven to cover the team arrivals and five tunnel cams to cover players entering and leaving the pitch.
The match was produced in 4K UHD and HD quality in simulcast, the second final after Kiev to be produced with simultaneous broadcasting in both formats. It was produced in HD-SDI 1080i50 and UHD (four quadrants), utilising a single dual format OB van. Dolby surround sound was available on the HD feed, while Dolby Atmos immersive audio was also available on the UHD feed.
Both UHD and HD camera output was used simultaneously, but the HD production feed took priority and was the primary deliverable. All format conversion, resolution upscaling and colour mapping was processed in the main vision mixer with simultaneous UHD/4K and HD-SDI outputs. All vision control and colour matching was done as for a HD delivery.
Mediapro audio engineering team in Madrid: (L/R) Mario Rodriguez de Miguel, Jesus Rodriguez Cerro and Sergio Rodriguez del Val
The host production operation was separated so that while camera shading and Lawo-based audio production was undertaken in the main truck, the vision production and EVS replays (16 units and 12 operators) were transferred to nearby temporary cabins in the TV compound. This provided two calm, cool and spacious areas for main match production team with director Oscar Lago and also the entire match replay team operation.
The Mediapro TV match director, Oscar Lago, also directed the UCL Final in Madrid in 2010. He has been directing Champions League matches since 2009 and La Liga since 1991.
The opening ceremony TV director was Daniel Lozano. He has directed the Real Madrid CF UCL celebrations in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018, has been a TV match director on La Liga since 2005 - and also directed Placido Domingo at Santiago Bernabeu 2016-2018.
We have nine OB trucks here, and for the international feed we have 290 people. And we are covering the pre-match show, which of course is not sports. We provide a director specifically for that show, specialising in directing musical show events.
Imagine Dragons performed live at the opening ceremony, presented by Pepsi. Following on from Dua Lipa's performance at the 2018 final, the 2019 opening ceremony featuring a further enhanced level of production for a UEFA Champions League final.
The first thing is that we need the best professionals for this kind of event, Mediapro CTO and operations manager Emili Planas Quintana told SVG Europe in the TV compound at Wanda Metropolitano. We are using Mediapro people from all parts of the world - Portugal, Argentina, Miami and obviously Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia plus some from France. We have a lot of special cameras working in UHD with the maximum quality required by UEFA, all supplied by Mediapro.
Of course we have people working on LaLiga and other leagues all over the world on a weekly basis. This is useful; but coordinating different people and different equipment from different countries for the same match is a challenge, he said.
Emili Planas Quintana, Mediapro, CTO and operations manager
In terms of numbers, an El Clasico (Barcelona vs Real Madrid) match is around 35 cameras and this is 42 cameras for the host broadcast of the international feed. The big difference is that we are covering pre-match with arrival of the buses as well, which required five or six cameras, plus the press room. We added another OB with more cameras for unilaterals and the multilaterals. We supply more OB vans for this match (than El Clasico) as the interest in this match is greater.
We have nine OB trucks here, and for the international feed we have 290 people. And we are covering the pre-match show, which of course is not sports. We provide a director specifically for that show, specialising in directing musical show events, said Planas Quintana.
This stadium is quite new; it's amazing to work here. Cabling is a little bit complex. For cameras positions the stadium is perfect, but for this event we are not in the regular TV compound [which is located in the stadium, not in the car park] so we needed to use new cables for each camera.
But in terms of lighting this stadium is perfect: all the lighting is new and it is all LED. These lights provide very good colour quality and intensity in the field. It's perfect for super slo mos and high-speed cameras because we have no flickering - perfect for this kind of production, he said.
Mediapro CL Final match director Oscar Lago
The biggest difference to the last time Mediapro produced the Champions League Final for UEFA is the UHD. This 4K needs to be produced in simulcast. It is not acceptable to produce with less cameras. UHD needs to
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