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Live From MLB at Field of Dreams: Fox Sports Returns to Iowa for Cinematic Feast for the Eyes

11/08/2022

Live From MLB at Field of Dreams: Fox Sports Returns to Iowa for Cinematic Feast for the Eyes Drones, cabled cam return as Polecam and RF Sony F5500 join cinematic image-capture lineup By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital

Thursday, August 11, 2022 - 1:45 pm

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If it ain't broke don't fix it.

That's the mantra that Fox Sports is taking into this second installment of the MLB at Field of Dreams game (Thursday, 7:00 p.m. ET, Fox) from the site of the iconic 1989 film set in a small-town cornfield in Eastern Iowa.

Fox Sports returns to MLB at Field of Dreams on Thursday night with more than 30 cameras prepared to capture and deliver a cinematic viewing experience from the iconic movie site. Among those cameras are this new P50 robo peeking out from the cornfield just off first base.

So much went right for both Fox and Major League Baseball last year in an event that earned Fox the 2022 Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Special. Pleasant weather served as a comfortable backdrop for a wild finish (complete with a walk-off home run). That being said, a lot of the creative choices that both entities made put them in a position to succeed: from the sprawling corn stalk-filled outfield to the cinematic aerial shots and the memorable pregame ceremony.

There's a new story to tell - one more focused on the nostalgia of old-time baseball - this time around, but, in terms of the production and operations plans, here in Dyersville, there's a lot that's familiar.

I think that we and MLB got a lot of things right last time and, obviously, we got very lucky, says Michael Davies, SVP, field operations, Fox Sports. We got lucky with the game's moments. We got lucky with the weather. It was all fantastic. Because there was so much that we got right, we didn't need to change a whole lot in terms of the coverage, and, for that reason, we didn't.

Sony F5500 Goes Handheld; Polecam Joins Storytelling Arsenal Were there lessons learned from 2021? Were there opportunistic tweaks made to improve this year's production? Of course.

This year's truck compound is bigger and uses the available space more sensibly; Game Creek Video Encore and 79 trucks made the trip after supporting the broadcaster's work at All-Star Game in Los Angeles.

Some tweaks were made to the camera lineup as well to give more cinema-style images. Also, certain cameras were repositioned because the corn stalks at the venue are about 3 ft. shorter than they were a year ago.

The game production features more than 30 cameras, including four super-slo-mos shooting at 6X. Additions include an RF Polecam in the outfield and the Sony F5500, which, for the first time on a Fox show, will be used as an RF handheld.

The 2022 MLB at Field of Dreams game pits the Chicago Cubs against the Cincinnati Reds at a custom-built field in Dyersville, IA, on the site of the 1989 movie.

Last year, Fox Sports erected a tower camera, similar to those used on a golf production, in the outfield, but wind issues and a lack of flexibility in what the camera could capture led production and ops to scrap that and go with the Polecam this time around. With the shorter cornstalks, Fox expects to use that unit more liberally for establishing shots coming in or out of breaks.

As for the F5500, a 4K-capable camera system unveiled by Sony last October, the MLB on Fox team has been finding ways to work the system into different locations to give a cinematic shallow-depth-of-field look to traditional broadcast-camera positions. At the MLB All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, the crew got great shots from it as a hard camera on the first-base line. The MLB at Field of Dreams game marks the first time that Fox will try the system as a roving RF handheld.

Much like the MLB All-Star Game in Los Angeles, this show was a fully Canon show as it pertained to the lineup of lenses. Sprinkled throughout the park were the DIGISUPER 122x, DIGISUPER 111x, DIGISUPER 95x, DIGISUPER 22x, and the CINE-SERVO 17-120mm.

MORE: Live From MLB at Field of Dreams: Fox Sports' Studio Crew Lowers Outfield Set To Show Off the Cornfield

The tech-productions team - headed by Lead Technical Producer Tom Lynch and anchored by Sid Drexler, Brian Obert, and Taihe Miller - is deploying two of its signature Dirtcams, this time adding one in the pitching mound to accompany their consistent look just off home plate. There are also looks from Dreamchip cameras in each bullpen as well as a robo peeking out of the corn just off first base.

We have a lot of ability to continue to tell this game's story as a movie, says Brad Cheney, VP, field operations and engineering, Fox Sports, who is working with Director, Field Operations, Francisco Paco Contreras on this year's engineering plans. To be able to pull yourself back and forth between the cinematic and venue within the game itself is great.

Aerial Imagery Reclaims Its Star Status One of the stars of last year's show was the aerial imagery. With a fixed-wing plane (provided by Winged Vision), a small fleet of drones (Beverly Hills Aerials), and a two-point cabled camera system stretching more than 1,400 ft. (FlyCam), Fox Sports essentially had three tiers of aerials, always keeping the venue visuals fresh and captivating throughout the broadcast.

This year, Beverly Hills Aerials has expanded its drone lineup for the show to four: two heavy-lift drones outfitted with Red Komodo 6K cameras; an FPV drone for faster, more nimble shots; and the super-compact Bumble Bee drone that was used for safe flying over the action during the USFL season.

According to Beverly Hills Aerials Chief Pilot Michael Izquierdo, these drones get more flight time through battery life than last year's, giving the pilots more freedom to explore for new, captivat
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