TV Skyline, one of Europes largest and most successful mobile television production companies, chose Ikegami HDK-97ARRI cameras to broadcast the recent PUR & Friends 2014 annual concert from the massive Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Working in partnership with Neoxfilm, TV Skyline captured the performance for transmission by executive producer, Sky Germany.
Formed in 1975, PUR is a highly innovative and popular rock group with many best-selling albums to its credit, comments TV Skyline founder Wolfgang Reeh. Our objective was to capture the full excitement of this very high-profile musical event for television viewers. We naturally needed images that would reflect the dynamism of the music.
Ikegami HDK-97ARRI camera.
The Veltins Arena is the home ground of the Bundesliga club Schalke 04. It has a retractable pitch which was taken up for the duration of the concert. The roof was closed to achieve the best possible acoustics. The stage itself was illuminated with controlled lighting which also extended over the seated and promenading audience.
We have 22 Ikegami HDK-97A cameras in our fleet. They have given excellent results in every project we have worked on, whether shooting at wide angle, mid-range or high-magnification close-up zoom. To get maximum impact from the PUR & Friends stage shots, we deployed three HDK-97ARRI camera heads: one at the stage rim, one on a dolly and one on a crane.
Ikegami HDK-97ARRI camera at the recent PUR & Friends annual concert
The HDK-97ARRI is based on the Ikegami HDK-97A docking camera head and incorporates extra features developed for digital film-making. These include a larger Super 35 sensor which delivers cinematic depth of field, clean highlights, extremely low noise and very natural skin tones. The HDK-97ARRI is fully compatible with our HDK-97A infrastructure, using the same base station, CCU and cable interfaces, so everything connected together very easily.
Intercutting between the HDK-97A and HDK-97ARRI cameras in our coverage of the PUR & Friends concert allowed us to combine the realism and immediacy of a high quality outside broadcast with the extra impact associated with digital cinematography.
Particularly impressive was the HDK-97ARRIs dynamic and low-noise rendering of the performerss high-contrast clothing, from dark areas of clothing through to very vibrant highlights. The client producer was also delighted so we have high hopes of winning the contract to televise PURs 30th anniversary concert this year.
Selecting Ikegami's HDK-97ARRI Super 35 cameras was a key element of the creative realisation, adds Neoxfilms Creative Director Marc Sch trumpf. We relied on early planning and arrangements, choosing the right lenses and optimal camera positions. By maintaining a constant lens aperture, the depth of field could be permanently kept shallow. By using the optimum focal lengths, we were able to generate a cinematic look that brought the PUR concert at its most impressive into every viewers home.
Jointly developed by Ikegami and ARRI, the HDK-97ARRI is a broadcast-style production camera with digital cinema characteristics enabling a large format sensor to be deployed in multiple camera operation. Centered around ARRIs Super 35 CMOS sensor and its associated support circuitry, the system provides cinematic qualities including natural colour rendering, exceptional dynamic range and progressive frame rates such as 23.98p. Broadcast-grade distribution can be performed using the latest Ikegami technology, via fibre transmission using up to 2 kilometres of SMPTE hybrid fibre and cable.
Veltins Arena during PUR concert
The ARRI large-format front end is famed for its film-like organic look, characterised by extended, clean highlights, an extremely low noise floor, natural skin tones, excellent colour separation and a cinematic depth-of-field. Employing large pixels and a custom-designed read-out architecture, it delivers exceptionally wide dynamic range. ARRI's stainless steel lens mount system ensures super stable flange focal depth between lens and sensor.
The HDK-97ARRI is housed in a docking style camera head from Ikegamis successful Unicam HD camera series. Powered by Ikegami's latest 3G FPGA-based DSP, the camera provides complete real time control of all grey-scale, colour, and detail functions. A new 3G transmission system transports video from camera head to CCU, as well as 3G transmission from CCU to camera head. The camera head supports return video in HD, two channels of prompter video in SD, and (when using the CCU-970M) one channel of prompter video in HD. Other signals transported via the camera cable include two channels of intercom, two channels of programme audio, two channels of microphone audio, genlock phase control, camera control, and external auxiliary data. Ikegami's powerful 200-series remote control system enables video operators to manage multiple cameras using OCP, MCP, and network hubs.
About TV Skyline
TV Skyline (www.tv-skyline.de) is located in Mainz. The companys Sky Center headquarters have a total area of approximately 1,700 square metres plus a 1,400 square metre storage and workshop area. TV Skyline has over 20 years of experience in providing television production support services including outside broadcasting, flight-pack systems, studio facilities, mastering and image conditioning. The company also offers miniature camera systems and remote heads for special applications. Examples include Qube:Cam, Pool:Cam, Ingoal-Set, Sports:Cam5, the Thoma Remote modular head, the Birdy 5.0 camera crane and the HD-1200 remote HD camera. TV Skylines subsidiary company, Broadcast-Concept, produces Broadcast Manager software for quoting, scheduling, billing and accounting.
About Neoxfilm
Based in Cologne, Neoxfilm Filmproduktion GmbH (www.neoxfilm.com) is made up of an experienced and crea
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TV Skyline, one of Europes largest and most successful mobile television production companies, chose Ikegami HDK-97ARRI cameras to broadcast the recent PUR & Friends 2014 annual concert from the massive Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen. Working in partnership with Neoxfilm, TV Skyline captured the performance for transmission by executive producer, Sky Germany.
