Capturing live performances at the O2 with AGITO
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Brie Clayton February 12, 2021
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2020 was a challenging year for the live performance industry, but two different gigs captured by camera mount specialists Cammotion at the O2 on AGITO bookend it superbly. They paint a fascinating picture of live life both before and during lockdown, as well as highlighting the versatility of the AGITO and how it helps performance's capture the moment in different ways.
The first took place at the end of October 2019 and saw the AGITO deployed at the last European date of Ariana Grande's Sweetener World Tour. Mixed with behind-the-scenes footage, the resulting concert film Excuse Me, I Love You was released to Grande's army of fans on Netflix in December 2020.
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We used AGITO Trax for high wide-angle tracking shots right at the very, very top of the stadium, explains Matthew Gladstone, owner and operator at Cammotion. They'd built a scaffolding platform over the top two or three rows of seats, and we ran backwards and forwards on that for the whole show on around 15 meters of track.
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It was a fairly simple job, but the pictures from that viewpoint looked stunning, especially when all the audience's LED rings were lit up as part of the show, says Gladstone. The big advantage we had was that the AGITO is modular and we could take it apart and reassemble it on the tracks, as getting to that location right at the top of the O2 was difficult.
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This was filmed in the round' with Tong, Buckley, and the orchestra set up on the floor of the O2.
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Shot wirelessly with the TOWER on an ARRI ALEXA Mini, the AGITO was chosen for its ability to circle the orchestra for the complete 90 minutes of the live stream, as well as maintain social distance while it was doing it.
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Capturing live performances at the O2 with AGITO 
