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NEP Norway Takes the Holmenkollen Ski Festival to New Heights and Extremes

17/03/2023

NEP Norway takes the Holmenkollen Ski Festival to new heights and extremes By Heather McLean

Friday, March 17, 2023 - 09:49

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NRK camera capturing a climb in front of large crowds in Saturday's Men's 50km Cross Country race

The FIS World Cup Cross Country Skiing, Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in Norway took place last weekend from 9 to 12 March.

This event was a huge effort by host broadcaster, NRK of Norway, which used its own OB units as well as being supported by technical provider, NEP Norway.

The Holmenkollen Ski Festival is wildly popular in Norway, where people are born with skis on the their feet an inherent love of winter sports. This is one of the biggest OBs of the year in Norway, with cameras spread over a wide area to cover the 8.3 killometre lap Cross Country course and also the Holmenkollen ski jumping hill, which provides extremely impressive coverage.

We have such great experiences doing these kind of productions, that whatever challenge we face, we always manage to deliver the wow . It's just a big, beautiful event to make the unity of the country. That's what Norwegians are. We love our ski stuff. We're born with it. I'm born with it!

This event also had the first-ever FIS Women's 50 kilometre Cross Country race on Sunday racing the same distance as Saturday's Men's race and saw a popular home Norwegian winner in Ragnhild Haga.

The FIS Ski-Jumping is also the first leg of the Raw Air' tournament, covering three hills in Norway this month. This Holmenkollen 134 metre hill was rebuilt and reopened in 2010 and staged the World Championships in 2011.

Tossief Jafri, head of sales at NEP Norway and project manager for the Holmenkollen Ski Festival, spoke to SVG Europe about the broadcast of the event, but first commented: Any ski event is a huge event in Norway, [but combine] ski jumping, and cross country and it's a really big day for Norway. A big, beautiful event which unites the nation.

There's passion and love for the sport and respect for the people behind the sport. It makes it amazing to watch on TV and is beautiful.

Camera capturing a long shot of the Holmenkollen ski-jump

Capturing juicy pictures

NEP had three OB trucks on site and NRK had a further two trucks of its own, Host and National, on location. Adds Jafri: Our client has their own trucks, because it's a national broadcaster in Norway, so we had a wide of range of trucks to be able to cover such a big event.

Tossief Jafri, head of sales at NEP Norway

He comments on the cameras used for the Festival: We used EVS to get all the footage recorded. We had five EVS's in total, with three of them supported by NEP. We also had two super slow motion cameras. The slow mo cameras were capturing those really juicy pictures that we like! So you're really in there and capturing the moment in slow motion, especially on the ski jump; you want to see that in slow mo, especially when they're in the air.

Then we used four of the big, large lenses, called 90x lenses. They were capturing those beautiful close ups of the cross country guys and the women and the people jumping, and giving you those beautiful amazing shots.

And then we used one wireless camera. Wireless cameras capture literally in the moment where the audience is. We also used it to interview the [athletes] who were skiing, and also the cross country. We had a lot of famous reporters that were working on this event.

NEP Norway also used a Polecam to capture the up close action at the top of the ski jumps, where the space available is narrow, but the facial expressions of the athletes are a must see as they prepare to jump.

On the ski jump, we used around 15 cameras, and on the cross-country event, we have around 30 cameras. So it's quite a large amount of cameras to be able to cover such a big event, adds Jafri.

Steep climb in the Women's Nordic Combined 5km Cross Country

Avoiding shaky shots

There are a myriad of challenges for this event, but the temperature is the main one says Jafri: So the challenge we face is the cold weather, which is somewhere around -10 degrees Celsius. It's very cold, especially in the morning, so our camera crew uses heating pads inside their gloves and actually on the feet as well, on the inside of their shoes, because they're standing there for hours and hours working and getting those beautiful shots; they have to keep themselves warm. It doesn't matter how well dressed you are, the part that gets cold first is the fingers and the toes.

So we're making sure that the people who are working there are, first of all, not freezing because as soon as they freeze, they're starting to get shaky shots; it's absolutely amazing how hard the camera people work.

Then we do the same thing with the cameras. To protect our cameras, we use something called arctic rain covers, for rain and snow. As soon as the sun comes, then obviously all the covers goes away, but it's just a way to protect the equipment because overnight they are outside.

The reason why they stay outside is so they are declimatised. If you take [a camera indoors and outdoors] it will be a big temperature difference for the equipment, and we would then face challenges with the camera not working. So you just protect in such a way and it's ready to go in the morning.

Camera with independent viewfinder for rapid pan and tilt

Sound of powder

On the audio, Jafri notes that NEP Norway does and has historically used sampler effects for this event. He explains: The sampler effects give the audience a very unique experience, because it's very challenging to record [certain sounds on the slopes], especially when the ski jumper jumps; that swoosh sound. And then when they land, it
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