Ein deutsches Requiem
The end of the lent term sees the annual performance of a requiem setting by The King’s School, Canterbury Chorus and Symphony Orchestra. This year it was Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms. Staged in the glorious surroundings of Canterbury Cathedral’s nave BH Broadcast once again provided a 4 camera recoding of this event to be hosted on the King’s music departments impressively popular Youtube channel.
Captured in 4k and edited to HD, this allowed gentle, broadcast style camera movements to accompany the 16 channel multi-tracked recording. All of this delivered by a single operator making this a highly cost-efficient production.
New Year Ballet
2024 got underway with an ambitious project to film a production of Stravinsky’s Les Noces by the New Movement Collective in the converted Fireworks factory in Woolwich (Woolwich Works). The challenge was not the production itself, rather the production schedule.
Attend the opening performance on Saturday evening to make nots on the choreography and staging. Unload production equipment into venue
Setup onSunday morning before…
Matinee performance, used as a tech run-through for cameras and sound.
Final checks before filming the final performance on Sunday evening.
The technical specifications were:
32 ch audio from the sound designer/FOH mix
8ch audio for ambient capture -stereo pairs on ensemble, soloists and chorus and a pair for room atmos
5 cameras - 3xSony FR7 on covering the choreography on stage and 2x Panasonic UE70s for the musicians.
A live reference mix was captured during the performance and then the camera ISOs and multi-tracked audio were all brought into Davinci Resolve Studio for the edit.
Building on Success
In December BH Broadcast was contracted by London recruitment and production agency JacobsMassey to produce the Canterbury stage in a multi-venue end-of-year event for global construction, fit-out and engineering company, ISG
50-inch comfort monitor provided for on-stage presenters
Production Kit provided include audio Mixing for on and off site feeds, 2x GFX PCs, 2x vMix rigs to mix the broadcast and to act as a playback server for in-room content. Video was captures on 2x Sony FR7s and the program output was set over teams to the main site in London and into a separate Teams Live event for the ISG Retail team, many of whom were in the Collier Ferguson hall.
BH Broadcast PPUs set up in the Collyer Ferguson Hall, Canterbury
Culture Ahoy!
BH Broadcast partnered with PF Productions to provide multi-camera archive filming of concert series for the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.
Two concerts in the Barber Institute’s summer series were filmed in the spectaculr Elgar Concert Hall at Birmingham University. The two contrasting events were from opposite ends of musical history.
Jazz Saxophonist Xhosa Cole, partnered with drummer Mark Sanders for Ibeji a pair of two 45 minute improvisations.
In Contrast, The Binchois Consort and Gusto Renaissance Winds partnered for a programme intriguingly entitled: Strange and Upside Down featuring music by the composer Alexander Agricola.
Summer Begins…
June saw the start of the summer season kicking off with a succession of trips up and down the country!
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Working for a couple of close agencies, with whom BH Broadcast has enjoyed a long association with, the period of ten days looked like this…
1 June - Leeds Royal Armouries
5 June - Virtual event, Kent Studio
7 June - Ham Yard Hotel, London
8 June - Hyatt Regency Hotel, Manchester
9 June - Mercure Hotel, Maidstone
11 June - Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham
Phew! what a start to the summer and a good way to run in the new BH Broadcast Van!
If you have a project that BH Broadcast can help with, rest assured we offer nationwide coverage!
Cathedral Concert Filming
BH Broadcast delivers Concert recording in World Heritage Site
Each year The King’s School, Canterbury Music Department stages its Choral concert in Canterbury Cathedral. Alternating between the Mozart and Verdi Requiems, this opportunity for pupils to perform great choral works is one that will remain with them long after their school careers have ended.
BH Broadcast has been recording and filming these performances since 2009, when Paul was appointed as Head of Music Technology and since leaving the school in 2016 this relationship has continued.
Solution Provided:
4 Camera Coverage. 3x Panasonic AW-UE70 and 1x Sony FS5ii with 24-70mm F2.8
Live Vision Mix and ISO Recording
14CH Audio Recording with redundant backup.
Post-production ‘tidy up’ edit and audio mix.
vMix Training for KPMG
It all begins with an idea.
2023 kicked off with BH Broadcast teaming up with Streeem to deliver two vMix training courses for the internal events team at KPMG. Delivered over six days, this course was designed to help the team transition from producing events on Stream Yard to the highly flexible vMix.
The KMPG staff all came with different levels of experience and events backgrounds and it was great to see how they supported each other as the course progressed.
The greatest challenge was the shift in mindset, moving from “this is how it is done in Stream Yard” to “this is one of the ways you can achieve this in vMix”! One of the Managers of the Event and hospitality team summarised;
“We all thoroughly enjoyed the training and it has really opened our eyes into what it takes to run a vMix event – yes there is a lot of work involved but at least we now have the knowledge to move forward. 😊”