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.