Generally, tennis time in Charleston means Joe Schmitt is on the court running camera 4 on a low boy for ESPN. It's a nice feeling having to choose between a Cannon 77 X lens or a 99. It also means running a lot of cables. This year was different. In a good way.
Big Kid Productions of London hired At Will to help coordinate a two day, HD shoot. Video would be acquired for a series of viral videos. These "Making of a Hero" videos will be all over the web in June. We can't tell you much about the content of the videos, but you can read the write-ups from Tennis Team USA, and Sony Ericsson.
Matching, Panasonic HPX-500 cameras were used. Big Kid brought in a small crew with a lot of experience. DP, Harvey Glenn was running the "A" camera going "handy" (hand-held) a lot, quickly switching between Cannon HJ-11 and HJ-22 lenses. On day one, the "B" camera was used on a Cam Mate, courtesy of Osprey HD. On day two "B" was all over the place, sometimes hand-held, on the tripod, or high-hat mounted atop a 15 foot ladder. Joe Schmitt of At Will Productions operated "B" camera on day two.Big Kid owner Ed Pettit and Steve Cooney of Comet Multimedia (dubbed R2-P2) coordinated P-2 file transfers to laptop computers loaded with Final Cut Pro. The P-2 work flow was very efficient, and provided almost instant daily's.
How did Ed express his view on working with At Will Productions? "Chuffed to bits."
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