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LiveWorks Media delivers inaugural Soho House festival

Exclusive private members club Soho House has held a two-day music festival in London’s Gunnersbury Park in partnership with the Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust, SBTV and YouTube.

LiveWorks Media was tasked with handling the production for the festival which was held in memory of DJ turned entrepreneur (and former Soho House member) Jamal Edwards, who died in February.

The inaugural House Festival featured sets by Fatboy Slim, Bastille, Primal Scream, Jessie J and Trevor Nelson. A YouTube stream was presented by Nihal Arthanayake, Jo Wiley and Roman Kemp.

LiveWorks Media – which has been providing consultancy to Soho House and support on a project called Live Rooms for more than a year – used a four-camera studio setup, with two fixed cameras on each stage combined with cameras that roamed around the festival site. In all, six URSA Broadcast G2s and four Pocket Cinema Camera 4Ks were employed.

The company opted for a cinematic approach, acquiring everything in 2160p50 and using photography lenses to achieve a more dynamic depth of field. Jonathan Ayres, Live Works Media’s owner and creative director, said: “We chose to shoot in the cameras extended video mode for both ease and speed, ensuring we could turn around a finished, graded picture with only minor touches required.

“When it came to the studio, we relied on coax (12G-SDI), cutting the programme mix on an ATEM Television Studio Pro HD video switcher, giving us a quick and simple as-live workflow. This approach ensured we could implement remote camera control of all four cameras via a separate ATEM Camera Control Panel when recording the presenter links and interviews.”

The audio was mixed by location sound mixer and sent via the cameras’ XLR inputs to the vision mixer, where it was embedded, and then recorded using a series of field recorders.

Each stage had an identical hardware rack featuring a Smart Videohub 20×20 router with a series of Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio Mini 4K recorders used for recording and backup, while also ensuring a broadcast audio mix could be embedded to the wide shots of each stage.

“This gave us a head start on the music edit, while also enabling our sound supervisors to see the stages as they mixed live,” added Ayres. “Each of the stages was multi-tracked recorded, so our sound operators could make any changes artists required.”

A Teranex AV was included in both racks and used to convert the video output to HDMI for monitoring purposes at the production desk.

“With a brief that did evolve, it showed us just how versatile the URSA Broadcast G2s is as a camera package. Likewise, the ATEM switcher ensured a quick setup and increased the pace of content production on site,” said Ayres.

The production relied on 15 crew members working across two production tents. They included a DIT for data wrangling, an item editor and a sequence editor, as well as a dedicated studio team. The show was finished at the Live Works office and broadcast via YouTube and TikTok.

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