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Arena Television has supplied and installed a purpose-built gallery from cameras, edit suites and recording equipment all supported by the IP core of Arena’s OBY truck parked outside the studio. “Within the year of prep we mapped three to four different types of look and [those] three to four different projects evolved into what we have now,” he says. “Originally we wanted to be in every country. If a game is in Rome, let’s make the set ‘Rome’, but the pandemic prevented travel. We couldn’t get our team to the cities to film images that I thought would be good enough. I didn’t want to use stock shots. A lot of virtual studios look great on a wide angle but on the singles, stock shots can look pretty average.” ITV Sport is covering Euro 2020 with a brand new virtual studio in the UK They then tried to simulate cityscapes virtually by animating them in Unreal Engine, but these Filming backdrops too were not up to scratch. “It looked like a video game He tasked freelance cameraman Rob Whitworth to capture and not really what I wanted for the background of shots,” a variety of panoramic shots of the capital in 8K to be used McNamara says. as set backdrops. Whitworth specialises in time-lapse So, they reverted back to London. It still held the largest photography (he terms it flow motion) of cities including number of matches and McNamara’s thought was why Singapore, Istanbul, Shanghai and Pyongyang. hide the fact that ITV Sport was too in town. Whitworth shot in London over different days, at
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