FLORIDA – With in-person concerts on hiatus, Grammy-nominated rock band Underoath turned to Florida’s Odd!Life Studios to help produce a live streamed concert series so fans could enjoy their music while at home. Creating an immersive experience that was equal parts performance art, the concert series (“Underoath: Observatory”) consisted of three concerts over the course of three weeks, with each concert covering one of Underoath’s albums in its entirety.
More details from BMD here (www.blackmagicdesign.com):
Cinematographer, Director and Producer Lief Thompson from Odd!Life Studios used a Blackmagic Design workflow powered by four Pocket Cinema Camera 6Ks, an ATEM Mini Pro, ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K and ATEM 1 M/E Broadcast Panel helped them get everything done within their tight two week turnaround time.
According to Lief: “Knowing Blackmagic Design’s track record in live streaming, the Pocket Cinema Camera 6K was an easy choice. The cameras communicate easily with Blackmagic Design switchers and also enabled us to get 1080p 23.976fps for the cinematic look of these live music video concerts. When combined with the ATEM Mini Pro, we had an all HDMI solution that reduced our profile in small production studio settings, and when combined with Blackmagic HDMI to SDI Micro Converters, we were able to run SDI into the larger ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K for our eight camera warehouse setup.”
footage from the live stream rehearsals is available here
