VINTEN PROVIDE CAMERAS FOR ‘BIG BROTHER’

VINTEN WERE once again delighted to be involved with the reality TV show ‘Big Brother’.
They aided in providing the public with hours of footage by supplying pan and tilt heads, tripods and pedestals to support many of the cameras within the UK ‘Big Brother’ house and studios on behalf of Endemol Entertainment UK.
A total of 33 cameras – 14 remotely controlled heads, 14 cameras supported by Vinten Vision pan and tilt heads and 2-stage tripods and four cameras on Vinten Osprey Elite lightweight studio/OB pedestals caught all the action.
The fixed mounts and manned pedestals were situated in the extensive camera runs around the house and garden. The Elites together with all other technical facilities and crew were supplied by ‘Roll to Record’.
It was a very unique filming environment with the cameramen in a blacked out corridor surrounding the house filming through one way glass windows. The lengthy coverage meant that there was a number of cameramen working on shifts. Cameramen can easily suffer from fatigue under such conditions, with the help of ‘perfect balance’ – a unique feature to the Vision range of pan and tilt heads this was minimised. ‘Perfect balance’ allowed the camera operator to position the camera in one spot and leave it there. The drag setting on these heads is independent of the balance and adjustment so it allows the operator to respond to movement easily with no drag adjustments to make.
‘Big Brother’ has proved so popular world-wide that there are now ‘Big Brother’ houses in 15 countries including France, Sweden, Australia and the USA.
In Argentina Vision 250 pan and tilt heads designed for the latest EFP camera combinations were used on the original series. (CD)