46 FEATURE 4K CONCERT
Live At Pompeii saw Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour return for two dynamic concerts, all shot in glorious 4K WORDS JULIAN MITCHELL ROCK THE RUINS
something really special and lasting. I know Gavin had been working on this tour for a couple of years with dates in North America and Europe already before Pompeii. “He’d seen the show many times so was very well versed to be directing it and getting the best out of where to put the cameras. I know he spent a lot of time working with Marc Brickman the lighting designer, there were a lot of discussions about the look and lighting it for camera - not just from a performance and theatrical point of view but to really get the best of it from the camera side. So all that of that from my point of view had been done before we got there and then it was a case of recording it over the two nights.” 4K SHOOT Camera wise for this project, it was a 19-camera concert set-up with predominantly Sony F55 RAW/XAVC, Sony 4300, Sony A7R2, Sony F5, RED DRAGON in 6K, Blackmagic Cinema
and artists that they have worked for. However, for the David Gilmour event James came late to the party. “I arrived when everything was built and went in and did my thing really.” When James is included early on in plans shooting can be done as sole cameras recording locally, then a long editing process begins. This one was different. “This one had been planned for a while in terms of a concert film. My role was originally just to shoot documentary around it but once I was there the director Gavin Elder wanted me to shoot on stage as well, so camera number 18 or 19, part of the set-up. I was also going to help in terms of the post work as we had previously done for a big Duran Duran concert called A Diamond in the Mind . This concert was on another scale altogether. I’ve no idea what the shooting budget for it was; they had all the A players on it in terms of crew and it was beautifully set up. They had the intention all along of shooting it in 4K and making
he Roman Amphitheatre at Pompeii hasn’t seen much action since the first century. Pink Floyd recorded there 45 years ago and now David Gilmour has revisited to rock out there one more time. The concert film has been released in numerous formats including a Europe-wide cinema release. Pompeii became a character itself within the show with the dark Vesuvius ever present behind. James Tonkin’s Hangman Studio specialises in the creative design, the shooting and the post production for concerts; you can see by their website the many famous bands
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