used a mixture of GoPro Hero 12s and Marshall POV cameras, plus a few ceiling-mounted cameras, to capture interactive content. He recalls recording ‘several petabytes’ of data, with everything at 1080/30p. Because the content is unscripted, cameras must be running 24 hours a day until the competition ends. “Nothing is planned,” Elliott says. “It’s all very in-the-moment, and we have to be ready to adjust our strategy at the drop of a hat. Being prepared to capture those unexpected events as they occur is crucial.” The previous 1-100 challenge,
the batteries and memory cards,” says Elliott. “While that technically could have been done, it simply wasn’t a feasible option based on the ongoing disturbance it would cause the players. Our camera team has a policy of non-interference, so we made the decision to hard power everything and record it all remotely, using Atomos Shogun Studio 2s.” In addition, Elliott employed the Atomos Sumo 19 to record multiple feeds onto one large monitor. When planning Mr Beast’s most recent 1-100 video, Elliott again opted
vast quantities of cameras’ while also allowing them to ‘easily expand or reduce our racks’. Elliott has high hopes for more 1-100 videos in the future. And while Beast Games has also been renewed for an additional two seasons, the possibilities for Mr Beast’s YouTube channel are endless. “We as a camera team, and as a channel, always aim to do our best and push the limits of what’s possible,” Elliott concludes. All fired up Much like The Great British Bake Off , The Great Pottery Throw Down sees ten contestants compete with one another to be crowned Top Potter. First released in 2015, the series first aired on BBC Two, before moving to More 4 and then Channel 4. Produced by Love Productions, the show films in Stoke-on-Trent, with a potter being eliminated in each episode. Creating a series like The Great Pottery Throw Down is no easy
Ages 1-100 Fight For $500,000 , took almost eight days to film. “As you can imagine, it would create quite a lot of additional labour if we had to repeatedly go in and change all for the Shogun Studio 2, calling it ‘a clear-cut choice’. With 46 units in operation, the Shogun Studio 2s delivered on modularity and flexibility, giving Elliott and his team a ‘super- efficient way to record and monitor » From the start, we try to display the beauty and uniqueness of country life «
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