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IT’S CARNAGE! Zero Division provides wireless order amid Carnage using Boxx Atoms
SKY ONE’S NEW SHOW CARNAGE , produced by Primal Media, has stunned everyone this year with its vision of what a combination of high octane, post-apocalyptic atmosphere and epic car battles should look like. The enormous extent of this project encompassed construction not only of the whole set of ‘gladiator-like’ arenas or the desert race track, but also the infrastructure needed to facilitate everyone and everything within the scope of this high-end contemporary production. If that’s not impressive enough, this immense compound was built in a location that’s a two-hour drive away from civilisation. SOUTH AFRICAN DESERT To best represent the show’s original theme, the South African desert was chosen as the shoot location. This choice, in turn, created the challenge of working in extreme weather conditions in the middle of nowhere. It was vital that the equipment could handle exposure to extreme conditions, but in addition it also needed to be fully operational and capable of working under such circumstances, all day every day. The epic smash-ups, so greatly captured by the show, required a complex network of safety procedures to ensure everyone was
protected during those fantastic battles. One essential aspect was having a live wireless camera feed from inside all six cars to monitor the drivers’ safety. The image from inside the cars was sent live to the gallery where both the director and the health and safety officer could see exactly what was happening inside the vehicle at any given point to ensure the safety of all involved. WIRELESS VIDEO TRANSMISSION WITH BOXX TV The show’s director Richard van’t Riet, who has more than three decades of experience working on such shows as Stand Up To Cancer , A League of Their Own , Bigheads , Beat The Star, The Cube, The Voice and Deal or No Deal, needed to find a very reliable yet straightforward and versatile wireless video transmission solution to ensure the best prospect of success on the shoot. Looking at the list of challenges for the wireless element of the project, and having worked with a range of products by Boxx TV over the years, Richard decided to use a Boxx system again. The extreme conditions of the South African desert, amplified by the interiors of the battle cars with no air conditioning meant that microwave links installed inside
“Zero Division supplied seven
Boxx Atomwireless video transmission systems”
IMAGES Each team in the show had to construct their own vehicle, so the Boxx Atom set-up needed to be easy to move from vehicle to vehicle and straightforward to set up.
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