NEWSMISC
Dubai Film
Festival
The Dubai International Film
Festival, now in its sixth year, is
the largest film festival in the Middle
East, Asia and Africa. The event
was filmed by SAE students using
JVC’s GY-HM100 and GY-HM700
camcorders, providing super-fast
videos for uploading to the web.
“The Dubai International Film Festival is
a really big event for us”, explained Giorgio
Ungania, SAE. “The show always gets
Teleclub sport studios
everyone talking and there has been a lot
of media buzz generated this year. We saw
this as an ideal opportunity for some of
our students to gain first-hand experience Swiss TV studios upgrade with GY-HD251 cameras
by being involved. They were used as
anchors, editors and cameraman.
“We needed a camera that would allow
July 2009 saw the first broadcast Teleclub presenters welcome their
us to shoot, edit and upload as fast as
from the new Teleclub sport
viewers from all over Switzerland, in
possible, whilst still giving us
studio in Volketswil, Switzerland.
both German and French languages.
quality footage. For the first time in Teleclub’s
Before the first broadcast in summer
sports coverage history, all
2009, plenty of work was needed to
“We were getting footage
football and ice hockey matches
bring Teleclub’s studios to life.
edited and on the web within
Alessandro Marzullo’s construction
were now able to be controlled
twenty minutes.”
team, from a company called Kitag,
from the central broadcasting
and Benno Zimmermann’s engineering
centre, which featured two
team from RingierTV did exceptionally
“The GY-HM100 was perfect for this, completely autonomous television
well, building professional television
as once we had finished shooting,
studios with JVC GY-HD251
studios with only two months for
we could simply drag and drop in
studio cameras.
construction and installation.
to Final Cut Pro™ and begin editing.”
Teleclub is proud of its new studios,
One of the benefits that SAE had by using
which now deliver 160 days of fascinating
the GY-HM100 cameras was that it allowed
sport each year. When initially choosing
them to upload their footage before all
the GY-HM251 cameras, Teleclub relied
of their rival stations. “The workflow was
amazing, as we were getting footage edited
on JVC’s experience to deliver a simple,
and on the web within 20 minutes of it
professional broadcasting solution.
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taking place – a first for an international
event. The fact that it was our students
who were able to do so makes it even
more impressive. We had the total support
of the JVC Gulf office too, who were heavily
involved in the event.”
SAE Institute is the largest worldwide
private college for Audio Production,
Film Production, Interactive Animation
and Applied Multimedia. They have
recently set up a new one year course,
Digital Journalism, which allows students
to gain practical experience and equips
them with proper professional journalism
skills. As part of the course, students
receive an Apple iMac and GY-HM100
camcorder in order to get them started. n
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