Events and Ceremonies
UAE Golden Jubilee
“Journey to the 50th” 2022
DAE Global did design, create and produce a spectacular ceremony to celebrate UAE’s Golden Jubilee at EXPO 2020. This groundbreaking, 30 minute experience featured 370 cast members and 84 crew members in a mixture of traditional and contemporary performance, music, puppetry, dance, movement and projections to tell the journey of the nation as well as its future ambitions.
The Host Broadcaster Dubai TV had installed the broadcast equipment inside one of the buildings surrounding the heart of Dubai EXPO site the Al Wasl Plaza. Ceremony was captured with 23 cameras including 3D and 2D flying cameras, 2 Steadicams, 2 railcameras. Camera crew was a combination from local cameramen and 2 cameramen from Estonia.
EXPO 2020 Opening Ceremony
Like every other event in 2020 also the EXPO 2020 was postponed for a year due to the worldwide pandemic. When the Opening Ceremony finally take place in 2021 hard rules to fight the pandemic were implemented by the production team. I did fill the position of being Backup Broadcast Director following the rehearsals and live broadcast from the isolated production gallery with the purpose to take over the broadcast directing of the Opening Ceremony in case of the Main Broadcast Director becoming infected with COVID. Few weeks of rehearsals did conclude with the beautiful ceremony to celebrate both the opening of EXPO, but also the beaking the backbone of the global pandemic. World started to open up again.
You can view the ceremony here.
Sochi 2014 Olympic Games Ceremonies
FIve Currents did stage a biggest indoor installation for the Olympic Ceremonies ever staged. 4 incredible ceremonies took place in 2014 February - March. Aerial tracking system wiht 7 parallel rails each carrying 9 dolles were moving massive scenic elemenst with few af them with the size of small airplane.
OBS is the Host Broadcaster who produces the worldwide delivered TV signal from every Olympic event and competition. For the purpose of ceremony and the audience attending the event the dedicated vision mix was created for the 4 massive LED stadium screens. I did preform as the Director for this screen feed. This work consisted of using 8 ISO camera feeds., specal video outputs from the content playback system and dedicated screen formatted broadcast graphicis. Close cooperation with the main Broadcast Director is needed to ensure the flawless TV production for the billons of the TV audience watching these ceremonies.