Most ice and snow sports fans will not come to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to watch the game, and watching tv broadcasts has become an important way for them to pay attention to the Winter Olympics. So how did a Winter Olympics get put on a TV screen?
The "Meet in Beijing" Biathlon International Training Week was held at the National Biathlon Center
On December 29, during the "Meet in Beijing" biathlon International Training Week, Fan Zepeng, the broadcast service manager of the National Biathlon Center, briefed reporters on the broadcast service work of the National Biathlon Center.
The key to high-quality broadcasting is to build a high-quality production team. While the situation changes rapidly during a competition, the key moments of a particular event often occur in relatively certain locations. Therefore, it is particularly important to hire an experienced production team. Olympic Broadcasting Services hires top teams for public signal production for each event during the Olympic Games. The venue's broadcast service team is equivalent to the "pre-housekeeper" of the production team, helping the production team to implement various broadcast needs.
The national biathlon center's range and penalty circle
Taking the broadcast service of the National Biathlon Center as an example, after preliminary investigation, the production team and the broadcast service team have identified more than 50 broadcast machine positions, including high-altitude camera positions and orbital camera positions. In order to determine these positions, the staff made great efforts: the track of the National Biathlon Center was 12.7 kilometers long, the staff had walked a total of 47 times during the inspection of the position, and the team members had broken more than 40 pairs of shoes; when surveying the higher points, the team members needed to pull all the hands down the hill to ensure safety; in order to find a scenic camera that could capture the whole picture of the National Biathlon Center, the team repeatedly inspected and finally set the camera position on the mountain where the National Ski Jumping Center is located...
Track lighting at the National Biathlon Center
Assisting the production team in selecting camera slots is only part of the retransmission services team's job. As we all know, the broadcast of sports events is not only an objective description, but also pays attention to the transmission of emotions. In addition to capturing the best picture, sound transmission is also an important way to convey emotions.
In biathlon, the most distinctive sound is the sound of athletes shooting at the range. In order to highlight the characteristics of this project and better convey the tension of the competition, the production team and the broadcast service team specially set up a sound receiving device at the target to capture the sound of the bullet from far and near and in the target, and better create a tense atmosphere for the audience.
The tester is testing the snow wax
Of course, the implementation of the camera position and the sound receiving point also depends on the cooperation of other fields. For example, the erection of the high-platform camera position and the "Flying Cat" ropeway camera system needs to be implemented by the relevant teams in the field of infrastructure and power; the background landscape of the picture captured by the camera is arranged by the relevant team in the field of image landscape; the real-time athlete information and competition results seen by the audience in the broadcast screen during the game come from the timing and scoring system responsible for the technical field...
Viewers who have become accustomed to using various terminals to watch sports broadcasts have little to imagine that there are so many staff behind a successful sports broadcast that is doing such a complex job. And this "hard to think" is precisely an affirmation of the broadcast work - the broadcast is smooth and wonderful, so that the audience only focuses on the game itself. The National Biathlon Center is ready to broadcast one smooth and wonderful Winter Olympic event after another for everyone.
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