Commonwealth Games 2018 on BBC

The door in 'Oz' , which opened up into Victoria Square was a fire escape door on the side of Birmingham Town Hall.

OK, so I'm at a staff conference today, and they have played the Mr Blue Sky performance at the start.
So there was no steadycam or harness involved (thanks, Noggin) so am I right in thinking the two 'riser' shots over the statue, and what was the cascading fountains was done by quickly attaching the movi to the crane jibs?

As there was no jump cuts, or crossfades leading to a slightly different angle, that is the only way that could be achieved with a one take, one shot continuous movement.

There really needs to be a making of.. video of that. The one linked above to the Birmingham Live site of the live performance has most of the impressive camera movements obscured by the trees on Waterloo Street.

Yes - the Movi had a Shotdock mounting system that apparently allowed it to attach and detach quickly to the Super Technos, and as that mounting is the 'right side' of the stabiliser, most of the jolts caused by mounting it (however carefully) are presumably smoothed out. AIUI there were two people waiting to help attach to the crane as the camera operator arrived. For the fast moving non-crane shots, vehicles were used I believe.


I heard rumblings Blue Peter may have been filming it.

No #Floosieinthejacuzzi?

I'm going to put the record straight here- I had 6 weeks to plan this, the try outs were 2 weeks ago and we put the whole show together in 10 days with volunteers. It was a single shot, done live, with a steady cam, 2 x buggys, 2 x cranes and a drone. https://t.co/PzjdXh0YVN

— Rosie Kay Dance Company (@rosiekaydanceco) April 16, 2018

Radzi was there for Blue Peter.

Blue Peter's Radzi after taking part in the amazing @GC2018 to #birmingham2022 handover performance in #Brum city centre pic.twitter.com/aUXz6F5KMJ

— Bham City Council (@BhamCityCouncil) April 15, 2018

She's in a flower bed nowadays, the water features were turned off a while ago.

Radzi can be spotted at around 0:55 seconds, just before they showcase the orchestra. Left side.

Some more on how they did it by Motion 24:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhobyBtn5dB/?taken-by=motion24_tv

Midlands Today had an item on Friday on how they did it, even how they did the rings part. Can't find it online anywhere yet but will update

I found it on iPlayer with less than an hour to go before it became unavailable so made a copy and put it on YouTube:

Makes me wonder if this was any inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU

I hope the Parkour guy in green doesn't feel bad about his fall - it actually ended up looking even more impressive because he ended up making his last jump right in front of the camera!