It would have been a rig set up. Too risky to use a helicamera in a room like that. Basically a big fixed in place Jimmy jib which would allow forward and backwards movment as well as up and down and turning possibly 360.
Like a Technocrane you mean? The distance it traveled looked far too far for that. Also I'd have thought the wires of a "spidercam" would have got in the way, as it went very low, and was surrounded at one point by performers on the stage.
I need to find the bit on the ITV player thing where it's in shot!
Edit: Can't be bothered. Can't remember if I saw it on Saturday or Sunday and it makes you watch all the ad breaks! Life's too short. Anyway if you watch Sunday's episode you can see a shot from it fairly early on in the group number.
Last edited by The Nurse on 18 December 2013 2:44pm - 2 times in total
The individual shots with the spidercam, etc were great, but it all felt a bit disjointed and lacked fluidity. SVT nails it every year with Melodifestivalen. There is constant movement rather than cutting from a moving spidercam shot to a static camera shot.