May 2022
The Shows Must Go On (Screen)
At top, a Sony Venice underslung on a Steadicam while shooting David Byrne’s American Utopia. The past two years have seen a rising trend in multi-cam Broadway performance captures designed for streaming and television audiences. Leveraging large-sensor digital cinema cameras like the Sony Venice on the front end, broadcast style multi-cam interconnectivity on the back end, and cinema production techniques, these projects have truly raised the bar for what’s become known as “cinematic multi-cam.” Producers Alec Sash and Nina Shiffman, in conjunction with production companies including Radical Media, as well as their own company, Seeker, have undertaken projects including American Utopia, Come From Away and others with an...more