Engineering and shading at San Francisco Opera

Here is photo of Elliot who is at the Engineering and Shading station.  Not only does Elliot make sure that the cameras are shaded correctly but he also handles the projection screens and projectors for the Opera Vision audience.   

 June 19 Continued.......... Camera station

After reviewing our last capture which was opening night.  I had a chance to take a few photos of a camera station.  Here is Doug Hunt who has been at San Francisco Opera since 2006.  He's checking his presets and controls. Each of the four stations have a joy stick control, focus,  selectable switcher panel. camera monitor that is switchable and preset monitor.  Doug for this opera  is responsible for cameras one, three and nine and sometimes eight which is allocated to another operator some of the time.  Because there are more cameras than operators I have to sometimes have the operators hand off their designated cameras to the other operators.  Cameras 2, 5, 8 and 10 are designated to Brian and cameras 4, 7, 6 and 11 are Neils.  Camera 12 is a static shot on the Maestro.

Partenope June 19, 2024 at the San Francisco Opera

This June 2024 I am directing for the screen, Partenope at the San Francisco Opera.   In what is called the Media suite at the San Francisco Opera are four operator stations, one shader station, a switcher and Director and AD station.  Tonight we are capturing and sending our program output or line cut to Opera Vision section of the audience which seats about 800 people.  The line cut is projected on high balcony screens that come down from the ceiling and will give this audience a view of the singers closeup.  The screens will also have the supertitles in English.  We will cover the opera with 12 cameras, one static and all others operated by three operators. Here is a shot of our media suite: