livelifetotheverymax Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 I don't know if anyone's seen the T-Mobile but I can't help but notice there's a rather large number of wireless headsets and in-ears in use throughout. I was wondering how much of a challenge running all this side by side in a venue such as Heathrow airport would be as I imagine it's quite a RF heavy area and very restrictive frequency wise. I'm guessing that each "welcome" was filmed separately but even still, at times there is quite a few people singing at the same time. How hard would it be to covertly mic the choral parts with ambient mics to the quality that has been done given the very reflective/reverberant nature of the terminal and the unplanned locations for each song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 I have no actual answers to your questions, but THANK YOU for sharing that. I'd not seen the ad on TV as yet, but it's one of those that you can't help but love.A new twist on the now oldish theme of 'acapella' dance routines in a public place. Regardless of how many chunks it was filmed in, the co-ordination of the whole was superb in it's finished product. Excellent!:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrummerJonny Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Again, no answers to your questions, but wow. Looking at some of the mobile phone footage uploaded, it does look like a fair few of the chorus were regular passengers who jumped in and got involved... Edit - Was definitely filmed in a couple of takes. The BAA Employee having "Oh my God" sang to him was wearing a red hat in one of the mobile phone vids... am I too observant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grum Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Can't believe I missed out on that by one day, I flew in to T5 in the 28th. I did spot a few signs warning people that filming was taking place but didn't really pay them any attention now I know what they were for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 An excellent ad - whoever dreamed that one up is a genius. Call me cynical, though, but I can't help wondering how much of it was overdubbed in post ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boswell Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 I would think most of it! A concurrent post has been automatically merged from this point on. but I can't help but notice there's a rather large number of wireless headsets and in-ears in use throughout. I was wondering how much of a challenge running all this side by side in a venue such as Heathrow airport would be as I imagine it's quite a RF heavy area and very restrictive frequency wise. Ideal for a 12 system Line 6 mic test ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoLiEn Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 My friend was one of the people in charge ( not technical aspect, but she will have access to details) I will ask and post any details on here for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peternewman Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 I don't know how it was actually done, but given most of them appeared to have IEMs, a possible solution would be to just get the one RF channel for IEMs, then you could locally mic each person with a solid state recorder, feed timecode or some other more basic sync signal (a morse code number ever ten seconds perhaps) down one leg of the IEMs and into the recorder the person is wearing, their local mic into the other. Then sync it all in the edit. Hell, you might even be able to do something a bit like a clapperboard and just play a unique tone over the PA before the start of each recording. Its not live so you don't actually need radio mic feeds of each performer back to the desk during the event... Some of the behind the scenes phone footage seems to show it was filmed on DSLRs, so they'd have to sync those all together during the edit anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil dekked Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 It was Brit Row supplying radio mics / beltpacks and IEM`s. Mostly Shure UHr and Senn G2 rx systems with DPA headsets and lapel mics. There was a single Senn IEM system providing a 40 way IEM for the majority . I don`t think there was a problem with the frequencies needed we didn`t use anything outside of normal available ranges. There were 12v small PA systems hidden in the luggage as well to add a bit of " ambience"! I can prob` get the answers on any specific questions from our engineers? .p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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