Hey Monday! How is everyone doing lately? OK, i’m guilty again… I know I know… its been a while again that I’ve posted anything on my blog.
But before anyone tries to kill me, let me post this entry first

Last week was really a killer week for me. More like it almost killed me literally. It all happened when I was asked to shoot behind the scenes at the Eason Chan Concert in Ahoy Rotterdam. At first I wasn’t really in the mood to go because I’m not really a fan of his music at all… But then a partner of ours asked me to shoot for them… so I accepted the ‘job’. That was just the beginning of my killer week… Tons of mails passed by and by the time I got everything confirmed like equipment and stuff… there was only like 2 days left to find a small crew… on a really short notice sigh….

But I managed assemble a small crew and off we went to Amsterdam Friday for the press conference and the concert itself Saturday  at Ahoy Rotterdam. The press conference was… a press conference? lol… nothing special about it. The next morning we had to be at Ahoy at 7am… that wasn’t really a good idea… because I didn’t slept well the night before. With a lot of motivation and energy… off we go again. Once there we already saw that the guys from BSL.be has started building the stage and our colleague from Stake5 has already started setting up our part of the HOF.

Around noon Eason arrived and not long after that… we had rehearsals with him. Everything went well and we were set for the concert that day. Just youtube for the videos with keywords like “Eason chan rotterdam” and you’ll see our work of the evening And for those who can see me on those videos, I’m buying them an icecream
I had camera position 1 on stage with a wireless HD camera configuration. So good luck finding my shadow on stage behind or next to Eason Chan
Behind the scenes pics and vids can be found on my FB.

We used the following equipments for the capture:

- 2 Sony PMW-EX1 HD camera
- 2 Sony PMW-EX3 HD camera
- 1 Sennheiser ENG set Sennheiser EW 100 G3 + hand micro D46
- 1 IDXtek Wireless HD-Video Transmission System IDX tek CW5 -HDcamwave (Wireless camera pack +-50m)
- 3 Manfrotto 525 Tripods
- 1 Telex wireless intercom system with 5 body packs and headsets

Live mixing:
- 1 Dell 27inch monitor preview monitor
- 1 Panasonic AV-HS400 HD mixer
- 1 Sony PMW-EX30 recorder
- 32GB of Sony SxS Pro memory cards
- 500m SDI cables
- 2 multi cables of 40m

Live feed showed in the theater on big screens:
- 2 Panasonic PT-DZ6710 Projectors
- 2 Projecta Fastfold 320 x 427cm screens
- 2 Panasonic Plasma 42″ TH42PH10ES

Could be that I’ve forgot some things in the list… but that’s basically what we’ve used during the live caption for the show. All these equipment can be rented at our partner www.stake5.be , check out their awesome prices and services!

Hmm I’m sure you remember my last entry where I had let go someone… well last night I saw that person coming online again… after months. We’ve talked a bit like friends, not sure how she’s doing actually. Because the conversation was really superficial. And right now as I’m typing this entry… she’s online too… But that shouldn’t really be a big deal since I’ve let her go, right . Beside I have PG now, so I don’t need anything else anymore Weeeeeeeeee xD

PG, I know the coming days are going to be killer for you, but you know that you got everyone’s (like TB jr., Cat, CB, etc xD)  support, so +oil. You can do it!