December 5, 2009
Atlanta -- Atlanta-based production company Sunseeker Media chose RIOT Atlanta to provide multiple post production services for Centric presents 2009 Soul Train Awards show. RIOT created video packages that ran during the R&B and Soul themed event, held November 3rd at Atlanta's World Congress Center, and provided all the post production services to package the presentation for the premiere broadcast that took place November 29th on BET Networks and BET’s brand-new channel, Centric. The gala event, hosted by Hustle & Flow co-stars Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, will be rebroadcast on Centric on Thursday, December 3rd; Saturday, December 5th; and Sunday, December 6th; and on BET on Saturday, December 5th.
"RIOT is becoming recognized as a total creative studio," says John Phillips, RIOT Atlanta's director of business development. Adds Sunseeker principal, Bart Phillips, "With the tight schedule we had, it was great RIOT was able to take on the editing, audio, writing, producing, and much of the graphics. As the kickoff show for Centric, viewers' impressions were extremely important, and RIOT did a great job."
Chuck Brock, a producer and VP of creative services at RIOT, worked closely with senior editor Willie Giles creating the 30-second nomination packages and the two-and-a-half-minute pre-show tribute pieces about artists Chaka Khan, Charlie Wilson, and the late Michael Jackson, all of which were used at the live event. RIOT handled all aspects of the pieces' creation internally. "We wrote and produced them in their entirety," says Brock, adding that RIOT's creative staff worked in-house in Apple Final Cut Pro for the editing; Apple Motion and Adobe Photoshop and After Effects for graphics work; and a combination of Fairlight and Digidesign Pro Tools workstations for audio mixing and sweetening.
The live show was captured in HD with nine cameras placed throughout the venue. RIOT received the material in the form of a line cut, and all cameras' iso recordings. RIOT's job at this point was to provide a seamless edit of the show by cutting it down to time, building in graphics elements and enhancing the live mix of the audio making use of all the individual tracks that existed for the individual microphone placements throughout the space.
The editing was done in multi-camera mode with RIOT's FCP system. "We could work with BET's post producer, Troy Mosely, in a very interactive way," Brock explains. "If we wanted to find an alternative shot to what was in the line cut, we could quickly show him what all the other cameras got at that moment. The whole process of making editorial adjustments went very smoothly."
RIOT Atlanta also used Fairlight tools to give that extra sparkle to the sound. "They had every voice, every live mix and Pro Tools to remix the audio for broadcast. Sunseeker had made sure to have every voice, every instrument, separated out onto individual tracks," Brock notes.
"We had on any given day," Phillips says, "up to five rooms running simultaneously on this production. We had the volume and dedication to crunch through this challenging production very quickly."
Centric went live on air Sept. 28 via digital cable and satellite carriers.
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