Digital Video - January 2009 - (Page 20) Berner sets up some double coverage on location with The Electric Company. ALL PO WERED UP VIDEOGRAPHER BILL BERNER ADDS VISUAL STYLE TO THE ELECTRIC COMPANY WITH A PANASONIC P2 WORKFLOW. BY IAIN STASUKEVICH demographic (and opens with the memorable, “Hey you guys!”), but for all intents and purposes it is an entirely unique entity. Instead of a sketch-driven multi-camera setup, the show is now a single- to two-camera location-based narrative set in a naturalfoods diner somewhere in “the big city,” where a not-so-secret society known as the Electric Company meets. The multicultural cast of four semi-superheroes has pledged to use their powers for good — they can scramble, recall, project and animate words in astounding ways — but plotting against the Company is a clutch of comical misfits known as the Pranksters. Producers had the pilot shot with the Panasonic AG-HVX200 and had a good experience with the P2 workflow. When series director of photography Bill Berner came on board, he saw an opportunity to make the show as cinematic as possible. “They were looking for a fairly high-style show on a limited dollar,” describes Berner, whose credits include Sesame Street and The Cosby Show. “When I was brought in, I very much wanted to do the show with a 2⁄3"-format HD chip because I wanted to reduce the depth of field.” Berner ran a series of tests on a battery of 2⁄3" P2 cameras, including the AG-HPX500, AJ-HPX2000 and AJ-HPX3000. In the end, the HPX3000 was chosen for a number of reasons, one of www.dv.com I f you were a kid during the early-to-mid 1970s, chances are you spent more than a few afternoons parked in front of the television watching PBS’s remarkably hip educational series The Electric Company. Twenty years of reruns and two successful DVD releases later, the show’s lasting endurance serves as a reminder of its nearly 40-year influence on the minds of both adults and children. That popularity is what prompted Sesame Workshop (nee Children’s Television Workshop) to relaunch the educational franchise for a contemporary audience, with a focus on contemporary issues, in a contemporary style. The new Electric Company retains the original’s focus on reading skills and is aimed at the same dv january 2009 20 PHOTOS BY ANTHONY CAUSI http://www.dv.com
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