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A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME
Previous pages: Fujinon is testing its PL-mount 8K
SK35-700 box lens with a variety of cameras, including
the Sony Venice and Arri Amira, to achieve a cinematic
look without sacrificing the need for zoom capability.
This page: The Fox Sports team preps to shoot the
" Field of Dreams " game in Iowa.
" I'll use wide sweeping shots of the ballpark,
often including the thick ivy on the outfield
walls and huge pillars behind home plate. "
F
ox Sports made history on Aug. 12, 2021, by broadcasting
the first modern Major League Baseball game from Iowa
- specifically, from a certain famed cornfield with a diamond
built into it. This was also the first regular-season
game to be shot with the programming division's new
gimbal-mounted cine-style camera rigs for a live broadcast.
A key goal of the game was to commemorate the
classic 1989 movie Field of Dreams, and to make this cornfield a hardball
heaven again, at least for one night.
If You Build It
Upon its release, Field of Dreams - directed by Phil Alden Robinson and
shot by John Lindley, ASC (now the President of ICG Local 600) - reengaged
millions of American fans with their national pastime. The
Fox Sports " Field of Dreams " broadcast aimed to bolster that same connection
to baseball during the current UHD era, which may now be on
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the cusp of regularly incorporating the " film look " into other televised
major-league sports as well - including football, basketball, golf and
hockey. The " Field of Dreams " broadcast was the culmination of two
years of planning and preparation, delayed by more than a year due to
the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fox Sports has been at the vanguard of the budding marriage between
sportscasting and moviemaking since at least late 2020. " We've
been talking quite a bit about using cine tools to inject cinematic elements
into our broadcast commemorating one of the best baseball movies
ever, " says Mike Davies, senior vice president of field and technical
operations at Fox Sports.
To achieve this goal, in addition to deploying their normal complement
of Sony HDC-4300L ⅔ " 3-chip 4K cameras and other broadcast
models, Fox strategically enlisted various specialty units, including several
drones, with at least two in the air at all times. One of the drones was
equipped with a Red Komodo, which captured imagery of Iowa's rolling
PHOTO ON THIS PAGE COURTESY OF FOX SPORTS. PHOTO ON PREVIOUS PAGES COURTESY OF FUJIFILM.

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