RTVE redoubles its technological commitment at the Goyas 2024 with 19 cameras and a stage built from scratch

The broadcast of the Goyas 2024 has opted for the usual audiovisual display of RTVE, materialized in the form of 10 mobile units, the increase in cameras to 19 units, dozens of technical personnel deployed on site and all from a stage built from scratch at the Valladolid Fair.

Juan Carlos Carrasco, veteran RTVE director in charge of multiple recorded and live formats of the house, including all editions of Masterchef, has been responsible for acting as director of the 2024 Goya gala. Carrasco succeeds Jordi Vives, habitual en las últimas galas, asumiendo el importante desafío de producir este espectáculo de más de tres horas with a infraestructura construida dentro de uno de los pabellones del pabellón vallisoletano.

“El escenario este año ha supuesto un pequeño reto, porque al no haber ningún teatro con capacidad suficiente para las casi 2500 personas que se necesitaba de aforo, ha sido necesario construirlo: tanto el escenario, como la platea”, explica Carrasco, añadiendo que esto ha supuesto condicionantes como “un techo muy bajo” que, pese a todo, no ha impedido que el diseño de realización haya “quedado muy bien”.

Un año más, las LED screens Large formats play a fundamental role in RTVE production, solving space limitations and helping to improve the pace of broadcasting. Beyond visual resources on the stage to underpin the spectacular nature of the gala, the key resource has been the intermediate LED surface: "The entire awards gala has been designed with the screen closed. While it is like this, the backlines of all the musical numbers. Once ready, these doors have been opened, expanding the capacity of the stage for these important moments of the gala.”

A production with 19 cameras

Limitations or opportunities, depends on the filter through which the issue is observed. The setting up of the stage has made it possible to carefully study the position of the 19 cameras arranged to capture every detail of the awards ceremony, two more that in the 2023 edition held in Sevilla: “The design does not differ from previous stands, but it is true that some of the equipment we have included is a little more powerful and improves the staging.”

Specifically, the RTVE team under the direction of Carrasco has installed nine pedestal cameras, three RF cameras, a steadycam, a 15-meter hot head with a Blackmagic Studio Camera, a Spydercam Ross Video rented to System Grip, a tower cam on track, two PTZ Panasonic AW-UE160 located on rails on the stage and a final PTZ on tripod Fixed at the back of the stage.

The UM F-01, key mobile unit of the gala

As has been common in recent years, the mobile unit UM F 01 has assumed the principal operating muscle of the production of the Goya 2024 gala. Carrasco and his team have relied on equipment such as the Kahuna Maverik mixer from Grass Valley, multiple servers EVS, the MediorNet system of Riedel to carry out the transport of video, audio, data and intercom signals (managed with Bolero) or the mc² 96 sound table Theirs.

A second mobile unit has been responsible for produce extensive coverage of the red carpet with Elena S. Sánchez and Carlos del Amor interviewing nominees and award givers, and with Miriam Moreno and Rafa Muñoz commenting on the outfits. The broadcast has had an additional signal broadcast aimed at a young audience in RTVE Play, with Inés Hernand talking with the protagonists of the night.

Gestmusic (Banijay Iberia) has repeated as the producer in charge of the gala, under the direction of Tinet Rubira y Ángel custodian, executive produced by Rafael Portela, Valérie Delpierre y Carlo D'Ursi.

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