Spanish Television makes the bravest Goya Awards gala shine

RTVE moved two mobile units to Malaga from which it covered the red carpet and the ceremony at the Teatro del Soho in Malaga for the Goya Awards whose greatest challenge was alternating in-person guests with more than 200 remote contributions.

Spanish Radio Television has returned for another year to bring the excitement of the red carpet and the awards ceremony closer. Goya Awards which, marked by the health crisis and in the most difficult year for the cultural industry, has been special and different due to its hybrid nature.

In the vicinity of Grand Hotel Miramar in Malaga, where the red carpet took place (broadcast by La 1 and TVE Internacional) along which the award givers, the only in-person guests, paraded, as well as in the streets surrounding the Soho Theater In the capital of the Costa del Sol where the gala took place, public radio and television deployed its mobile units.

The actor from Malaga Antonio Banderas and the journalist Maria Casado have debuted as directors, presenters and scriptwriters of an impeccable, elegant and brilliant film produced by the Film Academy in collaboration with Theater Soho Television, which was executive produced by Ana Amigo, Yousaf Bokhari, Butcher Sun y Rafael Portela, con Manel Iglesias as delegate producer and the realization of Jordi Vives. The veteran TVE director impeccably completed his first Goya gala, the most technically complex to date.

Las more than 210 contributions live with Zoom and backpacks (LiveU y Aviwest), whose management he was in charge Mediapro, brought all the nominees closer to the ceremony.

The ceremony had an elegant scenography conceived by Alejandro Andujar with lighting design Iñaki Lastorza. Flights audiovisuals y Cinelux have been the companies supplying the stage equipment deployed at the Soho Theatre.

The graphic image This scene took place in the Catalan studio Nine Eyes, while the headers and on-air curtains were conceived in the independent graphic design and branding studio based in Barcelona, They are not.

Technical deployment

For the production of the gala from Laß moved to Soho in Malaga, TVE had 14 cameras (Sony HDC-1500) equipped with lenses Fujinon y Canon next to two Blackmagic Pocket to capture subjective shots of the orchestra and a steadycam. This unit has a mixer Snell Kahuna HD (Grass Valley) and an audio console Yamaha PM1D.

In order to ensure the highest quality in intercommunication in a complex space like the Soho Theatre, the production team chose to have a matrix of intercom digital Artist that together with a Standalone of Bolero of Riedel They ensured a clear signal at any point thanks to a synchronized low-latency TDM network, being a plug-and-play solution that avoids the hassle of an IP configuration.

Servers XT2 de EVS next to the solution IP Director They served once again to launch videos, bursts of nominees, curtains, highlights and synchronization of reproductions of up to six graphics in the live windows of the nominees. TVE used the solution study of Brainstorm both for labeling the nominees, presenters and deliverers as well as the closing credits of the gala.

Regarding the audio of the ceremony, Roc Mateu y Guiu Llusà They were in front, together with Ferran Martin y Jordi Ballbé as monitor and orchestra technicians respectively.

The tables that operated the gala were Avid S6L y Digico SD9. It was sent to PM1 of TVE managed by Javier Contreras for its mixing with the statements of Carlos del Amor and its subsequent sending to Torrespaña.

Hybrid red carpet

The signal for this historic hybrid red carpet (in person, with the guests at the gala in Malaga, and virtual, with the nominees from home), was carried out from the ONE G01 of TVE at the Gran Hotel Miramar with the help of 6 Sony HDC-1500 cameras, a hot head, an autonomous RF camera and a backpack camera for live contributions to the different news programs.

Both mobile units were connected through satellite earth stations, being able to share some of the signals and linking (with backup signal) in turn with Torrespaña for the distribution of the signal through Cellnex.

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