Adagio Cantabile
Amazing Film Studios Amazing Film Studios came to the Studios at WGBH to shoot the symphony segments for their "The Tenants Downstairs" trailers. Lit by our Lighting Director Phil Reilly, the scenes featuring the Boston Chamber Orchestra performing Adagio Cantabile provided the perfect backdrop for the dramatic footage from the film.
MA Governors Debate 2018
WGBH is uniquely set up for high-end events in New England. In addition to a fully equipped studio and excellent staff, we have extensive experience managing high security shoots that involve press and live audiences.
Escape Lab: A live escape room competition on Twitch
On September 9th, 2019 WGBH's Emerging Platforms Group working with our Production Group team to live-stream to Twitch an Escape Room competition. The 12'x 30' escape room set was built by escape room specialists Trapology in WGBH’s Calderwood Studio. The escape room's theme was a laboratory in orbit over Mars and participants/astronauts had to solve a myriad of challenges in order to get safely back to earth. The production required three distinct teams to be in perfect synchronization. The Trapology team ran the escape room while the Production Group Studio team captured the event and live switched it for the feed to the Twitch team, which coordinated the online experience for the viewers. The control room had three studio camera feeds, several security camera feeds from the escape room, and go-pros on each astronaut in the game, which gave the viewers a point of view perspective. Viewers interacted with the "Mission Control" room to help the astronauts solve the puzzles to help them get back to earth safely. Watch and see for yourself: to.wgbh.org/escapelab!
"Great Thinkers" & "New Thinkers" - MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management shot all the studio elements for these series of programs in the Calderwood Studio at WGBH. The OutPost provided post production. The set included a large surround video wall to allow changeable elements for each segment of the series.
WGBH Close Encounters Spot
Shot in Calderwood Studio, this Close Encounters spoof was lit by our Lighting Director Phil Reilly, one of the best in the business.
Point Taken
Point Taken, a new public-affairs debate series for PBS, was produced by Studio Six with the Production Group at WGBH. Lensed in the Calderwood studio the program was shot in front of a live studio audience (with in-studio voting) between 6:30 and 7:30 pm. Six cameras and two switched feeds were recorded via Avid Airspeed to Isis storage. The content team then went into three edit rooms to cut the show to time and create material for social and digital consumption. At 10:30pm the final program was sent from Isis storage to Airspeed for broadcast at 11pm. The thirty minute show was passed through the WGBH control-room where live twitter comments were integrated into the stream. The program was live captioned at WGBH's caption center and live streamed through PBS' website and to Facebook.
Alan Cumming - Masterpiece Intro
Each year WGBH brings Alan Cumming into our studios to record the intros for several of their series.
"That's My Boy" - Happy Madison Productions
When Happy Madison Productions came looking in Boston for a spot to shoot scenes for "That's My Boy", they spent a week at WGBH. Lensed in one of our flex spaces they created a news studio in our Atrium, which is pre-wired for lighting.
High School Quiz Show
The Studio group at WGBH provides the set design and set elements, lighting, and full switched multi-camera production for the High School Quiz Show regional competition.
"Die Frau an Seiner Seite" - Van Wormer Productions
Van Wormer productions, based in Orlando Florida, came to WGBH to produce segments for their film for the ZDF German network. Shot with our crews and equipment over the course of a week, they made extensive use of our studios and other locations throughout the building.
Jeet Singh - "Hey"
Jeet Singh came to the Studios at WGBH to help fulfill the creative vision for his music video.
Women 2 Women - Al Aribya/The Rendon Group
The Rendon Group came to WGBH Studios for production support for their Women 2 Women studio production that aired on the Al Aribya network. W2W is part of the Empower Peace program founded by Rick Rendon http://www.epwomen2women.org/about.html Women2Women International Leadership program engages and identifies promising young women leaders, and trains them for developing those skills. Over 50 young international women participated in this intellectually stimulating discussion and presentation by special guest panelists.
NESN Town Hall Meeting
New England Sports Network came to WGBH to hold their annual town hall meeting in our Calderwood Studio. The event was switched and mixed in our control rooms and sent via fiber through The Switch back to NESN from where it was fed live to their audience.
<center> In January of 2016 WGBH News took over the lobby of the Radisson Hotel in Manchester NH to host daily radio and TV newscasts during the heat of the New Hampshire Presidential primary. The WGBH Studios Group built a full three camera television and radio studio and sent the camera and sound signals to the control rooms in Boston to be switched and fed live over the air on WGBH television and WGBH radio. Watch the time-lapse of building the set here. </center>
The OutPost
The OutPost provided the 5.1 surround mix for the trailer of this iconic PBS series.
NOVA: The Violence Paradox
FRONTLINE: League of Denial Frontline Senior Producer Michael Kirk wanted the football footage to have a unique feel, so all of those scenes were first made uniform and then a series of filters applied.
Filmmaker Beth Murphy spends a year following the first all-girls school in a conservative Afghan village.
FRONTLINE: My Brother's Bomber
An extremely challenging grade and mix, FRONTLINE's "My Brother's Bomber" followed Journalist Ken Dornstein across the middle east in search of those responsible for the planting a bomb on Pan Am flight 103. After the film aired the long-dormant case was re-opened and two new suspects were taken into custody.
FRONTLINE: Isis in Afghanistan