Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes there is a lot that goes on. Here are some shots to give you an idea of what is happening. Here is the cabling that goes under a bridge covering a road that is not being used right now. These cables come out of NIS and go over to our broadcast compound. You also see the tower on which the cables of the catcam are placed. The catcam is called such because when it is seen....it looks like a skinned carcas of a dead cat. The catcam tower is in our compound and the cables go inbetween NIS and NAC and another set over to the BirdsNest.

There are also shots of the trucks, from AlfaCam that are back with us this time around as well. Actually they are not trucks...they are buses. So when I go to work...I hop on a bus :)

Each bus has two production facilities within them so they are covering two apparatus at Gymnastics. The fron deck can do bars whilst the back deck is covering floor. All of the Graphics operators are in a cabin with me next to the trucks.

You see in another picture a blue truck with another truck behind it. These are from France...and the blue truck is getting a test drive at the Olympics. It has only done one other event. These Games are breaking it in. It is really cool inside and all HD.

You see some people are doing their laundry here as well. Thoser are folks from JC {Japan Consortium} and so I wonder if they are trying to make a new laundry service for us at the Olympics.

There is again a lot of cables running around the venue and such....and I have tried to show some of that with these pictures. I don't have any stats on the amount of cabling this time around but it is huge. At my venue alone we have 9 graphics operators, the most of any venue. I have 7 for Gymnastics and then 2 for the aquatics sports. Here are some of the folks at Aquatics with me all the time. Some Aussies and Italians and Swiss. All floating around with many Japanese.