Cameras and Audio for PINKS

Speed Channel’s series Pinks is deceptively simple looking. People get together, drag race down a strip, and there’s a winner and a looser.

But it’s actually a “reality” show, which means more than a dozen cameras: 9 on-shoulder cameras covering each of the key talent members, 10 POV cameras moved from car to car, and EVERYONE has a body mic!

I took a moment to grab this camera phone shot in the setup room where we outfitted the cameras, audio bags, and set up the receiver array system that recorded some 24 channels all discretely to hard drive, in addition to what was recorded in the camcorder itself. That’s a lot of redundancy. But in a high energy show like this, you need redundancy to make sure you get all the exciting little bits onto the TV screen at program time.

Just a small portion fo the cameras used on Pinks.