ONE Event Live

ONE Event is an annual Christian festival, drawing thousands to the Lincolnshire Showground over the autumn bank holiday weekend to camp together in hundreds of tents, sharing access to a small army of portable toilets and showers.

2020 presented a bit of a challenge!

Determined to still put on a show and gather together, Ground Level decided to go all out in putting on a live studio version of the event from the showground, with programming over the weekend hosted on YouTube Live and their website.

Peachy Events built an incredible set along with socially-distanced workstations for the crew.

Working with Alive Media as a part of the video production for the streamed event, we recorded a set of worship songs on site to play back over the weekend. Socially distanced in the fields where thousands would usually be gathering; it was an image that really worked to bring us together despite only being able to tune in online.

Plugged-In AV did an amazing job of capturing audio over a couple of pretty windy evenings. Meanwhile I headed up a volunteer team to capture video. We pooled our resources to pull together a set of DSLR and mirrorless cameras and made it happen, ending up with a real assortment of cameras from Canon, Sony and Panasonic. I spent a good amount of time before the shoot setting each up to capture as similar and neutral an image as possible, so it took just a bit of colour curves massaging to match them up.

The colour grade doubled down on conforming colours, focusing in on skin tone and a warm green.

Despite the pandemic, thousands were still able to gather and celebrate online. Here's a short section from one of the songs, 'Here Again':