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Documentary of the Olympic Broadcasting Services' delivery of the Opening Ceremony through the eyes of the director, Simon Staffruth, to the work of the various departments responsible for bringing the Winter Olympic Games competition action to television channels and digital streaming platforms around the world.
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00:02I think the use of drones has been I would say a game-changer for the Olympic
00:07Games. I don't think in the Olympics we've seen that kind of drone usage
00:11before. We knew that that would be the case. We used it extensively even in
00:17places like sliding and speed skating which had never been done before. For the
00:23first probably time people had the opportunity through this coverage to
00:28feel in their body what it is to be doing this sports. We have always done very
00:33comprehensive coverage with a lot of cameras showing every detail of the
00:39competition. But I think this time through the use of the drones maybe a lot
00:45of people felt in their stomach what it is to be going downhill with 100
00:49kilometers or what it is to be driving the bobsleigh with 160 kilometers. A normal
00:55drone is more like cinematic style footage so it's really smooth and it
00:59gives always a horizontal view and it's really a quiet kind of shot and with
01:05the FPV drone it's fast you can get really close to the subject. I think it's
01:11really nice to broadcast with this drone because you can really get a feeling of
01:14the speed that our leads are going and you can get really close to the to the
01:19action. This is something that's never been done before but I'm really excited to be
01:24part of that the project. This is something that you know the athletes
01:28haven't seen before and people on TV haven't as well and it's a really tight
01:32space there's no margin for error for me as the drone pilot left right up and down
01:37there's only one path I can take and I need to match the speed of the athletes as
01:41well so doing this consistently throughout the whole games is the biggest challenge.
01:46I think through that and I hope that many young people will think well I want to do
01:52this. I think this connection of people experiencing a major event and feeling in
01:57their body that they want to be like that I think that it's being achieved in
02:02this games in the special way.

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