Back in March, Apple Vision Pro customers were gifted a new experience called Debut at the BBC Proms, a 35-minute Apple Immersive Video concert featuring Lukas Sternath performing Grieg at Royal Albert Hall.
Now a wonderful behind-the-scenes interview with director Ian Russell shows what it took to film classical music for Vision Pro.
According to CineD, the production used five Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive cameras, each with two 8K sensors, and was produced by Livewire Pictures for BBC Arts. Russell says this was not just a Vision Pro version of a normal BBC broadcast.
“This was a completely separate recording,” Russell told us. “There was obviously an audio recording made, but the only video recording made of Lukas’s concert was the Apple Immersive recording.”
The interview digs into the practical and creative constraints: fixed 180-degree lenses, limited room around a full orchestra, Apple’s guidance to keep the cameras roughly a meter away from objects, and the challenge of directing when viewers can look wherever they want.
