Prime Television has been the UK’s leading supplier of broadcast minicams and robotic cameras for nearly ten years. In that time we have supplied a wide variety of specialist minicameras and remote control heads. These have been used either as single camera units (one-off specialist shot) for an undercover surveillance element, as on-car/motorcycle mounted camera or a multicamera remote head and fixed minicam HD production.
In our long history in this field we have supplied cameras to all areas of the entertainment industry, including; reality shows, hard hitting documentaries, dramas, sports coverage, TV commercials and news and current affairs programmes. Now we offer full OB units that are minicam and remote camera specific and live streaming for radio stations from strategically placed minicams within the studios.
When taking a holiday snap or family photo more often than not it is the picture that is not staged but the unexpected shot that is remembered and makes it to the photo album or Facebook page rather than the carefully set up one. Over the years Prime has created classic programme content with their hidden camera expertise, so much so that in the early days of their concealed camera productions (The BBC ‘Sack Race’ in 2004) there were press articles suggesting the shots were staged.
Prime showed off their expertise at the Production show in 2004 by installing eight hidden minicams in a Smart car and offering a prize to anyone who could find them. No one ever found all eight !
We have rigged numerous hidden camera shoots in people’s houses, using remote cameras and fixed cameras, where the owner of the house has not known he is being filmed/shot from multiple angles. The success of these sequences makes it hard to believe the shots are not staged.
Prime are able to deploy large teams to work on complicated TV shows where we combine the use of our minicams, robotic heads, PSC shooting, Jimmy Jibs and Polecams or hide cameras in just about any environment.
If you are thinking minicameras in the form of hidden cameras, a multicamera production in a confined space, a reality show or undercover surveillance element, there is no better call you can make then calling Prime…