OCTOBER 2015

The Voice is being produced in Joburg!

AMPN in conjunction with TALPA's new reality show : The Voice Angola auditions were shot in Angola, the footage then brought back to SA where the entire series was brought to life at Sasani studios.

Bladeworks Post Production Facilities has been involved from the beginning, as our DITs handle all footage. The show is shot at Sasani's brand new studios in Lyndhurst, using twelve cameras in studio and an ENG crew that shoots all the contestant interviews. A total of 17 terabytes of HD material are currently being managed using one of Bladework's three Isis linked into five Avid suites and all in Portuguese!

Final Mix is being done by Freq'ncy and the grade on the Baselight by Ciretta Frezza at Pudding.

The Voice Angola is currently airing on Sundays at 20:00 on Jango, a DSTV Channel.

Portuguese will be heard in the Bladeworks building until early 2016 when all edits are prepared for the live shows until the live finale at the end of January 2016. Obrigado!

JULY 2015

Power Couple do their post production at Blade.

Bladeworks were fortunate to be chosen by Afrokaans as their post production facility for the first season of Power Couple SA. Power Couple is a reality based show that will be launching on M-Net on the 10th of September 2015.

The show takes South African couples on a journey of love, power, trust and money as eight couples endure to win magic millions all while pushing their relationships to the brink.

Timeframe TV, Bladeworks and Afrokaans started their planning together at the beginning of the year. Timeframe supplied all camera gear and lighting on location in Cape Town.  Michael Yelseth performed a double role as the DOP and Technical Director of the shoot.

Blade supplied a 64 tb Isis, five Avids and DIT to start the post production process while shooting was taking place around Cape Town. Reality editors, Craig Bleksley and Andrew Dixon started their editing a day after the first shoot day thanks to the diligent DIT work of Blades Riaan van der Merwe.

All the raw media was backed up to LTO on site and after six weeks of shooting in Cape Town, the production migrated to Bryanston for Post Production. All five Avids and Isis were reintegrated into the Bladeworks facility for the next seven months of editing.

Our BFX team did a worldclass job in producing all the Power Couple graphic elements and even an App for the game part of the show.

The grades for the thirteen episodes were done on Baselight by Nic Apostoli and Ciretta Frezza from Pudding at Bladeworks. The audio was final mixed by Johan Theron from Kwazi Mojo.

“It is a privilege for Bladeworks entire chain of services to be part of South Africa’s newest reality show and we are looking forward to a continued fruitful relationship with Afrokaans.”- Warren Bleksley (General Manager - Bladeworks)

“Afrokaans Film & Television has built up a great working relationship with Blade on the post production of Power Couple. Blade’s professional staff and their can-do-attitude made an invaluable contribution to the final product of this exciting new international reality TV format.” –Handrie Basson (Owner- Afrokaans).

MAY 2015

So you have pitched your big concept to the broadcaster months ago, you have won the job but just need to sign the contract. Stuck between a rock and a hard place! Then to make things worse the delivery date for episode one has been moved forward by two weeks.

In an instant you need work space, edit suites and post production expertise to get you into production fast.
Bladeworks has the solution for you. Book a fly away kit that includes five Avid Media Composers all linked to a 64 TB Isis, or use one of our hubs at the Bladeworks Post production facility in Bryanston At the facility your team will have full access to the best high end edit tools and consistent, stable 300KVA power of the facility.

As an added benefit, the BladeDit team are available to DIT all the shoot material, manage the workflows and make the shoot material available to the editors a few hours after shoot.

It’s a complete turnkey post production solution that can be tailored to your specific requirements.

Contact Su-aad Mouton su-aad@bladeworks.co.za or Warren Bleksley warrenb@bladeworks.co.za for more information.

APRIL 2015

Bladeworks are the post production facility for AMPN’s 'I Love SA’ on ETV and Sing Off for SABC1. Both productions are offlined on our Avids linked to one of our three Isis and graded on Baselight.

FEBRUARY 2015

Bladeworks recently facilitated the post production of the reality game show called Holiday Swap for Launch Factory.
Three AVIDS were linked to our Isis and Baselight for grading. One avid was used to line up Multicam setups and sub-titling while the other two edit suites were used to cut the reality content.

Launch Factory recruited Siraaj Cassiem and Bruce Nkomo to cut the show on AVID and Ciretta Frezza from Pudding did the grade on Baselight. Riaan van der Merwe from Blade DIT took care of the data management on the Isis.
We look forward to working with Launch Factory on their next season Holiday Swap.

Holiday Swap is a brand new South African TV show where the drama of the Reality will unfold, against the beautiful backdrop of KZN. The show sees two teams of three friends compete in extraordinary holiday activities.

In each episode the teams are forced to participate outside of their comfort zone and will have to compete in various experiences to win points for their team

Two teams compete against each other for 3 episodes, and the team with the most points after 3 days will win their dream holiday. The thirteen part 24 minute show is an AFP that will broadcast on SABC 1 from the 9th of February 2015 at 18:00.

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