Biden’s Virtual Parade, ‘Celebrating America’ Special Relied on Hollywood Cloud-Based Production Carolyn Giardina
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Celebrating America primetime special brought together hundreds of disparate segments, including those from amateur dance teams to Hollywood stars and the ‘TikTok Doc.’ The result enabled participation from across the country amid the pandemic, with some help from Hollywood and an ambitious cloud-based remote postproduction workflow.
Hollywood postproduction facility SIM handled the post for the Glenn Weiss-helmed Kirshner Events production–what SIM’s vp engineering and technology Paul Chapman described as “getting the band back together” as it was a similar team and way of working that was assembled last summer to produce a virtual Democratic National Convention. Since the pandemic began, SIM has been active in a number of high-profile virtual events–include the
Post house SIM created a remote workflow to edit hundreds of segments including performances from the likes of Justin Timberlake, Demi Lovato and John Legend.
A virtual parade featuring stars, musicians, athletes and more will be live-streamed Wednesday to celebrate the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The "Parade Across America' will be streamed at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn into office on Inauguration Day. The virtual parade will feature performances from Jon Stewart, New Radicals, Nathan Apodaca, Jason Campbell and Earth, Wind & Fire.
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