EMG / Gravity Media, a world leading global provider of complex live creative production and media services, today detailed EMG / Gravity Media Australia’s broadcast technology and television production undertakings to deliver the upcoming Beyond Productions’ feature documentary Cold Chisel: The Big Five-0 for the Seven Network.
EMG / Gravity Media Australia was selected by production company, Beyond Productions, to deliver the broadcast technology and production undertaking for Cold Chisel’s recent live performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, deploying one of its major state-of-the-art outside broadcast trucks, 12 cameras, and a crew of 48 delivering a front-row seat to a night of electrifying moments as a sea of impassioned fans sings along to every word, creating a thunderous chorus that drowns out even the band itself.
Cold Chisel: The Big Five-0 is a concert full of incredible emotion, raw power, and more than a few tears. Celebrating five decades of iconic anthems that have been burned into Aussie culture forever – including Khe Sanh, Flame Trees, Choirgirl and When The War Is Over – Cold Chisel has defined what it means to be Australian. Now their story takes centre stage. From Adelaide’s Largs Pier Hotel to the biggest stages in the country, Cold Chisel forged their own path, earning their place as true Aussie rock royalty and making household names of Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Don Walker, Steve Prestwich and Phil Small.
With exclusive interviews, archive footage and rare photographs from the band, Cold Chisel: The Big Five-0 helps explore the lasting impact of Cold Chisel, and uncovers why their music continues to mean so much to so many.
Cold Chisel: The Big Five-0 is a Beyond Productions feature documentary produced in association with the Seven Network. Writer/producer Paul Clarke is a renowned filmmaker with previous award-winning and celebrated work including the 2024 TV Week Logie Award-winning documentary John Farnham: Finding The Voice, Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line and Blood and Thunder.
Directed by Andrew Lord (Splendour in the Grass), the film is also produced by Frank Chidiac (Live it Up: The Mental as Anything Story, Great Australian Concerts) and Susanne Morrison (Live it Up: The Mental as Anything Story, Great Australian Concerts), line produced by Fiona Hewish, with Mikael Borglund and Robert Hambling as executive producers.
Writer/Producer Paul Clarke said: “We approached this production in a non-conventional way, using film cameras around the stage, OB long lenses, IMAG cameras, lots of steadicam shots in the audience, fly cams and drones and the latest minicams around the band.
“From the start to the end, Gravity kept solving all the problems. Their team was incredible and we have a Cold Chisel moment in a bottle that will last for decades.”
According to Marcus Doherty, Account Executive, Media Services and Facilities at EMG / Gravity Media Australia: “All of us at EMG / Gravity Media thank Beyond Productions for selecting us to deliver the broadcast outcome for Cold Chisel’s performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl as part of their Big Five-0 Tour and the delivery of an outstanding event and production for the Seven Network.”
Along with the Cold Chisel: The Big Five-0 undertaking, EMG / Gravity Media Australia in recent months has also delivered broadcast technology and production outcomes for the ARIA Awards, the AACTA Awards, Carols in the Domain and the New South Wales School Spectacular. EMG / Gravity Media was also the broadcast production and technology provider for the Mushroom 50 Live Anniversary concert.
Through its studios, production, post-production, outside broadcast facilities and specialist camera technologies, EMG / Gravity Media Australia is currently involved with major production companies, television networks and pay television and streaming platforms in Australia across projects including The Voice, Australian Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Australia’s Got Talent, The 1% Club and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
EMG / Gravity Media Australia’s post-production centre, Gravity House, plays a key role in the production of major international television productions across broadcast, subscription and streaming platforms, as well as movie projects from international studios, and many of Australia’s leading independent films.
EMG / Gravity Media Australia’s acknowledged broadcast technology and production partnerships across major sports in Australia include the Australian Open and the Summer of Tennis, the Melbourne Cup and all major horse racing events in Australia, The A-Leagues, Bathurst 1000 and Repco Supercars Championship, Cricket Australia, Tour Down Under, Cadel Evans Road Race, the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Stawell Gift, and Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.