Team Ferro had quite the day here in Indianapolis on this Super Bowl Wednesday.   The morning consisted of two shoots: an ENG at the team practice facility with NYG Equipment Manager Joe Skiba, and a fully produced sit-down discussion at the team hotel with Howard Cross and the Giants Tight Ends.  The crew stopped down for lunch around noon, and it was at that time when some unanticipated news was relayed to the guys.

Today marked the first day of rehearsal for the Super Bowl Halftime Show at Lucas Oil Stadium.  NFL Officials informed the crew that they needed to have their entire set removed from the stadium by 3 PM because the building was going to be used exclusively for halftime rehersals for the remainder of the week.  This was quite the curveball for Ferro.  The breathtaking set at the stadium that took the crew four hours to build now needed to be removed, transported to the hotel, and rebuilt… all before 6 o’clock.  WHY 6 o’clock?  Well, every night this week the crew is shooting Giants Road to the Super Bowl for MSG, and the show needs to be taped, edited, and sent to “The Garden” via FTP all before it airs at 10:30 PM.

Keeping his calm, Executive Producer Joe Scacciaferro held a brief production meeting detailing exactly what needed to be done in order to get the show out in time for MSG.  After the meeting broke it was off to the races.  In little over an hour the crew managed to get to the stadium and strike the entire set.  Most of the equipment was able to go in the crew’s van, but there were two pieces that wouldn’t fit.  One of those being the Jib Camera.  It was time for a leap of faith.  Two members of the Ferro team literally walked the 13 foot CamMate Jib five blocks through the crowded streets of Indianapolis to the team hotel.

Where there’s a will there’s a way… and the crew proved that by transforming a hotel meeting room into a fully functional television set in two hours.  From the back drop to the control center, and everything in between… the set was built and the tapes were rolling by 6 o’clock.  After the show closed, the XD tapes were handed over to the Ferro/NYG editors and the show was sucessfully passed on to MSG in time for its 10:30 slot.

Another day is in the books here in Indianapolis as Super Bowl 46 approaches.  Stay tuned for much more here on the site AND make sure you visit Giants.com tomorrow to check out the Ferro produced “Social Media Livestream” at 6:30 PM….

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