During a dress rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Macbeth” in February, Felipe Barral was laser-focused on a wall of split-screen monitors displaying about a dozen feeds from video cameras strategically placed around the auditorium. The director of the Atlanta Opera Film Studio was inside a booth at the back of the house in the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre where he had set up a mobile control center.
Each frame captured different perspectives of the stage, from sweeping wide shots to intimate close-ups. Barral examined each monitor for composition, contrast, angles and color balance.
