Sonisphere Festival

TV Production – Case Study

Blink TV filmed and produced Sonisphere festival for TV coverage across the world. Sonisphere, a touring metal festival, launched in 2009 with headliners Linkin Park and Metallica. We filmed the two-day event at the legendary Knebworth House, covering both the main stages and editing the content for broadcast on C4 in the UK and MTV’s Palladia HD channel in the US. The main creative objective was to capture the energy of the fans, and to do justice to a genre that is often under-represented on TV, despite its enormous international popularity. We wanted to create a metal program that was entertaining to the general music fan, as well as respectful to the devoted metal head. Backstage interviews – led by the musicians themselves – and fan footage from around the festival site were essential to delivering these objectives. The end result has subsequently been shown around the world to fantastic responses from broadcasters and fans. The production was so successful that the Sonisphere brand is now firmly established on the festival map.