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TNDV captures “Kidz Bop” concert movie with Aspiration 35 and Arri Alexa 35 Live cameras

TNDV, an entertainment-based mobile and REMI production company, was on site at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, to capture live concert footage for “Kidz Bop Live: The Concert Movie”, released to theaters through North America on January 2, 2026.

TNDV, one of three divisions of Live Media Group (along with Live Media and Gametime Productions), marked its first motion picture shoot using its flagship Aspiration 35 digital cinema truck and an integrated Arri Alexa 35 Live multicamera workflow, bringing the “Kidz Bop” tour experience to the big screen.

The concert film was captured during a single tour stop on August 30, 2025, where the “Kidz Bop” team recorded the show as they normally would for the road, but with TNDV’s broadcast-grade infrastructure functioning as a full cinematic control room. Inside Aspiration 35, producers and creatives were able to view every camera live, communicate instantly with operators, and direct coverage in real time while recording the performance in-camera for post-production editing.

“This was truly cinema meets broadcast”, says Dakota Russ, TNDV’s engineer-in-charge for the production. “The tour kept its normal pace, but the truck gave the director and DP the ability to see everything, hear everything, and talk to everybody as fast as possible.”

The concert was captured using a large-scale camera complement - including twelve Arri Alexa 35 Live cameras - plus additional specialty and remote positions to cover every moment onstage and throughout the venue. The setup, with support from TNDV partner dbV Rentals, included multiple front-of-house positions, a Technocrane, Steadicam, a Movi rig, two Agito systems, and additional robotic cameras.

Russ and JJ Hacker, who co-led TNDV’s truck operations for the project, oversaw the signal flow, multiviewers, intercom routing, monitoring distribution, and overall production infrastructure. At the same time, the crew maintained full cinema-style practices, including dedicated focus pullers, assistants, and utilities.

While the primary recordings were captured in-camera in a traditional film workflow, TNDV provided critical synchronization and reference support throughout the show. The truck supplied continuous timecode to all camera heads, ensuring full-system sync without the need to manually jam every camera. TNDV also produced a reference recording of the multiviewer with burn-in timecode, giving post teams an immediate way to locate moments and compare camera angles quickly during edit.

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