L'Étape Tour de France Cyprus race captured by Backlight Media for the event's promotional campaign
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Production/ 2023
Tour de France · L'Étape Cyprus

Filmed live across the island. Cut for the campaign.

[ The problem ]

L'Étape is the Tour de France's own mass-participation race, staged across the Cyprus coast. This was not a broadcast. It was a logistical challenge: Cyprus did not yet have trained personnel who could cover a race like this on the move. The event's marketing team needed the day captured as it happened, then shaped into promotional media that could carry the campaign afterwards.

[ What we did ]
  1. 01Cast the crew Cyprus did not yet have: riders on capable bikes who could shoot for hours and manoeuvre safely inside a live race.
  2. 02Built a lean, deliberate unit to protect the budget: two videographers, five photographers, two safety motorbikes and two drones, an FPV and an Inspire.
  3. 03Captured the race live across the island as it unfolded.
  4. 04Edited the material into promotional content for the event's marketing team.
[ Outcome ]

A logistically demanding race day, run with a lean specialist crew, became a library of promotional media under the Tour de France brand, delivered to the marketing team.

2Drones · FPV + Inspire
5Photographers
2Videographers
[ From the day ]
A rider crosses the L'Étape Cyprus start gantry at first light, captured on the day by Backlight Media, Tour de France mass-participation race in Cyprus
Start line, first light
The peloton streams down a tree-lined road in golden light at L'Étape Cyprus, the Tour de France race, filmed by Backlight Media in Cyprus
The peloton, on the move
Riders climb a forested mountain road on the L'Étape Cyprus route, Tour de France, shot on the day by Backlight Media in Cyprus
The climb, deep in the pines
A cyclist rides the coast road past wind turbines and the sea at L'Étape Cyprus, the Tour de France race, captured on the day by Backlight Media in Cyprus
Coast road, wind and sea
The peloton rides past a domed Cypriot church at golden hour during L'Étape Cyprus, the Tour de France race, filmed by Backlight Media in Cyprus
Past the old church

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