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Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace
I'm going to be pretty blunt here:
All Show Ready, A/V, or any production staff should always be physically paired with a knowledgeable FIRST person.
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Carolyn..you are totally correct. I will give an example.
We had to come out on the field to make sure we could connect on Thursday morning. We were on Newton. We had some time... I spoke with the camera people...They had no clue what the game was about or what was going to happen.
I happily went over the game with them and suggested some areas of special interest that they might want to look for (ie coopertition area during quals, the recycling cans at the beginning, the human loading areas... the landfill... the scoring positions... I tried to help them see how the action would evolve on the field so they could understand what people might want to see.
I don't know if this ended up with a better product for Newton but they were hungry to find out what they needed to do. It seemed that no one had even gone over the game with them.
I checked back with them during quals and tried to see if they had any questions.
Life behind a camera for all of those hours can be pretty boring... especially when they have no one giving them any critique of how they are doing things. They can't even see what they are producing because someone else must be doing the production (camera switching,... etc)
At the end I went back, thanked them for their work and asked them if they had a good time and they smiled and said yes. I may have been one of very few that ever even talked to them during the entire time. I hope that wasn't true....
Putting a knowledgeable FIRST person with them who could assess the shots and the way thing were handled could have really made the production better. The little help I could provide might have been something but putting someone with a good idea of what people want to see is vital.
One of the reasons our PNW video crews put out a good product is that they are all team affiliated... many are students.... they know what THEY want to see... and they go after it.
I think all of the good video production that is going on is due in great part to the people doing it and their knowledge of the game and what those watching want and need to see.
Yes the equipment is important...but the people operating the equipment are more important. My hat goes off to all of the PNW video staff for the entire year and what they accomplished. I am sure the other video crews from around the rest of FIRST can say the same thing....
thanks for bringing this up Carolyn