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Originally Posted by Bob Steele
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
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I was going to say something similar. For the other aspects the SRE people know what needs to be done and have done it before. However for the video you really need someone behind the camera and switcher who knows/plays the game and shows what they would want to see which most of the time will be what the audience wants to see. Sure there will always be cases where that big play is missed because they can't have a camera focused on every robot all of the time.
Of course in the PNW district the district volunteers and staff run every aspect of the production at the district events. At the DCMP a production company is hired and they provide the lighting and audio though the video and streaming was done by some of the same people who handled it at the district events.