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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved

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Originally Posted by 1885.Blake View Post
The directing and camera work on the video sent out to the NASA channel and the webcasts. I simply don't think that the folks doing it are familiar enough with the subject matter to produce an excellent product for their audiences.

I have little doubt that they are fine craftsmen, but as a viewer, I felt that they far too often concentrated on the wrong things or on the right things at the wrong times.
You have to remember why they are producing the video. Their primary goal is to produce video for the big screen at the event. They nicely allow us to webcast and archive their feed, but that's not the reason they are there. The production company used by FIRST has been involved for a long time - they know what they're doing and I'm pretty certain they understand the subject matter.

The problem is, things that would be good for the webcasts (like a wide view of the full field) don't work well for the big screen at the event. People at the event can already see the whole field so they're more interested in close-ups.