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Re: ZOOM OUT!
I think this is a critical message that First needs to understand.
These videos are not just for people in the stands. They are webcast, broadcast, recorded to DVD's, teams use them for scouting...
Please tell the camera crews to stop flipping their camera on its side, or rolling it over and over for 5 or 10 seconds at a time. These matches are only 2 minutes long, and missing 15 seconds of it is analogous to missing 8 minutes of a hockey game. Can you imagine the reaction of the fans if the NFL decided to spin their cameras in circles instead of showing the game?
You don't have to have the whole field in view the whole time, but I've seen constant complaints regarding the amount of zooming in on robots, and I have to agree wholeheartedly. I know that my team, watching the webcast and trying to see what's actually happening, gets very irritated when the camera folks start trying to make it "more interesting".
On showing the DVD to several other folks to promote first, they've also commented on the fact that from the camera shots it's very, very difficult to tell what's going on because their view is so limited.
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