I don’t know when we first talked but I remember the conversation vividly. “I have an idea that may be a gamechanger that I want to get your thoughts on” was how the conversation started. “It’s an audio device that takes care of everything.”
Fall sports are just around the corner, which means many schools are looking for ways to reach a larger audience for their football games and other sports programs.
The email started with “Thank you. I felt like a hero.”
Recently, I reconnected with Henry Engineering products in an AH-HA moment.
Whether you’re doing a radio or TV sportscast, audio is always major part of the broadcast.
One of the things that I have worn as a badge of honor since I began teaching is finding ways to impress the “not so informed” with shiny things during our broadcasts.
Broadcasting sporting events without a narrator can leave a viewer feeling storyless.
The types of microphones being used and microphone placement is determined during the planning phase.
The crack of the bat. The rising voice of the excited announcer.
In this article, we will look at how this process works, who works on the shows, and briefly discuss the different types of shows that are typically produced.
The essentials of audio recording are not very complicated.
During a live event, a camera operator is a crucial element in the production.
Many moons ago, graphics were shot with white letters on a black board and superimposed over video.
Live events have a great sense of uncertainty and thus provide a great challenge to a director.
Live video productions offer a number of creative challenges for a crew, and those challenges are amplified with live sports productions.
So how do you go from filming sporting events at one high school to filming multiple sporting events at multiple locations?
Get in the game of live streaming your sports.
Thanks to increasingly affordable methods and steadily improving technology, live-streaming is becoming more and more popular for high schools to broadcast events.
Internet broadcasting – webcasting – is just beginning to explode.
It’s a promising power tool for school sports.
Editing is a much unappreciated part of the sports reporting process.
A sports production will utilize a variety of camera types, unique point-ofview shots, extremely long telephoto lenses and different kinds of camera mounts.
Depending on how many individual camera units you are blessed with for a particular production, each can be generally designated in one of these types.
Directing style during action elements of a sporting event must be basically invisible.
The single most critical production value in sports coverage is the need to know where the ball is at all times.
Whatever the sport, we can divide coverage planning into three variables the director should understand.
Our cameras need to be placed in the best locations to follow the athletes as well as capture the excitement of the moment.
While the production process is the most glamourous part of the business, the planning phase is where the majority of the decisions are made.
Finding an internet video streaming service can be a little daunting. There are a few questions you should ask yourself before you make your decision on which service to use.
Live remote events are the core of television. They are the one thing television can do that no other medium can match.
In the broadcasting business, technology changes daily.
