South Elgin vs. Grant - Varsity Basketball - Hinkle Holiday Classic - ID# 126

South Elgin

Live Event Coverage Sports

Entry Description

Clip from live coverage from South Elgin vs. Grant at the Hinkle Holiday Classic in December 2019. Submitted for live announcing by Andy Jachim and Austin Giesey.

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Recent Teacher Comments

• 3/28 10:11 am - We must see the ball at all times - even on the floor cam under the basket. Great job by the sales staff to get sponsored replays & time-outs. Normally the live action is from the up cams and the replay is from the floor cams. The wide up cam is clearly downhill-right. Never seen dissolves used for live sports telecast; they slow the mood/tone of the content; why slow the mood of an exciting athletic contest? Floor cam needs to decide ahead of time to stick with coach/bench or stick with players returning to floor after huddle. 1:48 - why take this shot? Combination of framing bottom of screen and score graphic result in cutting-off players legs on the wide up cam; tilt down. Why isn't the tight up cam used for hero shots? Announcers were good.
• 3/5 4:05 pm - -Too much reliance on goal camera in the beginning. -The rest of the clip I only saw your cover cam. +Liked the replay.

Judge 1

Positives: The sponsorship read came in pretty smoothly and was well-documented by the play-by-play announcer. The announcers built good drama on the missed 3/layup late in the segment.

Improvements: Why is the main camera under the basket? That's an odd angle to watch the game from. I actually assumed that you didn't have a center court camera, but you do. Use that more. The viewer will appreciate it. The announcers talked over each other a few times. There's no need to rush. There's time for each of you.

Judge 2

Positives: The camera and decision on the first play worked smoothly with the action on the court, Both play by play and color analyst were a nice tandeum with the call.

Improvements: The timeout is a good time to review the comeback. Would like to know more about the players that provided the comeback. Timeouts are good for a chyron on the scoring.

Judge 3

Positives: The announcers were energetic and engaging. They didn’t talk over one another and worked well at collaborating the play of the game. The sounds of the game were really well! A nice blend of the announcers, crowd, court and replay wipe sound effects. Cameras shots worked well and were color balanced. The game wide-shot camera had smooth pans and wasn't tilting and moving all over the place. Nice use of promo card slates for fill time. The score-strip graphic is appealing and simple.

Improvements: The play announcer audio was mixed well, the color announcer’s mic was a little off-mic or could have be gained down a bit. Although there is a lot of good things to say, one thing I can say production wise that I’m a little nit-picky that could be different is when you are coming out of a replay, don't animate out to the same camera the replay was showing such as wide shot to wide shot, it could have replay wiped-out to a huddle of players from the lower handheld cams. Overall the announcers did a terrific job and the directing was great!

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