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pondmonkey
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Topic: How to make Sailing more 'Televisual' Posted: 16 Aug 12 at 12:39pm |
oh christ no... I only watched it online at work* and when feeding kids in the evening. If I had 'free time' to go and do some sailing myself during the Olympics, I'd have been down the beach at Hayling or at the local pond. * even work was more exciting than the 49er coverage
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a_dowley
Far too distracted from work Joined: 08 Dec 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 203 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 16 Aug 12 at 12:45pm |
This is something the Tornado Class have been working on for the past few years.
Some of you may have seen Tornado Speed Sailing, we've had some big sponsors across the World such as Audi and AXA on board. Close racing, close to the shore, quick turn around races, awesome commentator to explain what's happening. Close to the shore also means big wind shifts which can take the sailors from hero to zero. Do this and the racing never gets far away, you can see and hear what is happening on the boats. The boats also don't spread out as much. You can run up to 10 races in a 2 hour period. See the video. Cheers Andrew
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SoggyBadger
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 16 Aug 12 at 1:09pm |
I went sailing I would watch programmes about sailing/boating (like many of my generation it was Swallows & Amazons on the telly that go me interested in sailing) but it would have to be things like programmes about Thames Barges and the like to get me watching. |
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Best wishes from deep in the woods
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ASok
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 16 Aug 12 at 2:27pm |
Apologies if this has already been posted - http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/08/irishman-gives-expert-olympic-sailing-commentary-video
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Teamvmg
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Aug 12 at 1:55pm |
I don't think that you will ever get better equipement for televising sailing than was at Weymouth. I think it was badly used.
To suddenly cut away from a start at 30 seconds to go in order to interview someones bloody mother on the Nothe was totaly Crass. There was too much zooming in of individual boats too. Wider shots along start lines and gate roundings, cameras filming across the front of the fleet as it moves upwind.... stuff like that to allow us and the commentators to follow and explain things. When you watch a bike or car race on TV, you have a regular pattern of camera angles as the racers go round the track. This gets you used to the format and thus follow the race. If the director is flashing camera angles around like a bloody pop video - no one can follow it! In fact.... get me to direct it! SARGESAIL can do the commentary. Can any of you lot handle computer graphics and on the water commentary and RIB driving and cameras?
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