Drew – I thought that for a first go at producing a football highlights package, you did pretty well with filming and editing it. Your camera movements were too shaky at some points and you move the camera too much, almost every time the ball moved or a player on the ball moved, you moved the camera. The best way to do it is to find the ideal zoom level so that you don’t have to keep moving the camera when the ball moves, but it still lets the viewer see all of the action and the shot stays smooth.
I thought your editing was good though, you used all of the best chances except for one of Concord Rangers’ chances when the striker skied the ball when in a one on one with the keeper. I think Tate’s footage of that chance was quite good so you could have used the main camera shot as well as her footage of the chance in the highlights.
Also, your after watching Sportsweek back, I realised that your voiceover sounds too relaxed. You needed to put a bit more emphasis on certain words and give the whole thing a bit more ‘oomph’.
Tate – Your camerawork was pretty good considering it was the first time you had filmed a football match, my only complaint would be that you didn’t get the ball going over the line for Eastleigh’s goal, I saw the ball in the net but your camera movement was too jerky so I saw the ball being struck and then the ball in the net, but nothing in between.
Laura – Same as Tate really, the clips we managed to use were good and your footage of the Concord goal allowed Drew to combine his clip with yours to create a nice edit. To avoid the fans getting in the way at the next game, maybe move along a bit from where you were last Saturday. This will allow to get a better angle of the action if it is on the other side to where you are.
Lewis – After watching through your package a few times, I realised that it probably wasn’t up to standard, simply because of the interview. I was going through Sportsweek with Brian and he likened it to the TV programme Creature Comforts! Your voiceover was also a bit confusing at some points. It would have been a good article for the website though, maybe if something like that comes up again write it up as an article and then think about how you will make it into a VT.
Charlie – For a first package I thought it was quite good, there were a few things wrong with it though. The main one was that your voiceover lacked any punch (no pun intended!), I know you have a quiet voice anyway but you need to almost become a different person when recording voiceovers! There probably should have been a PTC in there, but that was a joint decision we made when we were at the boxing club.
Also, , don’t say ‘I spoke to’ before your voiceover, it sounds a bit unprofessional. To be honest I should have picked up this on when I read your script.
We need to have more written stories on the website, so each week if you don’t have a package you need to be writing an article. I want 3 or 4 articles on the site a week, including the match report. I’ll talk to all about this more on Monday.
After talking to Brian about football highlights packages, the opening shots of the teams coming out of the tunnel, shaking hands, warming up etc aren’t the best shots to have. Maybe start with the build up to the first clip of a chance or a goal. Even if you show shots of the teams coming out of the tunnel, shaking hands, warming up etc, we could have graphics to show the lineups, I will find out how to do them and will hopefully have these graphics on the VT next week. I will get score graphics done for this week’s VT though.
Also, at the end of highlights packages we perhaps need to stop having the players shaking hands at the end of the match. End the highlights of the football with action and an extension of the final clip.
After each chance or goal, please record lots of the aftermath e.g the player who has missed walking away from goal. I always used to find the player who had scored or missed a chance and zoomed in on him, this means you have to be quick with zooming and focussing, something you get used to if you do it often enough.
It wasn’t a fantastic week for us, but we have nine or ten more to make things better.
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