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Sam's Drunk Dog wrote:Hopefully this means an end to the garbage camera angels and pointless cutaways from play.
beLIEve wrote:Hopefully this means they will finally zoom out during live play. The constant oscillating between tight and super-tight shot since they've moved to CEC has literally been making me ill.
I've seen some games from the Senators feed and they use a nice wide shot where you can see the entire offensive zone. I hope he's bringing this angle along with him.
DelPen wrote:Here's what I don't get, John Szpala was with CBC for 16 years. He did the Sens games for Rogers. He also did the 2006 and 2010 Olympics.
Why did he come to Pittsburgh? The quality fo production for ROOT was so bad that even any change would have made it better including minkeys flipping random switches since I'm sure they would have caught more face offs coming back from break than what we saw last year. This guy's resume is great. Did the Pensguins see really how bad things were and wanted to get the best in the business?
Here's a cool article from a Habs-Bruins game about what a director does and the one in question is John Szpala:
http://www.faceoff.com/hockey/nhlnews/s ... cd9524c0f6
That was the pinnacle of hockey on TV in my opinion. I caught one of the Sharks home games on there. Those cameras are already nice and high to begin with. Add in everything else you mentioned, and I agree, best broadcasts ever.shmenguin wrote:HDNet did hockey games a few years ago. from a technical standpoint, best broadcasts i've ever seen. great, wide camera angle and minimalist announcing. they even long had stretches where they would just cut the announcers and pipe in nothing but crowd noise and on-ice sounds. amazing.
BurghersAndDogsSports wrote:DelPen wrote:Here's what I don't get, John Szpala was with CBC for 16 years. He did the Sens games for Rogers. He also did the 2006 and 2010 Olympics.
Why did he come to Pittsburgh? The quality fo production for ROOT was so bad that even any change would have made it better including minkeys flipping random switches since I'm sure they would have caught more face offs coming back from break than what we saw last year. This guy's resume is great. Did the Pensguins see really how bad things were and wanted to get the best in the business?
Here's a cool article from a Habs-Bruins game about what a director does and the one in question is John Szpala:
http://www.faceoff.com/hockey/nhlnews/s ... cd9524c0f6
Well this is all on Root. They pay the pens for the rights. But if thy gave this guy an offer he couldn't refuse it's their money.
My best guess is since they are partners in a sense the pens may have asked for upgrades but root got pressure from viewers and advertisers to put a better product out there.
But rest assured his is root. I'm sure thy listen to the lens suggestions but are really in control and are the one who pay the money. They do give he pens how many millions per year.
beLIEve wrote:That was the pinnacle of hockey on TV in my opinion. I caught one of the Sharks home games on there. Those cameras are already nice and high to begin with. Add in everything else you mentioned, and I agree, best broadcasts ever.shmenguin wrote:HDNet did hockey games a few years ago. from a technical standpoint, best broadcasts i've ever seen. great, wide camera angle and minimalist announcing. they even long had stretches where they would just cut the announcers and pipe in nothing but crowd noise and on-ice sounds. amazing.
shmenguin wrote:beLIEve wrote:Hopefully this means they will finally zoom out during live play. The constant oscillating between tight and super-tight shot since they've moved to CEC has literally been making me ill.
I've seen some games from the Senators feed and they use a nice wide shot where you can see the entire offensive zone. I hope he's bringing this angle along with him.
HDNet did hockey games a few years ago. from a technical standpoint, best broadcasts i've ever seen. great, wide camera angle and minimalist announcing. they even long had stretches where they would just cut the announcers and pipe in nothing but crowd noise and on-ice sounds. amazing.
shmenguin wrote:beLIEve wrote:That was the pinnacle of hockey on TV in my opinion. I caught one of the Sharks home games on there. Those cameras are already nice and high to begin with. Add in everything else you mentioned, and I agree, best broadcasts ever.shmenguin wrote:HDNet did hockey games a few years ago. from a technical standpoint, best broadcasts i've ever seen. great, wide camera angle and minimalist announcing. they even long had stretches where they would just cut the announcers and pipe in nothing but crowd noise and on-ice sounds. amazing.
it really felt like you were there, watching it live. i've never seen a sports broadcast pull that off.
jimjom wrote:Yeah moar crowd shots of the same guy all the time smiling smugly with arms outstretched after every single goal is scored.
Bathgate wrote:Is there anyone besides me that would like to see the main center-ice cameras at CEC shooting from a higher angle? It would require removing a few seats from the front row of the center section of the upper bowl and placing the cameras there. To me a higher angle is better because you are looking more down on the players rather than through the players, so the ice looks bigger. San Jose uses a high angle. Check out some TV action from San Jose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzz29TdMhIQ. It's pretty much like the old camera angle at Mellon Arena.
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