Monday, 4 November 2013

Industry Experience - Claremont Media Group: MillersTV











Mock Up Millers TV - Schedule for Tuesday 16th July Pre-Season Friendly
(This is the type of show that we are aiming to achieve by the end of the season)


Pre-Match = 25:00

1              Millers TV Intro = 00:15
2              Sponsors advert = 00:30
3              Rotherham Utd club shop advert = 00:30
4              Doc: Last 5 games of last season = 04:00
5              Season ticket advert = 00:30
6              Highlight and features from Scotland tour = 04:00
7              Highlights of Parkgate game from Saturday 5th July = 01:00
8              How to sponsor the club = 01:00
9              Millers TV logo with date = 00:15
10           General news items = 04:00
11           Player interviews = 04:00
12           Today’s opponents inc stats = 03:00
13           Team sheets = 02:00
14           Logo with date and opponent = 01:05

Half Time = 15:00

1              Millers TV Intro = 00:15
2              Season ticket advert = 00:30
3              General news items = 04:00
4              Birthday messages = 05:00
5              Doc: Last 5 games of last season = 04:00
6              Rotherham Utd club shop advert = 00:30
7              Millers TV logo with date = 00:45




Production Notes for Filming of Segments

Pre-Match

Millers TV Intro - simple animation with Millers TV logo and flash, plus flash sound effect.  15”.  Need to create logo and dynamic, but unobtrusive animated background that can remain moving behind logo.  Can be used as a filler when needed.    

Sponsors advert - corporate ad for one of the sponsors, eg, Eric Twigg Pukka Pies.  Get product photography / video plus details and create 30” ad for company relating them to Rotherham Utd.

Rotherham Utd club shop advert - 30” advert advertising club shop and wares.  Show exterior of shop at stadium to show viewers where it is located and close ups of items on sale.  End title slide has location, opening times, online shop.

Doc: Last 5 games of last season - 4’ film: edited highlights from last five games of last season edited as a montage set to music with on screen text graphics describing action.  Rousing music for celebrations, make it positive, can be played in front of ‘Season ticket ad’ or ‘How to sponsor the club’ advert for first few games.

Season ticket advert - 30” simple graphic and text advert advertising 2013/14 season tickets, available at NYS.  Use celebrations video clip from end of last season.  Tagline:  Don’t miss a thing!     

Highlight and features from Scotland tour - 4’ doc film: edited match footage and behind scenes, interviews etc with commentary from Matt and Ben.  Player cam?

Ask to shoot some of travel between locations, players on coach joking (but not rowdy or offensive), interviews with players (see separate sheet), training footage, match footage, manager etc.  Need separate player interviews regarding first pre-season friendly on Saturday.      

Highlights of Parkgate game from Saturday 5th July - Punchy, but short 60” match highlights with title slide opener and score sheet at end.  Footage from Bill / Jan.

How to sponsor the club 60” advert - shows current company logos and celebrations from last season.  Rousing music.  Logos shooting forward.  RUFC logo stays on screen throughout. Eg,  Eric Twigg & RUFC, You & RUFC.  Tagline: Join a winning team
    
Millers TV logo with date - 15” Similar short animation as Intro but includes date and opponent. Following features more relevant to today’s game. 

General news items – 4’ film including Chairman welcome message and short interview 2’, virtual tour of the stadium 2’, latest signings announcement from manager 2’.  Use Astons with interviews.

Player interviews 4‘ - filmed during Scotland tour.  Thoughts about today’s game against Bolton Wanderers.

Today’s opponents including stats - 3’ film includes text graphic stats referring to today’s game, and profile of opponent, against a background of the two club badges.

Team sheets - text list of today’s team sheets against animated background of club badges.  2’ duration of team sheets film but can loop it twice, then go to Millers TV logo with date and opponent until kick off. 



Half Time

Millers TV Intro - as pre-match = 15”

Season ticket advert - as pre-match = 30”

General news items - as pre-match = 4’

Birthday messages - mock up messages with photos.  5’ film.  Style as a message board and have other notices on too.  Highlight each in turn.  End title card shows how to get your child’s birthday message shown = 5’
  
Doc: Last 5 games of last season - as pre-match = 4’

Rotherham Utd club shop advert - as pre-match = 30”

Millers TV logo with date - as pre-match, but with half time score if possible = 45”










Notes from 27 July 2013:
In my role as Producer / Director I am responsible for the output that is fed to all the screens in the stadium leading up to, and during the match.

Prior to the match starting the output is pre-recorded material which includes edited highlights of previous, recent games.  As time goes on, and the project grows, this will include VTs that I have produced such as training ground interviews and player photos to synch with the team sheet announcements made live on the pitch.

My job at the moment is to set up the system at the start of the session, this includes monitors, camera feeds, DVD recorders, mixing desk etc, and to gain confidence in vision mixing and letting it become second nature and instinctive.





Vision mixing is using the desk to line up the next feed (a different camera, a replay or a pre-record) and deciding how to go to the next using straight forward jumps, fades, swipes etc.
 
I really enjoy vision mixing.  I have to concentrate really hard on the action and pick out (and sometimes anticipate) pertinent points that warrant either a change of camera angle or a replay for the audience.




Notes from matchday broadcast on Saturday 10 August

Opening Up: What Needs to be Done Prior to, and During Match

On matchday, camera 1 is the main camera feed for the stadium screens, and it is this footage that goes to the BBC for inclusion in the Football League Show.

We have to produce five copies of the full game to be given to the clubs and the FA straight after the match.
To do this we have two white DVD recorders fed the main camera by distribution amp.

DVD Recorders - ! Important !

Before kick off, put the pre-labelled discs into the two DVD recorders.  This will make the ‘master’ copies of the game.
The recorder will ask if you wish to format the DVDs, say ‘OK’.  Press record - time code will begin running on screen and red light will appear on big round button on front of recorders.
It is vital that these two white copiers are set recording just before kick off, are paused for half time, then restarted, as these are the master copies of the game.
Stop at end of game and ‘finalise’.  To finalise: press eject - will ask if you want to finalise – press – YES – then OK

After the match one of the masters is used in the bulk copier to produce the DVDs for the club, opponents, FA etc.


Opening Up: 

Turn on the sockets on the vision mixer desk


The main camera feed will appear on the Match monitor once the camera is set up and operational.

Turn on DVD player (of the stack of two DVD players under the vision mixer desk).  This is the 'Compacks' brand DVD player.


This is the DVD mixer that will play out two DVD players Ads and pre-recorded, edited highlights DVD of previous games.  Put in latest edited DVD.  Press play.  This will appear on the small monitor labelled ‘DVD’.

Turn on the bottom DVD recorder (Liteon brand).  This is for the 'Replay' feed.  This needs to be set up on a delay using the remote control.


To Set Delay:   On handset press RECORD

 After 10 seconds (shown in display on screen) press TIME SHIFT and PLAY, lift off TIME SHIFT and then lift off PLAY.  Take the display off screen by using DISPLAY.



If OTR shows on screen this means that it is on timed recording so press STOP then STOP again and restart recording process as above.

 
Operating Stadium Screen Feeds

This is done by using Tripl Play = https://10.16.5.2



Log in = bblackburn
Password = VIPRAW56
Click ‘Tripl Sign’ button
Click ‘layouts’

Click ‘sort by’ drop down box
Click ‘date last modified’


Millers TV highlights should be the option labelled as “matchday layout”.  
But check serial number is same as one Bill has been emailed. 


Check that light on Tripl play box is green NOT red.  If red then not going through to stadium screens.
On that line click on pencil on screen icon


A holding picture will appear on screen with current setting as a header at top of picture


Click on holding picture
Click ‘edit content’ on drop down box


Go to LiveTV Sky Channel 1’ to change screen to Sky Sports just before half time, in order for screens to show half time results.  After ten minutes change back to Millers TV so that highlights DVD and then second half of match is fed through.



MillersTV – Logging and BBC Play Outs

During each Rotherham match, as I am vision mixing, I keep a log of the incidents that occur during the game that may be used for the edited highlights DVD to be shown at the next match and also for the BBC for the Football League Show.

The incidents should be recorded and graded as to how interesting they are.  This grading system helps Bill and the BBC go straight to the incidents during editing (Bill) and BBC play outs (Bill and BBC Sheffield).

Bill and BBC Sheffield look through the log and go straight to the highest graded incidents, or incidents such as yellow / red cards.

When a player is booked with a yellow card it is important to log that too in case he goes on to be red carded and sent off.  If this happens the Football League Show may want footage of both yellows so BBC Sheffield need to have the timecode for the first yellow card too.  It doesn't need grading, so a note saying YELLOW would suffice.

Similarly with injuries, if a player is injured it may be important so should be logged.  This can be graded
with the term INJURY instead of a mark out of ten.

eg,

Time (taken from timecode) / Team Involved / Description of incident / Grading (mark out of 10)


00:08:12 / Roth / Shot at goal, hit crossbar / 6
00:15:01 / PNE / Player yellow carded / YELLOW
00:35:55 / Roth / Shot at goal - wide / 2
00:55:26 / Roth / Player injured, carried off / INJURY


Once the match is finished and all copies of match DVDs have been given to the clubs and FA, Bill drives to BBC Sheffield with the master tapes of the match and sits with the BBC technicians who PLAY OUT the main incidents of the match to London (in this case to IMG, the production which makes The Football League Show for the BBC).

   

 Using my log the technician and Bill will spool through the tapes to the major incidents, and these are 'Log and Captured' into Final Cut 7.  Here the footage is cropped and assembled with footage from other games ready to send out.








 








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