Three Questions in Forty Seconds Rarely Produce Anything
The sideline interview format gives an interviewer forty seconds, three questions and an athlete still running on adrenaline. Here is why that rarely works.
Tag: broadcast production
High Wide, Eighteen-Yard, Reverse: What Each Camera Actually Shows
The standard sports broadcast camera positions and what only each one can show. Why parallax, long lenses and frame rate make replays disagree.
How Editors Finish a Four-Minute Package Before the Final Whistle
How sports highlights are edited while play continues: timecode logging, pre-marked angles, the audio bed and the ninety seconds after the whistle.