Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Even More Remarkable to be in the Running

Fairfield wins the Sony Award, and their production was outstanding.  What I'm pretty sure the folks didn't know here is what was behind our two entries.

Congrats to Fairfield, but as their producer indicated in his acceptance, he had a donated production truck and a staff of 25 people to create their event.

Arkansas' gymnastics game - one full-timer in Blair Cartwright, who did all the preproduction video and switched the event.  Two camera operators and two unmanned cameras.  A volunteer stat person, who was also the play by play announcer.  A student athlete volunteer. A network computer assistant.

Repurposed cameras, a TriCaster - that's all video.  The graphics? PowerPoint.

One guy, three contract people, two volunteers vs the entire TV truck.

I'm really proud of the guerrilla production crew - who managed to place two of the five finalists.

Imagine what they can do with more assets.

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