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Post by stevehorn on Sept 23, 2024 20:32:33 GMT -5
I decided to re-watch the Hawaii game on demand on ESPN+ to see what the complaints about the camera were and oh my goodness, that was painful to watch. For those who didn't watch in person or the replay, essentially the producer decided to only focus on about 50% of the court. Serve went long? You didn't see it. Apparently the producer has dictated that the camera should follow the ball and so there's a lot of "jerking" around.
Who do I write to complain about this? And they can't pull that lame excuse about "it's the size of Gregory that forces us to focus that closely". C'mon. LHN had no problem broadcasting it like the other ESPN+ channels. It's gotta be the producer/director. I guess they didn't keep the old LHN crew around when it folded.
they HAD to been talked to during the match because i think they actually zoomed out for the last half of the second and the third, buttttt yeah that was a TERRIBLE watch. definitely turns fans away bc i finally got my mom to watch with me and i was like WTF... Does anyone know if they had an actual cameraman at the game or was the camera being remotely controlled from the studio? It actually concerns me more if it was an actual cameraman because that means he was woefully incompetent. |
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Post by hornfanaustin on Sept 23, 2024 20:33:31 GMT -5
they HAD to been talked to during the match because i think they actually zoomed out for the last half of the second and the third, buttttt yeah that was a TERRIBLE watch. definitely turns fans away bc i finally got my mom to watch with me and i was like WTF... Does anyone know if they had an actual cameraman at the game or was the camera being remotely controlled from the studio? It actually concerns me more if it was an actual cameraman because that means he was woefully incompetent. Human beings were manning all the cameras in the same spots before where LHN had them stationed. |
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Post by mln59 on Sept 23, 2024 20:33:37 GMT -5
better dial it up to 8 or 8.5 He'll be at 11 by Friday. |
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Post by stevehorn on Sept 23, 2024 20:33:55 GMT -5
they HAD to been talked to during the match because i think they actually zoomed out for the last half of the second and the third, buttttt yeah that was a TERRIBLE watch. definitely turns fans away bc i finally got my mom to watch with me and i was like WTF... sent some emails and got it sorted out. Is this sarcasm or can I really expect that someone might be working on improvement? |
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Post by storyteller on Sept 23, 2024 20:35:00 GMT -5
Y'all reminded me I drafted an email about the game. I found the email address eyeroll posted in the match thread and sent that baby off!
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Post by stevehorn on Sept 23, 2024 20:38:04 GMT -5
Does anyone know if they had an actual cameraman at the game or was the camera being remotely controlled from the studio? It actually concerns me more if it was an actual cameraman because that means he was woefully incompetent. Human beings were manning all the cameras in the same spots before where LHN had them stationed. That's worrisome. It most likely means they aren't using the crew that did the LHN matches. I was only able to watch about half of the first set before I went to a high school football game. When you watched the telecast, did the announcing improve any? The single male announcer was pretty bad the little bit that I watched. |
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Post by katn on Sept 23, 2024 20:56:35 GMT -5
Human beings were manning all the cameras in the same spots before where LHN had them stationed. That's worrisome. It most likely means they aren't using the crew that did the LHN matches. I was only able to watch about half of the first set before I went to a high school football game. When you watched the telecast, did the announcing improve any? The single male announcer was pretty bad the little bit that I watched. it was all bad...even after the 2nd set it was only a little better...we missed setting/serves/kills throughout the match...the whole production was a mess...the tv analyst got info incorrect throughout the match here you go www.instagram.com/reel/DARrEB3xlIA/?igsh=MTl0bmoxZDRlOXU3aw==you couldn't see the set or the kill |
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Post by storyteller on Sept 23, 2024 21:14:07 GMT -5
That's worrisome. It most likely means they aren't using the crew that did the LHN matches. I was only able to watch about half of the first set before I went to a high school football game. When you watched the telecast, did the announcing improve any? The single male announcer was pretty bad the little bit that I watched. it was all bad...even after the 2nd set it was only a little better...we missed setting/serves/kills throughout the match...the whole production was a mess...the tv analyst got info incorrect throughout the match here you go www.instagram.com/reel/DARrEB3xlIA/?igsh=MTl0bmoxZDRlOXU3aw==you couldn't see the set or the kill The way everyone was a freshman to him 💀 |
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Post by stevehorn on Sept 23, 2024 21:24:39 GMT -5
it was all bad...even after the 2nd set it was only a little better...we missed setting/serves/kills throughout the match...the whole production was a mess...the tv analyst got info incorrect throughout the match here you go www.instagram.com/reel/DARrEB3xlIA/?igsh=MTl0bmoxZDRlOXU3aw==you couldn't see the set or the kill The way everyone was a freshman to him 💀 I wonder if part of the problem was that he was calling the match by himself where he probably had to talk and try to check notes at the same time rather than having a few seconds to check notes while the analyst talked. |
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Post by stevehorn on Sept 23, 2024 21:30:18 GMT -5
That's worrisome. It most likely means they aren't using the crew that did the LHN matches. I was only able to watch about half of the first set before I went to a high school football game. When you watched the telecast, did the announcing improve any? The single male announcer was pretty bad the little bit that I watched. it was all bad...even after the 2nd set it was only a little better...we missed setting/serves/kills throughout the match...the whole production was a mess...the tv analyst got info incorrect throughout the match here you go www.instagram.com/reel/DARrEB3xlIA/?igsh=MTl0bmoxZDRlOXU3aw==you couldn't see the set or the kill The football game Saturday was also on SECN+. Last year's LHN announcers (Lowell Galindo & Fozzy Whitaker) called the game so I suspect they used a lot of the LHN crew from last year. I wonder if that made a number of crew type people unavailable? The Miami match was also on SECN+. I still had DirectTV at that time so I wasn't able to watch it due to their little spat with ESPN. Was that production just as bad as Friday? |
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Post by storyteller on Sept 23, 2024 22:17:18 GMT -5
The way everyone was a freshman to him 💀 I wonder if part of the problem was that he was calling the match by himself where he probably had to talk and try to check notes at the same time rather than having a few seconds to check notes while the analyst talked. That's probably part of it. There definitely should've been an analyst with him. Considering there's a whole pro team in Austin now, there's no shortage of volleyball expertise in the city... |
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Post by hornshouse23 on Sept 23, 2024 22:42:14 GMT -5
it was all bad...even after the 2nd set it was only a little better...we missed setting/serves/kills throughout the match...the whole production was a mess...the tv analyst got info incorrect throughout the match here you go www.instagram.com/reel/DARrEB3xlIA/?igsh=MTl0bmoxZDRlOXU3aw==you couldn't see the set or the kill The way everyone was a freshman to him 💀 Last season’s emotional leader, freshman Asjia O’Neal. |
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Post by hornshouse23 on Sept 23, 2024 22:43:01 GMT -5
I wonder if part of the problem was that he was calling the match by himself where he probably had to talk and try to check notes at the same time rather than having a few seconds to check notes while the analyst talked. That's probably part of it. There definitely should've been an analyst with him. Considering there's a whole pro team in Austin now, there's no shortage of volleyball expertise in the city... give us back selima. Forget Norte dame |
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Post by katn on Sept 23, 2024 23:53:26 GMT -5
it was all bad...even after the 2nd set it was only a little better...we missed setting/serves/kills throughout the match...the whole production was a mess...the tv analyst got info incorrect throughout the match here you go www.instagram.com/reel/DARrEB3xlIA/?igsh=MTl0bmoxZDRlOXU3aw==you couldn't see the set or the kill The football game Saturday was also on SECN+. Last year's LHN announcers (Lowell Galindo & Fozzy Whitaker) called the game so I suspect they used a lot of the LHN crew from last year. I wonder if that made a number of crew type people unavailable? The Miami match was also on SECN+. I still had DirectTV at that time so I wasn't able to watch it due to their little spat with ESPN. Was that production just as bad as Friday? the miami matched seemed normal to me...this production was so bad...i've never seen anything like it before (s**tty camerawork, it was like someone new was handling the cameras & they did not understand the game of volleyball) |
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Post by storyteller on Sept 24, 2024 0:29:43 GMT -5
That's probably part of it. There definitely should've been an analyst with him. Considering there's a whole pro team in Austin now, there's no shortage of volleyball expertise in the city... give us back selima. Forget Norte dame Give Salima an iPad and some airpods and she can announce our games from South Bend for all I care. |
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