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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Video Production is a very important aspect of helping the sport grow. Anything we can do to improve the quality of the end result is worthwhile, since the large majority of people will only ever see the bots on the screen. No matter what you do, you will never reach as many people live as you will through the screen.
Unfortunately, its also a very time-intensive and expensive thing to do well if you dont want the end result to look like aunty-flo's home-movies of her holiday at surfers. You are trying to recreate the experience of being there live for the viewers, and still cover up the boring bits between fights while the arena is swept and so on.
Just some of the things to think about to get a good result: (take a deep breath, no breaks here  ) Tripods are essential, good experienced camera operators who can zoom and pan with skill to avoid the jolty feeling, multiple camera angles (which immediately increase your editing time by the number of cameras squared), about 5-10 tapes per camera, brilliant lighting, white-calibrating all the cameras so you dont get strange color changes when changing views, 3-Chip camera's will give much more vivid color, multiple audio tracks so you can get the crowd roaring on one channel, yet still have the un-interfered with crunch when someones hammer hits, compressors and quality microphones to pickup the arena sounds clearly, a skilled interviewer, a check sheet to make sure each and every bot and team are filmed prior to any battles, and after battle damage is covered. a list of questions for the interviewer to ask the teams, grabbing the drivers before during and after the fight to get their emotional intensity on film (non builders react better to people feeling things than machines), and then weeks and weeks of free time to capture, edit, audio-mix, video process, master, create menu's, graphic overlay effects, logos, credits, render, and burn all of the footage you got. and by the time you have finsihed, you will *never* want to watch it again because you will know every second in excrutiating detail.
oh, and it would be nice if you didnt have to pay for all of that.. 
Sound like fun ? Unfortunately, if you want to reach the masses with a quality product, thats what has to be covered.
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Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:50 pm |
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Giant Robo
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 583
Location: Marayong NSW
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Ah, the memories!
I used to be quite a film maker back in the 80`s as Writer, director, camera man, editor, foley artist, actor, special effects,,,, all the rest; some classic horrors such as "A stiring in the night" and "The Sanguivite" (What, you never heard of them!?) but they are pretty embarrassing to watch nowdays! and true, by the time your`e finished you never want to see them again!
I don`t expect we`ll win many Oscars just yet, unless they have one for enthusiasm. Good on Mitch, I had him in mind for doing interviews, he`s a natural for it! We`ll make some notes for him with suggested questions to ask and a rough script to make sure we get the footage we need.
No need to even try to make it too technical or profesional looking just yet Mr Spielberg! (Bret  ) it will take practice and we have a full day of battles to contend with but I`m sure we`ll end up with another fun vid to watch.
"The Pits" video from KKEERROOs is one of my faves and there isn`t even any action in it!
Have we settled on a local comp name yet like Metal Mayhem? Is it Sydney Terror Bots,, er,, or something else?
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