I watched the Open final teaser and was generally impressed by the videography, the replays, and the commentary. Unfortunately, the videographers demonstrated a queer habit of zooming in on the thrower when the disc approached the endzone-line -- almost as if they were expecting a running play. It meant that the viewers missed a lot of the endzone play, or even the scoring pass.
It will probably take some time yet before videographers learn the best way to cover an ultimate game.
I would assume, correct me if I'm wrong Steve, that the guys running the various cameras were the same crew that would normally be covering a Blue Bombers game and had likely never seen Ultimate before. Considering that, it was well done, but I agree that at times there were close-ups that took away from the viewing of the game.
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Quick question : will the mixed and women finals be online too?
BTW, great description of the open game guys....
Hope you'll be commentating CUC 2010 finals in Sherbrooke!
Ti-Loup,
I have every reason to believe all three finals will be up, full games, via iamulitmate.com. Hopefully very soon.
I would be more than happy to do commentary in Sherbrooke. I have a feeling the host city is going to do an amazing job next year.
I watched the Open final teaser and was generally impressed by the videography, the replays, and the commentary. Unfortunately, the videographers demonstrated a queer habit of zooming in on the thrower when the disc approached the endzone-line -- almost as if they were expecting a running play. It meant that the viewers missed a lot of the endzone play, or even the scoring pass.
It will probably take some time yet before videographers learn the best way to cover an ultimate game.
I would assume, correct me if I'm wrong Steve, that the guys running the various cameras were the same crew that would normally be covering a Blue Bombers game and had likely never seen Ultimate before. Considering that, it was well done, but I agree that at times there were close-ups that took away from the viewing of the game.
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