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3. Here is how to do it right!
What a fantastic age of technology we live in. You can buy the greatest gadgets now days to description video and music and play them in all sorts of ways on other great technology gadgets from computers, Dvd's, Mp3 players, Vcr's, and many more. It is all great stuff. But they all come with thick owners manuals that do not all the time get you going the right direction. You may eventually learn to use your great new camera for instance, but that does not mean you will necessarily take pictures that are worth finding at down the road. Rolling tape in your camera is one thing and creating video that is high ability and entertaining is another thing. The goal of this stock is to bring you up to speed with using your video camera (whatever format, and whatever brand) to get the best results for recording those costly moments of your kid's athletic achievements.
We as parents spend fullness of hours out on the field, court, pool, or track watching our kids take part in and compete in youth sports. If you have a video camera you are going to want to description some of these events for posterity and perhaps education. Following the straightforward steps in this guide will help you to capture them in the best potential fashion so that it is watch able but also usable down the road.
My video expertise stems from two decades as a network television cameraman and as a parent with any kids actively involved in youth sports. In my years of shooting video professionally I have been colse to the world and seen just about every type of news event. I also spent 15 years exterior pro sports events for my employer. These were the best type of assignments as far as I was concerned. In my whole career the things I have enjoyed most is being able to go to places where the mean someone cannot. In sports that normally means being on the field, next to the court, in the press box, or in the pit. I have shot football games of all levels up to and along with Nfc and Afc championship games. Living in the Bay Area has allowed me to cover many baseball pennant races and any World Series. I was right behind home plate the night the earth shook in the 1989 World Series. Talk about a shock. I had to give up exterior a World Series in the middle of the two Bay Area teams to go and cover a huge news event. Baseball seemed small for a while after the magnitude of the earthquake. The point in this is that I love sports, have been colse to sports my whole life and I know how to shoot video of sports. With that in mind I will do my best to give you advice on how to do the same.
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Now either you have the newest Dv camera in your hands or an old Vhs format camera there are basic things you will need to keep in mind if you are going to shoot sports. As we say in the video company your camera is only as good as the glass that you hang in front of it. The good the lens the good the results will be no matter what kind of recording format you use. Now you already have a camera in hand and may never have heard this single bit of advice so it is too late to factor it into the equation. However if you have camera in hand and it has any limitations on what it can do due to the lens being less than fantastic there are things you can do to mitigate the situation. We will discuss those things in more information later on.
The key factors before setting out on your game day video assignment are to make sure you know the operating functions of the gear, have a tape furnish in hand (soon to be Dvds with the revolution in gear form that is taking place right now), and batteries fully charged. I know these may seem like the simply sure things but even the pros have to constantly remind themselves to check and duplicate check these items.
A exiguous aside here about preparation. Over the many years of exterior news I learned lots of exiguous tips from other photographers in the field and applied them to my work regimen. In the early days of video we all the time had to carry colse to a portable hair dryer because the description decks would seize up if the moisture levels got to high. So in the winter time if you came in from the cold exterior into a nice warm building the air would condense inside the machine and cause moisture build up. The warning light would come on and bang we were dead in the water. One of us would have to run to the car and get the hair dryer, fire it up and chase the water away from the description heads of the deck. It caused some very funny moments in collective places I can assure you. (This by the way can still be a problem even today with electronics/Vcrs/lenses. Too much moisture can cause havoc. So just remember a portable hair dryer can save your day)
Another thing I learned from others is the value of backup. A few years ago I was out on assignment and we had a young eager college intern along with us in the field. This young man wanted to learn all about what we did in our job. He was very concerned in how to take pictures, unlike most of our interns who only wanted to come to be reporters or anchors. He asked many questions and after finding that he was easily paying concentration I decided to take him under my wing and easily fill him up with information. One tidbit that I shared with him was to all the time have an accident stash of tape in his car when out on assignment. He didn't quite understand the importance of this at first since I had already drilled him about all the time bringing tape stock with him when going out on assignment. I filled him with stories of times when something or other happened and I'll be darned if you didn't need another tape and there under the seat of the car was that accident spare. So anyway he went off to graduate from college and get a job in a small store Tv station. He would send us strengthen reports from time to time, which I easily enjoyed. Then lo and notice one day he sends me a letter telling me how he got into a jam one day on a story and needed that accident tape. He had dutifully tucked one under the back seat and it was there to save the day. I hope that what you learn in this book will in some way keep you from having a video failure down the road. What I learned in my career is that video output is 80% of it is dealing with the curves and problems that are thrown at you and 20% talent. If you can learn to problem shoot then you will all the time be successful.
My first recommendation for shooting your kids sports activities is to go watch Tv. Yes sit down put your feet up and watch some sports on Tv. easily watch how they make it entertaining at the top level. Then watch the news and see how they cover the games from a news perspective. Don't pay concentration to the content; just watch how it develops visually. Now of procedure you can never duplicate what the networks are doing with just your one camera. However if you can glean whatever from watching it should be how they try to bring intimacy with the athletes out in the broadcast. All the new improvements in exterior sports have to do with getting you the viewer as close to the athlete as they can. Bring you into their world. From cameras on wires overhead that swoop along the field to cameras in the net of a hockey game to cameras inside the cars at Daytona, it brings you into the game. Now you cannot stand on the pitchers mound at your kids' baseball game but you can learn some techniques that can make your baseball video more intimate and therefore more compelling to watch.
A side note here, if your task is to capture the whole game or sporting performance for recap as a coaching tool you should focus generally on getting a good high view and putting the camera on a tripod. Pan moderately to effect performance and don't zoom in and out. My main goal here is not to teach you this skill since it is pretty darn basic. However if this is what you are doing you should do it right. Find the right framing to keep as much of the performance in the frame and effect it carefully. Some sports move fast from one end to the other and you will have to be smooth. Resist the temptation to effect the ball on full zoom. You will lose. Those guys that shoot sports on Tv are full on pros using much good gear than you will ever have at your disposal.
Now in order to get a good video of your child's game you need to find that emotion and excitement that exists in any game. Think of it as capturing a few of the things that occur and production those golden. Does the team do a pre game cheer? Get up close, stick your camera wither way up high over their heads finding down or get underneath finding up and shoot it in a way that takes the viewer where they can't go. Capture an at bat in baseball by taking a full pitch cycle in close-up of the pitcher, and then one of the catcher and then as close as you can of the hitter. Show their face if you can. If they get the big hit don't go crazy rushing to zoom out. effect the runner down the line. It will be approximately impossible to effect the ball so stay with the runner. Look for the angles that will give you these emotional shots.
Some sports are more of a challenge due to the size of the field and the estimate of movement up and down the field. Take soccer of instance, if you effect the ball the camera is entertaining all over the place and the viewer gets queasy. To capture some good video of your kid playing you need to focus on exact shots and not try to effect the play. Look for moments such as throw ins, free kicks, kick offs when things are predictable and you can get closer to the action. Walk down the sideline and wait for the performance to come to you. If you child is playing right forward then get ahead of the play and when you see the ball entertaining towards you then you can find you child and roll tape in expectation of them playing the ball. Be sure to get some shots of the crowd cheering, the coach watching (not yelling I hope) the goalie waiting in anticipation.
Hold your shots steady for 6-10 seconds at a time. If you are taking a shot of someone watching the game easily count it out in your head (thousand one thousand two...) This will ensure that you get good solid shots and that you don't run on and on with the shot. Brace your arm against your chest for stability and use your other arm over your belly underneath to create a stabilizing platform. This is in lieu of a tripod of course. If you have a tripod it can all the time be a good thing to use if it does not get in the way.
Use creative angles as much as possible. Get down low and wait for the performance to run by you. Don't pan with it but rather let the performance race through the frame. At a swim meet get the camera down on the deck for more of a swimmers perspective of the action. Of procedure you may not want to stay there when the swimmers approach for a turn. Digital electronics do not like water inside them. I was getting the most awesome low angle shots of some open water ocean swimmers one time and the boat lurched on me and salt water sprayed over the camera. I had a cover on the camera but salt water seeped into the crannies and it caused us much grief getting it cleaned out so as to avoid damaging the electronics of the camera.
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