NCAA Awards

Tonight I shot the "2007 NCAA Awards Celebration." I was on one of the center cameras in the back of the room, usually on the podium shot. There was a third fixed camera over to stage right, and another on Steadicam and yet another on a Jimmy Jib. The show tonight was for I-mag to two side screens, another hanging above the crowd about halfway back in the huge ballroom, and they also had a cool new very expensive box that let them put the I-mag image as an element in a huge wide format graphics screen behind center stage. Little in the way of wide shots or audience shots went into the line cut to the screens. But all cams were isoed (ie: each camera had a separate recorder capturing all of it's output vs. the line cut recorder that captures only parts of the various cameras' shots as they are selected by the switcher). When "off air" as far as the I-mag was concerned, we were directed to get all kinds of additional shots that will be cut into the line cut to make the TV show for broadcast. The need for two different programs is the context in which it is viewed. In the I-mag context you don't need any wide shots because everybody can see the wide image all the time live with their own eyeballs. It doesn't make any sense to put up a shot where the subject is smaller than what someone can see live.

So that's probably more about I-mag (oh, sorry, that's short for "image magnification") than you ever wanted to know. The show will air on ESPN2 on February 2nd. The schedule shows 2:00PM but I don't know what time zone that is for.