Feedback on Latest Club Videos

[S.S. Bleeder]

BTW Tanya is working for Michelle Bridges. Not sure what her role is.

[Danzar]

BTW Tanya is working for Michelle Bridges. Not sure what her role is.

Producing fitness videos?

[JPK12]

I love this new approach, its stylish and the production is very high end. Its what a lot of international production houses are doing with sport docos. The close ups are a lot more intimate and give the players more personality than just them sitting there after training and answering Tanyas boring questions or just a standard shot using wide angle of the players doing boring training drills.

Well done on moving in the right direction.

Maybe those who attend training drills can record with their phones the circle work and upload it here or on youtube if thats what a few want here?

[Scottee]

I love this new approach, its stylish and the production is very high end. Its what a lot of international production houses are doing with sport docos. The close ups are a lot more intimate and give the players more personality than just them sitting there after training and answering Tanyas boring questions or just a standard shot using wide angle of the players doing boring training drills.

Well done on moving in the right direction.

Maybe those who attend training drills can record with their phones the circle work and upload it here or on youtube if thats what a few want here?

Why is it up to R & W On-liners to provide the visual material that keeps supporters at the club up to date on how the team as a whole is going???

[RogueSwan]

I love this new approach, its stylish and the production is very high end.

I don't mind the new style but to call it "very high end" is a stretch. The audio, mainly when done indoors, is still echoey (sp?), like it has been done in the toilets or a small room and shallow depth of field just because you have a fast lens can be boring.
I hope they continue to try different things.
I will be paying close attention to the media crew when they are up in here in Coffs in a few weeks.
The club could call these new videos BWO (Black and White Online)

[RogueSwan]

BTW Tanya is working for Michelle Bridges. Not sure what her role is.

Producing fitness videos?

[OT] My wife has done a couple of MB's courses and speaks highly of the process. There is a lot of video material to watch at once you sign up and quite a bit on the mental side of getting fit. I can imagine these would need reqular updating and would keep the "Palouch" (as I heard the boys call her) busy.
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[Ludwig]

It seems like we hired Lars von Trier to do our filming. It's got that Dogme style. Worked well in films like Dancer in the Dark, but don't think it suits sports videos. I'd rather see more kicking and contested marking without the arty stuff.

[JPK12]

Peeps these are player profiles. I doubt they will hire a DOP to shoot the training drills.

[Danzar]

I love this new approach, its stylish and the production is very high end. Its what a lot of international production houses are doing with sport docos. The close ups are a lot more intimate and give the players more personality than just them sitting there after training and answering Tanyas boring questions or just a standard shot using wide angle of the players doing boring training drills.

Well done on moving in the right direction.

Maybe those who attend training drills can record with their phones the circle work and upload it here or on youtube if thats what a few want here?

In the case of a feature sports doco, you have a good point. These videos are on the shorter side though. It just doesn't work in its context.

[DamY]

I like them

[magic.merkin]

They are fine for what they are (Player catchup etc). I think we all just want some pulled back footage of training and the players as an accompaniment. To see physical changes, freedom of movement (injuries), seeing greater range of players and a sense of being there,

[JPK12]

There are a heap of new videos on the swans site and i <3 them. This is exactly the production that fox/espn are doing with their stuff. This is high end stuff. Love the horse one "state of play" very well done and beats having to listen to horse sitting in the stand or on the sideline giving monotone replies. The in video footage and the narrow DOF is all levels of cinematic goodness.

This is the standard that australia lacked with their production in the past.

Keep it up swans media dept.

[Auntie.Gerald]

hhhmmm

i think they are different and there is some improvement on the training type videos

SwansTV - Swans Intra-club match - sydneyswans.com.au

I like the camera angles and the closeups etc

It does have more a TV feel though which I have mixed feelings about as i do like the rough and ready connected type of approach

Music has not been much chop ie on the video above ...........it doesnt make me feel much at all.....in fact it is a flop

I think some of the cutaways could be better edited ie some parts way to long on certain shots and I personally didnt like the filter in editing for the above video

I do miss Tania and her up beat conversational style and this needs to be dealt with asap as most of the interviews are very serious ! ........personally i enjoy a mix of the doco style of video work and the light hearted smiling players and interviewer

[JPK12]

These are shot in a cinematic style. The previous stuff was shot on a DV cam and edited by the third cousin of the boot strapper who was a media studies student, there is no comparison.

[Auntie.Gerald]

Jp it depends what u want - ie not everyone wants to drive a BMW....some people are happy with the second hand bluebird

Personally I like a mix of up beat smiley interviews and also the more dramatic cinema style to quality vids