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Belligerence
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Can't seem to see a thread on this. Studio has had a bit of redecorating?
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Belligerence
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I don't know why they've changed it. The other angle gave a great perspective. Low angles are ok as long as they aren't too low (White Hart Lane being an example of one too low).
Please change it Sky!
Sky sometimes lower the sound if it's just one person shouting obsenities.
I guess they can't do that with hundreds of fans singing
Indeed, and I must admit I watched that thinking "will they be able to show all this when they lose the rights next season?".
I wasn't so keen on the ending though. They just seemed to race through every match and the choice of twitter questions wasn't the best. (I prefer it when they use twitter to take it in a general subject area that they might not usually speak about and Ed then asks follow-up questions as opposed to quickfire specific questions from twitter which often aren't particularly interesting or easy to answer - rather like Jake Humphrey's 'other than Rooney, how many current Man Utd players would get in their best ever team?'!)
No, they won't.
Was a great debate though, makes MNF a must-see show just for them two.
A lower camera angle was used last Monday for Aston Villa v Southampton, so I emailed Sky to ask why they are lowering camera angles at football games and this is there reply:
Dear Jon,
Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding the camera angels.
There are two positions available at Aston Villa for the main camera coverage, the choice of position is taken by the Match Director who factors in whether this is a day game or night game. The lower position is used more often than not on evening games and this position is more consistent to the newer stadiums, the higher position is used during day games as this is not affected by sunlight reflecting into the lenses which can occur in the lower position.
For the game on 7th December- Aston Villa v Leicester 16.00 kick off, the director has chosen to use the higher position as there could be a sunlight issue that needs to be factored in.
I hope I have been able to clarify our position in this matter.
Kind Regards
Sandra
Viewer Relations
In other words, the Sky match director prefers the lower angle except on day games when they are forced to use the higher angles due to the potential of sun glare.
So if like me, you are not a big fan of the lower camera angles, looks like we are just going to have to put up with it as this is the technical direction Sky are taking
A sunlight issue at 4pm Kick Off in December, It will be dark by then.
Not quite, it goes dark at about 4.30pm in December.
Sunset In Birmingham next Sunday is 3.54pm
They did used to let viewers select from a few different camera angles on their interactive coverage on the red button.
Yeah, I remember that, was quite a while ago though wasn't it? I'd love it Keegan style if they bought that back.
Spurs v Everton on today was shown from a very low flat angle which leaves Skys explanation for the (supposedly) higher angle choice for next Sundays Villa game baffling.
Why??
Yeah, there was a choice of:
* main camera
* behind home goal
* behind away goal
* player cam (a different player every ten mins)
* Fan Zone alternative commentary
Wasn't there also a match highlights so far loop, too? (haze memory of this)
Also, the SD picture was great back then.
Hi Jon,
Thank you for taking the time to contact us on this matter.
At the beginning of last season the club had to make several more camera positions available as part of changes to the Premier League broadcast package.
Included in these changes was the provision for 3D cameras on the half way line. Due to the nature of the 3D effect, these positions needed to be lower than the standard ones.
Although they were provisioned for 3D positions, broadcasters can still use ‘normal’ cameras in these positions.
All of the previous positions are still in place and the choice on which positions are used is entirely down to the broadcaster, we simply make all the positions available.
I hope that this answers your question.
Thanks again for your email.
Regards,
Nick Finney
Multimedia Operations Manager
Aston Villa Football Club
So, looks like this camera angle change being pushed through has been enforced by the Premier League broadcast package. So, is it the Premier League that is driving this or Sky? I thought Sky had stopped broadcasting football in 3D?
They had 3 different camera angles but not always behind either goal. The 4th angle (usually the blue button) was the 'Player Cam'.
The other options were 'Highlights', 'Fan Zone' commentary and 'Stats' that showed possession etc alongside the history of the fixture, line-ups etc. It's a shame they don't do it anymore. It was almost ahead of its time a little bit. It was pretty cool for the cricket coverage when the added it to that as well as the football. Would be cool if they offered something similar even if it was as a 'second screen' for iPads etc.
Clubs had to install new floodlighting systems to a newer standard (some already had it - Emirates for example) to make the pitch more 'daylight-esque' for broadcasters.