Television Program

[David Roth weiss]

Michael,

You already have it down… Most likely you’ll be working primarily with highlights, which are the best of the best, and they’ll provide you with multiple angles of everything, cuz they always have a few zillion cameras. The biggest part of the job in sports to simply pick the angle that blows everyone away, and build up the moment further by showing a reaction shot of either the player, a teammate, or the fans.

At Fox Sports, where I used to work, the announcers always wrote their own copy, cuz each has a distictive style, and they know they’re own style best. We’d just cut the best pix and put lots of crowd noise underneath, then show it to the announcers. As they watched it the first time they’d just ad-lib their lines and the producers would type it all out, and then they’d bring them them to the VO booth to record it. When the VO came back, I’d lay it down and we were done. Its about as easy as it gets…