The editorial Mag looked this week at slow motion, an essential tool today in the broadcasting of sport. It offers the possibility of increasing the emotions of a sporting event, of reviewing and magnifying the sporting gesture from all its angles.
When RTSsport goes to cover an event, all the cameras present have the possibility of creating a slow motion and certain people are exclusively responsible for selecting and providing the slow motions for production.
Behind the scenes, everything is a question of communication and organization as explained by Hervé Duperron, slow motion operator for RTSsport. “For one purpose, we only have time for live joy. Right away, we must be able to provide the information if we have it. We give each other directions. If we have the fault, if we have the goal, what axis, etc.“Without forgetting certain rules to respect,”we start from the widest to the tightest and from the longest to the shortest.“
Slow motion does not only have positive points
These replays are not only a plus for the viewers but also for the journalist who comments on the event live. They allow us to tell the story of the match, says Frédéric Scola, RTSsport journalist. “Slow motion is important in the commentary, because it is a moment that will serve the narration. When there is a slow motion that is provided, it means that something significant has generally happened.“To the point of becoming indispensable.”It’s hard to imagine commenting today without using the slow motion tool.“
However, as Jacques Blociszewski, author of the book “The televised football match“, some don’t like this omnipresence of slow motion. The Frenchman speaks “slow motion indigestion” car “because of this too much slow motion, we no longer see the tactics, how the ball moves, we chop up the event and we no longer watch the match with the same intensity because we know that if we miss something important, we can see it again.“
Subject by Stefan Renna (adaptation web: pza)
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