Fox Footy Camerawork

[CrippsyCream]

Does anyone else find it close to unbearable? Compared to channel 7 it's completely amateur. The amount of times they lose the ball drives me insane. I wish they'd just pan out and stick with the ball.

 

[King Wavo]

I find that channel 7 do way too many close ups. It's easy to lose track of what's going on.

 

[tumtum]

Yeh Channel 7 are 1000x worse. Player's facial expressions are apparently more important than knowing what the hell is going on.

 

[Lithium]

I wish they would just have the one angle for live play. Only use the other angles for replays. They are constantly changing from close up to a wide view to behind the goals.
Both 7 and fox are guilty of it.

 

[Established1870]

Channel 7>Fox Footy>Channel 10 (remember those days?)

 

[Hoooops]

It's too fast for me, but 7 isn't great either...

 

[kingswood71]

I wish they would just have the one angel for live play. Only use the other angels for replays. They are constantly changing from close up to a wide view to behind the goals.
Both 7 and fox are guilty of it.

Yep this annoys me too! If I wanted to watch the game from behind the goals while sitting at the very top of the 3rd tier, then I would! Sometimes the ball is at the other half forward line and we are still watching from behind the goals!
The WAFL uses what 2 camera's?? and does a lot better job!

 

[Fat Nyfe]

Compared to channel 7 it's completely amateur

You must be on drugs.

Channel 7's AFL coverage is one of the worst of any station, for any sport in the world

 

[Kram]

Camera angles at the SCG are often pretty crappy for some reason.

 

[CrippsyCream]

You must be on drugs.

Channel 7's AFL coverage is one of the worst of any station, for any sport in the world

Yes, what I personally find unbearable makes me on drugs.

Can't stand the commentary on 7, but I don't find myself constantly watching a screen with no ball in the picture like on Fox.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Camera angles at the SCG are often pretty crappy for some reason.

I noticed a lot of shots were bit behind and diagonal. Camera placement on the stands must be poor.

 

[jack son 5]

I wish they would just have the one angel for live play. Only use the other angels for replays. They are constantly changing from close up to a wide view to behind the goals.
Both 7 and fox are guilty of it.

 

[TheTrademark]

Good camerawork makes a huge difference. Especially the goal review. Saying that, the umpires cam is often a really good shot (I suppose as it is only a little above the umpires eye shot).

A little off topic, but Channel 9's cricket camerawork is amazing and when you see Channel 10 do it for the big bash, you see how amazing channel 9 are at it. From memory, never bothered by the camera work for the AFL when 9 had it.

 

[CrippsyCream]

Good camerawork makes a huge difference. Especially the goal review. Saying that, the umpires cam is often a really good shot (I suppose as it is only a little above the umpires eye shot).

A little off topic, but Channel 9's cricket camerawork is amazing and when you see Channel 10 do it for the big bash, you see how amazing channel 9 are at it. From memory, never bothered by the camera work for the AFL when 9 had it.

I agree with you on the cricket. I guess the talent pool is pretty thin. You'd have to have a good understanding of the game, at times today you would see a player shape to handball one direction and the camera couldn't keep up when it was executed.

 

[DuckToaster]

I don't see why, we as viewers cannot have a selection of cameras, either static or ball following in 2016. I also don't understand why we cannot have a selection of various commentary sources. This is why the internet will take over eventually. Imagine a constant birds eye view of the turf on one screen, and the usual play by play camerawork on another! Along with a choice of commentary teams or no commentary at all. We're stuck in the dark ages as far as sports broadcasting goes in this country. Probably a good thing though, because then nobody would go to the games.

 

[Topkent]

Might be alone on this but I hate the camera angle of behind the player or behind the goal when someone's having a shot
I love the suspense of the side on shot hearing for the crowd noise watching the goal umpire move etc

Everything seems to be more is better these days but I'm a big fan of less is more

 

[Chuckie357]

Channel 7s use of the stupid boxes and then having them expand back to main play is by far the worst thing ever seen but then ago foxtel' stupid background music is not much better

 

[JPetro83]

The camera work at the carlton v Crows game was the worst ive seen. absolute disgrace!! the morons couldn't keep up. ARGH!!!!

 

[dave123]

I watch NFL and NBA on ESPN and dead set our guys are poor compared to the pros

Then they the commentators speak .......err memo to Leigh Mathews

Duggan and Cripps look different, play different positions and are about six years apart and are not from the same state ....besides that it's same same

Also Duggan wasn't even in the team yesterday ...time to go to the old peoples home Leigh

 

[Demonic Ascent]

I thought channel 7 was far worse until I had to watch our game in Darwin last Saturday. The camerawork in that game was horrific.

 

[Turboman1994]

Might be alone on this but I hate the camera angle of behind the player or behind the goal when someone's having a shot
I love the suspense of the side on shot hearing for the crowd noise watching the goal umpire move etc

Everything seems to be more is better these days but I'm a big fan of less is more

Nope I agree simple pan from the wing for me. The behind the goal one shits me off I can't tell the dept of play properly

 

[BoxMatrix]

I don't see why, we as viewers cannot have a selection of cameras, either static or ball following in 2016. I also don't understand why we cannot have a selection of various commentary sources. This is why the internet will take over eventually. Imagine a constant birds eye view of the turf on one screen, and the usual play by play camerawork on another! Along with a choice of commentary teams or no commentary at all. We're stuck in the dark ages as far as sports broadcasting goes in this country. Probably a good thing though, because then nobody would go to the games.

I hate channel 7 football so much, but this sort of technology does not exist.

Commentary cannot be changed due to contract reasons. For example Channel 7 are pay Bruce $100,000 (pure guess), they want you to listen to him. Not to the crowd.

The camera angles thing is stupid and no money will ever be spent on being able to change camera angles unless Fox wants to have 15 different channels for one game.

We may be behind in some aspects such as HD until a month ago, but the ideas you suggested just don't exist anywhere in the world.

 

[D-N-R]

Camera angles at the SCG are often pretty crappy for some reason.

I think they are too low so you can see more players in the foreground and background but with little idea how far apart they really are.

The camerawork this year has been awful generally. Close up of some play and then someone handballs to another player out of screen shot and then they cut to a wider shot, then you have to spend a moment trying to work out which part of the screen to look at. It's either super wide or super close shot.

Sack 2 commentators and employ 2 more camera operators.

 

[Topkent]

How horrible was it when they zoomed in on stringer before he snapped the final goal against the tigers, I dont want to see a close up of him I want to see the ****ing ground!

 

[Elite Master]

One thing channel 7 does better these days is the picture-in-picture mode where if they show a replay of something they will show the live action play in a small box on the bottom right hand corner so we don't miss out on anything.