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Other Saturday results programmes are available. *ahem*
As others have said, a fair bit of that can be automated. I went to a talk at Red Bee over a decade ago now, where their data visualisations team explained their system. It took in data from PA (though Opta provide sports data feeds too), but also allowed for manual updates - eg where they had a reporter on the ground who could report a goal faster than it trickled through the PA system - and made sure it didn't count the same goal twice. This local database can then be used to build the videprinter, 'as it stands' league tables, and all sorts of other stats that the producer might want. They then looked at what other data feeds PA provided, and realised that it with a little tweaking they could use it for election nights too.
For a programme with a lot of outside sources, you might use a second gallery as a hub, so that the main gallery has a bit less to worry about. (In a similar way, an OB truck doing a football match only really worries about cutting between cameras - when it's time to go to replays, they'll cut to the output of a separate VT unit, and a VT co-ord and team of EVS operators will do the hard work).
It also helps if you've got an on-the-ball MCR to make sure you've got all the incoming feeds you need, and to sort things out if anything drops. And they may be looking after a couple of dozen other feeds for other programmes at the same time. I do quite like busy days like that at work - they're far from boring!
thegeek
Founding member
Final Score must be a ridiculously complicated programme to put together.
About 20 different sources, each one could be cut up at a moments notice, the sound and then the graphics, which themselves have to reflect what the reporter is saying.
Umpteen on screen graphics rotating around that have to be updated as well as the vidiprinter.
Then there is directing the actual studio programme as well.
The same applies to Soccer Saturday on Sky as well.
About 20 different sources, each one could be cut up at a moments notice, the sound and then the graphics, which themselves have to reflect what the reporter is saying.
Umpteen on screen graphics rotating around that have to be updated as well as the vidiprinter.
Then there is directing the actual studio programme as well.
The same applies to Soccer Saturday on Sky as well.
Other Saturday results programmes are available. *ahem*
As others have said, a fair bit of that can be automated. I went to a talk at Red Bee over a decade ago now, where their data visualisations team explained their system. It took in data from PA (though Opta provide sports data feeds too), but also allowed for manual updates - eg where they had a reporter on the ground who could report a goal faster than it trickled through the PA system - and made sure it didn't count the same goal twice. This local database can then be used to build the videprinter, 'as it stands' league tables, and all sorts of other stats that the producer might want. They then looked at what other data feeds PA provided, and realised that it with a little tweaking they could use it for election nights too.
For a programme with a lot of outside sources, you might use a second gallery as a hub, so that the main gallery has a bit less to worry about. (In a similar way, an OB truck doing a football match only really worries about cutting between cameras - when it's time to go to replays, they'll cut to the output of a separate VT unit, and a VT co-ord and team of EVS operators will do the hard work).
It also helps if you've got an on-the-ball MCR to make sure you've got all the incoming feeds you need, and to sort things out if anything drops. And they may be looking after a couple of dozen other feeds for other programmes at the same time. I do quite like busy days like that at work - they're far from boring!