Re: RC: Olympics coverage~it can work

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Debi
That's what I was thinking!! Could be great and it would take someone
like you, of your stature, to help sell the idea. I hope you are
available if this sport goes Olympic. Heck, I may even have to climb on
a horse, take my digital TV camera and join you!!<BG> (Have to be on
someone else's' horse, though. Mine would look at me and say "You want
me to go HOW MANY MILES??!!!"
Bette


DebiG54@aol.com wrote:
> 
> To all:
> 
>  Televising a live endurance competition has been done, and well, but could
> be done much better quite easily.  It could be shot much like the Tour de
> France bike race is.  The leaders are followed, along with a lot of the
> intriguing side stories (oldest rider, youngest rider, that sort of thing).
> It wouldn't even take a lot of manpower.
> 
>  I used to be a TV reporter and helped Susan Gibson televise onsite her last
> Race of Champions in Pennsylvania.  There was one cameraman and me.  We
> preplanned where we would shoot the trail and zipped around like fools for
> the entire race.  He did the camera work, and I provided the on camera
> commentary and interviewing.  A couple of crews could easily blanket a race,
> both on the trail and in the vet checks and the finish line.  With satellite
> trucks, all of this could be broadcast live.  Otherwise, it can be edited and
> packaged later.  Not hard at all for experienced sports TV crews.
> 
>  My opinion is that, done professionally, endurance racing could have huge
> appeal to an audience.  There is a lot of drama in what we do.  There's
> sweat, blood, tears--a lot of thrill of victory and agony of defeat stuff.
> That's good TV.  And there's a lot of horse hugging, too.  It sounds corny,
> but people love the human bonding with animals theme, too.  There is a lot of
> potential for truly successful broadcasting of endurance racing.
> 
>  Debi Gordon
> 
> 
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Bette Lamore
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