{"id":16165,"date":"2012-07-09T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=16165"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:59:57","slug":"nashville-crew-goes-to-the-womens-college-world-series-for-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2012\/nashville-crew-goes-to-the-womens-college-world-series-for-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Crew Goes to the Women\u2019s College World Series for ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn\u2019t know a whole bunch about women\u2019s softball prior to my trip to Oklahoma City, OK.\u00a0 After ten days of shooting for ESPN I was practically breathing it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happens when something like softball dictates your life for a week and a half.<\/p>\n

I was ESPN\u2019s ENG guy for the series, shooting on the Panasonic Varicam.\u00a0 My week started with shooting \u201cteam cappers\u201d and player b-roll.\u00a0 Throughout the day the ladies of the eight teams competing made their way to the basement of the Softball Hall of Fame.\u00a0 Originally we wanted to shoot these on the softball field but crummy weather forced us inside.\u00a0 We also shot interviews and team line ups.<\/p>\n

\"\"Once the series started things shifted into high gear.\u00a0 I shot b-roll during the games, trophy shots, and exteriors of the ballpark.\u00a0 Throughout the week I also covered events related to the World Series such as the OU team taking a trip to the Zoo.\u00a0 By far the most important thing I shot was post-game interviews.\u00a0 These interviews were used in the teases before each game.\u00a0 I was given a small room and a cool backdrop for the interviews.\u00a0 Given the limited space I had I used a scissor clamp to hang my key light and actually mounted the backdrop to the wall rather then clutter the room with more stands.<\/p>\n

Once the series was down to two teams we shot a longer tease for the first game of the championship.\u00a0 Luckily we had the weather on our side this time.\u00a0 We shot OU\u2019s sound bites in the bleachers and Alabama\u2019s on the field.\u00a0 Once we had the sound bites we needed we got some b-roll shots of the players holding the trophy.\u00a0 We only had 30 minutes with each team so I was really moving at the speed of light.\u00a0 On top of that I was my own audio guy too.\u00a0 To save some time I showed one of the PA\u2019s how to hide the mic.\u00a0 I was still doing sound checks and monitoring the levels but not having to mic the players was a huge time saver and allowed me to focus on making sure the shot looked super cool.<\/p>\n

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OU's softball team feeds the Giraffes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To cap an already awesome week the last thing I shot was with Charles Barkley.\u00a0 With the Women\u2019s College World Series and the NBA Finals in OK City Mr. Barkley had apparently been saying he could hit a fast pitch softball with no problem.\u00a0 Well ESPN and TNT thought it would be funny to set up a chance for Barkley to prove it.\u00a0 Play by play announcer and former softball player, Michele Smith threw Barkley some pitches.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t hit them.<\/p>\n

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Charles Barkley prepares for a fast pitch softball.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had a blast in Oklahoma City.\u00a0 Shooting for ESPN was nothing short of awesome.\u00a0 I hope to be back in Oklahoma City next year.<\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t know a whole bunch about women\u2019s softball prior to my trip to Oklahoma City, OK.\u00a0 After ten days of shooting for ESPN I was practically breathing it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happens when something like softball dictates your life for a week and a half. I was ESPN\u2019s ENG guy for the series, shooting on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[111,1538,1333,1963],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}