Tennis: French Open - Camera angle/Zoom
Written by Tennis Pro, Sunday May 22 2011
Who is the producer who thinks we need to see 5 feet on both sides of the doubles alleys when they're playing...SINGLES! How 'bout zooming in so we and SEE THE DAM BALL going back and forth.
Do any of these people who produce and direct the camera men on tennis matches ever PLAY TENNIS?!! Obviously NOT! if they did they would know what the viewer wants to see...did the ball go in or out. I don't wanna watch a replay for find out, I wanna see the ACTION, and that means being able to (duh) SEE...THE...BALL when it's in actual flight. Which half the time you can't because the idiot who's operating the camera is zoomed out so far as to make it very difficult to follow the ball on the red clay of Rollin Garos. It's not necessary to even see the doubles alleys when watchin singles play, let alone see 6 feet on both sides of them, so how 'bout zooming in PAST the doubles alleys. Or...maybe the camera man's just too lazy to move the camera back and forth 3 or 4 degrees to follow the action.
Also...we don't need to look up the nose hairs of the person who's serving (so we can experience all his or her "intensity) and then miss seeing the overview shot of the 130 mph serve when it happens!
These are all common sense fixes that wouldn't need to be talked about if the people who produce tennis coverage consider what a viewer really wants to see, because THEY would be asking the same questions as I am, or any serious player would!
GET WITH IT ESPN / TENNIS CHANNEL - Hire a tennis pro to produce tennis coverage not just do commentary!
Roger the Tennis Pro
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