Your race coverage is excellent - do you just film it and post it or do you have to speak with the meet director for permission?
Your race coverage is excellent - do you just film it and post it or do you have to speak with the meet director for permission?
I think they only need it for certain events at big meets like Penn.
get your own video credential. yes they will give you one if you explain what you will do with it. call the meet director and get a video credential. tape the races and post them on you tube or get your little computer wiz kid cousin in junior high school to setup a video server for you and upload them yourself. we wanna see more races in the internet and now it's cheap enough for hobbyists to put up videos and pictures. the quality sucks and the coverage is amatuerish but its free. check out sites like flowcasts.com, letsrun.com, eliterunning.com, dyestat.com, photorun.com, the 200,000 photos at trackandfieldphoto.com, fast-women.com, mensracing.com, milesplit.com, etc. that's what's keeping the sport alive. the little guys bouncing around the infield with cameras who then go home and post them from the kitchen table ;-)
Flocast does not host the videos.
They upload them to blip.tv which is like youtube. Letsrun does the same thing. So does kimbia. Anyone can upload the videos and film them at most meets.
No wonder the quality sucks. They use mickey mouse sites like blip.tv. As you can see, if they can do it, so can anyone else, any retard or Mormon. So get out there and shoot some races and find a better video server. take a video class while you are at it. I can barely see the races on dyestat video vault and flowcasts. The guys who post the videos have no talent as camera photographers. They have the heart of a runner and that's commendable but it sucks. We need you guys with art talent to shoot the videos. Not just some bozo you pickup at the Home Depot for a day job, someone from a T.V. station or an arts major.
The problem is that "someone from a T.V. station or an arts major" would more than likely want to be compensated for doing it as they are qualified to do so and may already be involved with something similar that they are getting paid for (real job). I don't think we need to be bashing anyone who takes time to do this for free. If your mom baked you brownies, would you refuse to eat them because they weren't made by a gourmet chef?
txRUNNERgirl wrote:If your mom baked you brownies, would you refuse to eat them because they weren't made by a gourmet chef?
Retarded analogy. Thanks. I hope it didn't take you a signficant amount of time to think that up.
Anyway, yes, at major meets a Media pass will get you access to certain places on the infield/track where spectators can't go. Shoot a meet director an e-mail if you're serious about taking some real footage and they'll arrange for a pass if they feel like it.
It was meant to be a retarded analogy. As retarded as whining about the quality of amateur track videos.
Contact community colleges in your area and get them to shoot the meet. Just a suggestion.
BLIP wrote:
As you can see, if they can do it, so can anyone else, any retard or Mormon.
This is true. Many people don't realize how poor Mormons are filming.
they always fly under the radar. last time i was in Utah i was accosted by a family of six with an old vhs shoulder cam the size of a suitcase. after some brief discussion about the latter days, i accompanied the family home for a slice of bumbleberry pie. while there they showed me some of their video they had shot earlier in the day. it was then that i found out that the video was of the wedding, and that 2 of the younger girls who i originally thought were daughters were actually brides of Luke the dad/husband. the quality of the filming was sooo bad. it was a freaky afternoon, but they gave me an extra slice of bumbleberry pie and some light mormon reading to take on my travels.
AdamLocked wrote:
BLIP wrote:As you can see, if they can do it, so can anyone else, any retard or Mormon.
This is true. Many people don't realize how poor Mormons are filming.
[quote]down mnt zion wrote:
it was a freaky afternoon, but they gave me an extra slice of bumbleberry pie and some light mormon reading to take on my travels.
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McDonald's or homemade?