Eric:

Nice daily. The most interesting observation for me is that on a short daily turnaround you worked nine hours. I am more than convinced that news video is on a different schedule than print.

Loved your opening shot of people's feet. Too many times I think people forget to get low or get high shooting video.

The most successful part of the project for me was the cutting back and forth between the player and the young boy. That really highlighted why the day is special for both the athletes and the fans.

Seemed like a lot of hand-held work and I was hoping you could share with FtF why you made that choice. I am wondering if you could also share how you get organized, what your game plan was and if you stuck to your plan.

Glad that you not only review here but post work.

Mike

I certainly wouldn't classify myself as "there" yet but I do feel that the more stories I complete the quicker I am able to assess what I will need while I'm shooting, in turn, that enables me to reach the final edit quicker. Most of the time, all the video I am gathering, I am making note of where this will be in the edit but I didn't always shoot this way. I noticed now that as soon as I hit record whether it's an interview or just B roll I've started editing in my head on how I might use it. But no matter how comfortable I feel in my abilities there is this; I have an ongoing conversation with my colleagues here at the paper about how no video story has ever gone without some hitch whether it be equipment issues, website issues, access issues, traffic, weather one of these things will stick its leg out and send me to the ground, even if for a moment, it has always been there and it is extremely annoying.