Image from: Lillie London
December 9-13 was the 15th annual Liberty North Invitational. The girls basketball team took home the 1st place trophy, while the boys played pool play games with three other teams. The broadcasting program streamed all 16 games throughout the week on YouTube.
Senior Bryce Folkers on his audio engineer position during the games for broadcasting:
- “I had the role of audio engineer during the tournament. This means making sure all the microphones are working, making sure the broadcast is mixed well, and working with the director to produce sound that is acceptable for a professional broadcast.”
- “I have helped make many significant improvements to our setup, including hoop mics, floor mics, better audio board setup, etc.”
- “I have composed five original songs for our basketball productions, and even more for football.”
Senior Andrew Lay on his role as executive producer of the tournament:
- “I was the executive producer of the tournament. I was responsible for making the graphics package, camera assignments, and thumbnails for YouTube for each game (16). I also implemented a halftime show and a new camera position, which was a slash camera that we really liked. I made a stat sheet for all 16 games. I made a base format for all 16 games for the director to add on to. I also made a sequence sheet for game situations, Ex, how to cut an inbound or a foul. I also directed the championship game.”
- “The day of each game, I had the director, announcers, and graphics go over the opening of their game and any specials that they wanted to do during their game. I made sure that all of the graphics were done before each game, and a couple of hours before the tournament each day, I set up cameras, and about an hour before each game, I went over camera assignments with the camera crew and director so everyone was on the same page. Before the next game, I made the tape/replay melt of the game so that we could post the replays on social media to promote the tournament. I switched over to a new tape/replay job, the graphics were switched for the next teams, and all positions were comfortable with how to do their job for the next game.”
- “Since I was the Executive producer, I was helping everyone out, observing, and making sure the director knew and gave their cues to people in the control room and announcers. During my production as director, I studied stats so I could have many graphics to run during the game. I met with my graphics coordinator, so he knew all the specials and had an idea of when to run them (also located on the spreadsheet). Talked with my announcers so we can go over how we can practice the open, how to throw to breaks/interviews, along with time cues. We would try to incorporate new things, for instance, we tried out a half-time 1st half recap, and also had my sideline reporters get coach interviews along with student sections, and anything they thought would be interesting to produce live.”