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HOW
WE FILM, EDIT & PRODUCE
MENS' (or LADIES) SUNDAY LEAGUE TEAMS' CUP FINALS & OTHER MATCHES
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Mens (& Ladies) Sunday League Team Cup Finals are filmed from as near to the half-way
line as possible, using just the one camera on a tripod from a reasonable
vantage point in (or on top of) a main stand of a Non-League Club's
stadium (which is where most Cup Finals are played).
For Cup Finals and other matches which are played at more basic venues, we
will try and use a small scaffolding structure or some sturdy tables
if we can, so that our cameramen can at least get some sort of vantage point
and an unobstructed view of the
action.
Depending where our cameraman is filming the game from, we normally film the post-match presentations of trophies and medals
by taking the camera off the tripod and using it 'shoulder-mounted' at the
presentation table to enable
good close-up shots of the delight (or misery) on players' faces !
All Cup
Finals filmed before April 2001 were recorded using an S-VHS camera which produced a good quality
image, but that was greatly improved when we upgraded to the Mini-DV (Digital) format
thereafter.
Our cameramen then invariably began to use
the
Canon XM2 or
the Sony PD150 or
PD170
range of digital cameras, all of which produced broadcast quality pictures.
From Season 2007-2008 onwards though, our cameramen
are now using even better cameras such as the
Canon XHA1, the
Sony HVR-Z1E and the
JVC GY-HD251E
and all matches will subsequently be filmed, edited & produced
in the widescreen (16:9) format. Most TV stations now broadcast all football
matches in widescreen, so we anticipate that most of our customers will
already have widescreen TV sets on which to view their DVD's. If you are
watching our DVD's on a standard 4:3 ratio TV set, the DVD's should display
in widescreen with black bars at the top and bottom of the picture.
Sometime during Season 2008-2009, we are hoping to start filming and
producing matches in high definition on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs. Our cameras can already film in that
format, but Blu-Ray or HD-DVD recorders and players are not readily
available at this moment in time. Please note that prices for filming,
editing & production in high definition (HDV) are also likely to be a lot
more expensive than we charge for the current standard definition (SD)
format.
After filming the match, the camera master tape is edited using computer
software which inserts slow-motion replays, titles and transitions.
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finished (fully-edited) version is then kept as the Master Copy for an
unlimited period of time, both in tape format and on DVD, so copies for
customers can then be run off straight away or at any time in the future (as
per those listed in our Catalogues on this website).
All Mens (& Ladies) Sunday League
Team Cup Finals & Other Match DVD's include the full
match with Extra-Time & Penalties if necessary, together with all the usual
post-match presentations, but we do not do a match commentary or film
interviews and dressing-room scenes, mainly because the cost of recruiting
extra cameramen or a commentator is too
expensive for the average Sunday League club.
All copies of Mens (& Ladies) Sunday
League Team Cup Final & Other Match DVD's are supplied in presentation
boxes with full colour inserts featuring still-frame shots of footage from
the actual match.
(See the example left).
Sunday League Teams' Matches filmed from March 2004 feature a far superior
quality of picture, slow-motion replays and titling due to the acquisition
of new computer-based editing equipment. The
DVD's produced from March 2004 include menus
and chapters whereby the goals can be accessed at the click of a button
rather than by rewinding and searching.
(DVD's of matches that were edited & produced
before March 2004
are straightforward copies from S-VHS master tapes, so they do
not include menus and
chapters). |
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HOW WE GET BOOKED TO FILM SUNDAY LEAGUE CUP FINALS & other matches |
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.jpg) We
have filmed numerous Cup Finals for Men's Sunday League Teams since
1990, most of them as a result of one of the participating teams reaching
a Final after beating our sponsored club Edmonton Rovers in an earlier round and
buying a copy of the Match Video/DVD.
However, with Hughes Video Services owner Laurence Hughes having been
Secretary of Edmonton Rovers since their formation 32 years ago, he has built up a number
of contacts in Men's Sunday Football in the North London & East Herts
area during that time which has resulted in most if not all of the
established Men's Sunday League Clubs in that area being aware of the
facilities that Hughes Video Services have to offer and several Cup Finals
have therefore been filmed on the basis of a good reputation.
Our contact details and website
address is included on the back of every video/DVD insert that we produce,
including those for Edmonton Rovers matches
(See the example right), and
many bookings that we receive to film matches are from clubs who have seen
another club's video or DVD and contacted us as a result.
We also receive a lot of bookings for filming Cup Finals because our
prices are so low in comparison to other video companies. We prefer to
charge a low price for filming, editing & production and charge relatively
high prices for extra copies rather than the other way round. This ensures
that Sunday League clubs can afford to have their game filmed in the first place.
This is explained in more detail on our
Pricing page.
Over the past few years, and
especially since we started producing matches on DVD, we have received
numerous compliments from satisfied customers who are impressed with our
finished product, and for Mens' (& Ladies) Sunday Teams, there is a great
boost for team spirit when the whole team get together to watch their Cup
Final DVD on a big screen down the pub. For them, it is just like watching
the Premiership !
Click here to see
just a few of the testimonials we have received.
Please note that if your team play
Edmonton Rovers in any match, you will be able to buy just one copy of that
match on DVD for only £11.00 (plus postage & packing if necessary), even if
it is a Cup Final...not that that is likely to happen, as Edmonton Rovers
First Team have not reached a Cup Final since 1985 !
If you want a Cup Final (or any other
match) filmed that does NOT involve Edmonton Rovers, then you have to pay
the full Filming, Editing & Production fees that are listed
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WHY
YOU SHOULD CHOOSE US TO FILM YOUR CUP FINAL (or
any other match) |
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When
a Mens' Sunday League team reaches a Cup Final, one of the first ideas that
comes to mind is to capture the event on video.
However, that usually
means getting a non-playing member of the club to use his new mobile phone
camera while holding a pint of lager and/or a fag in his other hand !
Of course, filming a football match is not that easy, especially
when you have had a 'few beers' beforehand and subsequently
have the urge to jump around and celebrate with the rest of your mates in
the crowd when your team scores the winning goal in the last minute
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Needless to say, when the winning team then get together to watch
the video after the match all they can see is the sky, the back of
somebody's head in the crowd or close-up shots of a few blades of grass on
the near touchline with no sign of any goals being captured on film at all
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This is where Hughes Video
Services come in, as we can offer you the following:
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- FILMING OF THE WHOLE MATCH
(including Extra-Time & Penalties if necessary)
- FILMING
OF POST-MATCH PRESENTATIONS OF CUPS & MEDALS
- SLOW-MOTION
REPLAYS OF GOALS & MAJOR INCIDENTS
- TITLES
& CAPTIONS including BOTH TEAMS LINE-UPS &
FORMATIONS, GOALSCORERS NAMES, SUBSTITUTIONS, LATEST SCORE, etc.
- STEADY
CAMERAWORK WITH GOOD CLOSE-UPS AND EXCELLENT SOUND & PICTURE
QUALITY
- COLOUR INSERTS FOR EACH COPY OF
THE DVD (or video) INCLUDING STILL-FRAME
PICTURES TAKEN FROM THE ACTUAL MATCH FOOTAGE
- WE CAN FILM MATCHES ON ANY DAY
OF THE WEEK (Evening Matches included)
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Basically,
we are very aware of how football is covered on T.V. and we make every
effort to transfer their ideas to our coverage of Amateur &
Semi-Professional Football. Some of the ideas we have picked up on are
when to cut away to the crowd or the Team Managers, when to zoom in on the referee (after he
has made a 'contentious' decision), when to put in a slow-motion replay,
having the current score displayed in the top left-hand corner of the
screen,
and the use of titling effects to merge a team line-up into
a formation with the players warming up in the background. Most
importantly though, unlike other video companies who attempt to film
football matches with just the one camera, we do not film cut-aways of the
crowd while the ball is in play !
Obviously, we cannot reproduce the sort of coverage that they manage on
Sky (with 20 cameras dotted around the ground and hi-tech graphics in abundance), but for Amateur & Semi-Professional
footballers the most important thing is getting the match filmed properly
for an affordable price and we manage to do that rather well !
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We do not put
a commentary on our Cup Final
DVD's and
we no longer film pre-match build-ups such as coach journeys or interviews with players
and managers. The reason for that is the lack of additional
personnel available to carry out such jobs, together with the extra
editing work it involves. Ultimately, it results in clubs waiting twice
as long for their finished product, while we also
have to charge them twice or even three times as much as normal to pay
for the extra cameramen, commentators and possible hire of equipment.
We
prefer to offer a basic and affordable service whereby only one
cameraman is used to film the match and the presentation ceremony only.
By doing this, we can cover more matches for more clubs.
- Our cameramen
film all matches as a complete neutral and show no favouritism towards
any one side (such as refusing to zoom in on a goalscorer because he
is playing for a team who have not initially booked us to film the
match). This is because the team who have not booked us may decide after
the match that they would like to share the filming fee and order
copies.
- In general, we only film matches within a
50-mile radius from our base in Edmonton, North London, and our pricing
structure covers that distance. As a rough guide, the most Northerly
point we cover is Cambridge, to the East is Colchester,
to the West is Oxford, the South-West is Basingstoke and the South-East
is Ashford (Kent).
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DOES YOUR CLUB HAVE A
WEBSITE ? |
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If your club books us
to film a match, we will give their club website a free listing on our
Links page |
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INFORMATION
WE REQUIRE WHEN YOU BOOK US TO FILM YOUR MATCH
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Once
we have all the above information, we then check on the availability of
a cameraman and once that is confirmed, we then send you a Confirmation
of Booking letter by e-mail which will give you all the necessary details.
The Confirmation of Booking letter will also instruct you whether to pay
the cameraman on the day or whether to send a cheque to our office. This is because some of our cameramen are
freelance operators who we prefer to pay ourselves once they have given
us the camera master tape from the actual match. |
INFORMATION
WE REQUIRE ON THE DAY OF THE MATCH
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Your
cameraman for the match will normally arrive at the venue an hour before
the kick-off. On doing so, they may find that the person who has
booked us to film the match is busy doing a team-talk or getting
changed. In that case, the cameraman will quite often go straight into
the stands or onto the side of the pitch to look for the best vantage
point from which to film the match from, so it is best to approach him
when you come out onto the pitch if he has not introduced himself to you
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To enable us to produce a DVD of the quality that
we advertise, it is essential that on the day of the match our cameraman is
supplied with an official match programme (if there is one)
and given the following information regarding your team: |
- YOUR PLAYERS FULL NAMES (no
initials or middle names) and CORRECT NUMBERS OF SHIRTS WORN ON THE
DAY. (Please watch out for any mis-prints of players names in the
match-day programme).
- YOUR TEAM’S STARTING FORMATION
(e.g. 4-4-2, 3-5-2, etc. and who played where)
- YOUR TEAM’S COLOURS PLAYED IN
ON THE DAY. (These colours will be used on the presentation box for
the finished copies unless you inform us that you were wearing a change
of kit and you would prefer your normal colours)
- CAPTAIN’S NAME
- GOALSCORERS (in order of
who scored)
- SUBSTITUTIONS MADE (who
came on for who and at roughly what time in the match...this is
especially important if any half-time substitutions are made)
- BOOKINGS or SENDING-OFFS
(if any)
- TEAM MANAGER’S NAME
- REFEREE & ASSISTANT REFEREE'S
NAMES
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At
most of the Cup Finals we film, we find that the Team Manager is
normally (and understandably) too busy to write out all the above
details for us, so we strongly advise clubs to appoint another club
member as being responsible for providing this information for our
cameraman. It is always best if a club can find somebody to write things
down as the match goes on, especially for details such as the correct
shirt numbers for players, substitutions made and the goalscoring order,
as these can all be easily forgotten after a match and it
is extremely difficult for us to guess which player is which if we do
not have the correct shirt numbers available when we are editing the
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