Panthers Media Output

[kezypanther]

Saw this yesterday and was reminded by the Matt Nickerson video. Haven't seen it on here and think it is worth discussing.

Posted on the Panthers Facebook group.


Hello all.

Most of you don't know me and I'm not very vocal on this group but I'm the guy who was brought in to film the panthers home games.

I understand that a lot of people haven't been very happy with highlights and the opening video this year. I also understand that there isn't much contact between fans and members of the panthers office team. I just wanted to give you a little idea of where we, the panthers visual media team are at this point in time.

Less than two years ago we were asked to be a second camera man for the panthers highlights. After two weeks due to complications that are unknown to me I was asked if we were able to take over the reigns and produce the whole thing. Since that time we have taken a single camera production and turned it into a multi camera production that in my opinion competes with what teams have been doing for years. I also produce the weekly CIO show. I want to focus on the highlights in the post and ask you, the fans what you believe we should change.

If you could use the highlights from the second half of the season as a example of what we make now that would be best. That is the brief that we are given with what time and budget we have. Also bare in mind that there is only one person able to film normal game and two for Sheffield games.

One thing I will say is that it's going to be a long process before we can rival what is undoubtably a better production in Sheffield. Regardless of the manpower and experience that they have the arena they play in is a lot more accommodating technically, allowing them to do a lot more with live streaming etc...

Please know that we are working, and working hard to give you the best highlights/media content we can. We try to give you fresh, innovative ideas that are different to what everyone else is doing. We do this to lead instead of follow but obviously not everything will be liked.

This leads me to the opening video. When a team clears house is extremely hard to make a 'highlight' based video for a fan base that wants to be excited for a future team. I also saw a huge number of fans calling for something 'new' that was for the fans and wasn't just highlights. With this information I made something that put the fans first and throughout the video and was different to what any team was doing at the time. I understand that the opening video wasn't enjoyed by a lot of the fans and was called unprofessional and dull. I made the changes that were available to me after enough highlights had been produced and adapted it to attempt to make amends. I still stand by my work and will be posting both versions of the video at the end of this season to this page so you can see it in full definition with sync'd audio and not on what can only be described as a bright orange poster screen.
Hopefully next season if I am asked to make another it will be more to the fans taste with hits, highlights and goals. They will still look like they play in orange though and there is nothing I can do about that.

I want to say it's been a privilege for me, a life long panthers fan to work with the team and for the fans for the past two seasons and I hope we can keep making what I believe to be huge jumps forward in the standard of media that is produced for the mighty Nottingham Panthers.

Thank you for all your patience, please put any ideas, suggestions and criticisms in the comments, all are appreciated.

Here's to the playoffs.

Matt Daunt

[BigLad]

Which Panthers facebook group?

[PantherB]

GMB Nottingham Panthers.

He's got nads to publicly state what they do and to even ask what fans want to see, it's funny how those who slate the highlights haven't commented on it!

Fair play to him though, you wouldn't get Panthers ask what fans want in a discussion way, they take the ideas of very few and assume it's what everyone wants, even then they'll change the idea to something they feel would be better so in the end it's actually just their idea but they credit the fans to make it look as if we aren't being taken for mugs.

[reece182]

Highlights are good for obvious limited resources so keep up the good work, only thing is lack of streaming live feeds at home games, we're one of the only ones who's not, missing a trick here with income and getting the game out to the mass people! Especially ones who live far away and can only get to 10 games a season or so I'd happily pay to watch it on a game to game or a sort of season ticket type of thing?

[Deleted]

The highlights I don't have a problem with at all. They do the job for me.

Checking it Out, is also not a bad idea really but there's just one huge grey haired elephant in that room. While he is on that show(or involved in the club in general) it'll always be held back.

For what it's worth the Panthers media stuff is light years ahead of where it was a few years ago but we are still left far behind a number of other clubs.

[reece182]

Is there a reason why we don't have live feeds

[Deleted]

If he/they are still in the job next season I'll be amazed.

Broken rank.

[Yotes]

Mar 22, 2016 17:06:17 GMT reece182 said:

Is there a reason why we don't have live feeds

This guy seems to be suggesting it's the same reason we don't have banners in the rafters - blame the arena. I would suspect the truth is the cost.

Mar 22, 2016 17:22:37 GMT @jordannooooooo said:

If he/they are still in the job next season I'll be amazed.

Broken rank.

Must admit this was my first thought too, brave or foolhardy.

The highlights are fine, the A/V quality is good, Eddie commentates pretty well although he can be a bit of a cliche merchant. But as usual they're as minimal as possible, the last ones I can find (from the Steelers game) last 4 and a half minutes, almost entirely just the goals (couple of Cam moments chucked in), and then 30 seconds of advert tacked on the end. I presume this is because someone still thinks selling game DVDs is a thing.

CIO, I haven't watched for ages. I stuck with it for a while, but it was GMTV and rarely changed from one show to the next. That awful bit with the Chick Zamick gantry or whatever it was called, do they still do that? Again, there's nothing wrong with these things technically, it's not badly filmed or mixed, the content is just dull. We killed off The Locker Room (which again wasn't brilliant, but at least was somewhat independent and didn't feature Gary every week) for that.

The opening video, I'm sorry but complaining about the scoreboard seems a really weak excuse. Where else was it going to be shown? Besides, the problem with that video wasn't the quality of the picture, or the synchronicity of the sound, it was, again, the content. A bunch of fans and a couple of players ambling through the Lace Market. This is supposed to be our 70th year (calm down, spik), surely that one writes itself? Being old is pretty much the only thing we can hold over a lot of our rivals (excepting Fife).

I don't really blame these guys for defending their stuff, I'm sure they're working with at least one hand tied behind their backs.

[titch]

Last years intro video was filmed with the players wearing only the black jerseys, which I can assume is because the Jumbotron is absolutely ancient technology, coloring is awful and you can only just barely play pre-recorded videos on it! Cardiff have done a great job with just sticking four screens together, much higher quality and a hell of a lot cheaper. You can hook up your own technology to it and update it instantly. The screens can also be replaced pretty quickly in case they want to upgrade to better resolutions and such.

The video highlights started off decently but have quickly got worse, our commentator is pretty basic and just shouts stuff on the microphone, I believe a lot more can be done but then again, they're mostly watched by people who attended the game anyway!

There's not much else that can be done but a proper intro video and entrance (not just names on the screen but pictures of the players too) would be great, most of our fans don't sit in their seats until the game is literally just about to start, unless it's a Steelers game, then they're sat in their seats instantly, funny that.

[iginla]

Don't have a problem with the highlights,apart from Eddie spoils it a little.
Checking it out is ok with the right players,but Moran totally spoils it with his corniness and cringeworthy content.

The entry video was a decent idea,but the music is just a terrible drab awful thing that instantly makes me think the fans are a load of zombies trundling along looking for a horror film to star in.

[Higgy]

Without a screen upgrade to something such as Sheffield's the intro video will ever be that good, especially at showing hockey action, the pixels are just too big but again would the arena want to upgrade this without Panthers putting some money towards it?

[EMB]

We will never rival what Belfast do, they are absolutely brilliant,. One of the best Christmas videos and just recently they are doing a car drive around Belfast with Keefe, Lloyd and Nickerson. Their players are so relaxed and look like they are having fun, being left to do their own thing, ours look like a bunch of dummies being interrogated on the couch and bored stiff (except Cam). if they aren't confident in front of the camera which some of them clearly aren't then leave them out. I enjoyed the Locker room it was informative and quite interesting but Gary put a stop to that and had CHris removed.

[The Flying Shirt]

Cardiffs new score board setup is perfect.

[spik]

......,,,,,me?...... I'm saying nowt.

[kezypanther]

It'll be interesting to see what the actual video looks like, he did say he is uploading it, so we will soon see if it is the screen.

Unfortunately I don't think we will be seeing a new screen anytime soon. Why we installed the one we did I have no idea it sucks.

I am glad the media group have started to ask the fans as it's something we never get from our org.