Imagine
covering an event where there are 51 teams, three days of competition
and a 12,000-acre playing field. The Super Bowl seem like
a cake walk compared to filming this event.
For
the 10th consecutive year, CSE, formerly Career Sports &
Entertainment, an integrated sports and entertainment company
documented every minute of the 40th annual Bassmaster Classic that took place in Birmingham, Ala.
Feb. 19-21, transforming the fishing action into six hours of
short-turnaround programming throughout the event with same-day airings
on Saturday and Sunday.
Here is just a brief recap of what it took to accomplish the feat.
Bassmaster Classic by the numbers
216 – Hours of footage shot on the water
144 – Number of people on-site
44 – Hours of footage shot during the weigh-ins
40 – Number of features shot prior and during event
26 – Number of cameras at the event
15.5 – Hours of programming that will make it on the air (original plus re-airs)
7 – Hours of Hooked UP streamed live on
ESPNOutdoors.com.
15 – Camera boats and tape runner boats
1 – Helicopter that only ran tapes 50 miles from Lay Lake to the Birmingham edit suites
1 - Helicopter shooting 15 hours of aerial footage
Technical equipment used:
8 – Avid Field editing systems
1 – Avid unity media network
2 – Mobile units including “CSE Mobile” and “NEP’s SS22”
18 – Cameras
3 – Networked 3D graphic workstations
Online resources needed:
4 – Publishers
2 – Photographers
4 – Writers
3 – Support staff members
1 – Hooked UP talent
1,200 – Photographs shot, edited and published
75 – Stories and blogs written, edited and published
150 – Kyte videos shot and published
