Brown helped produce the world feed from the Toronto bubble in 2020 and said a half-dozen of his colleagues there are now with WBD. Most of the camera operators have experience covering the Final for NBC. The crew is the network’s “secret weapon,” TNT lead producer Kevin Brown said. While the Stanley Cup Final is new for some members of the TNT crew, others are Cup veterans and all of them are well seasoned in NHL coverage. Key shots of Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky were part of the drama of Florida's Game 4 win over the Hurricanes TNT crew the ‘secret weapon’ “The sequence from when the puck hit the back of the net until Aleksander Barkov skated off with the trophy was - I’m not sure that we could have done a better job storytelling and capturing the emotion of that moment,” Hemming said. Those are “meat and potato cameras,” Hemming noted, but the calculated gamble paid off when Matthew Tkachuk scored the winner with 5 seconds left. The camera typically isolating Panthers players stayed on Keith Tkachuk. The puck-tracking reverse camera was redirected to Koepka’s box. The high-end zone camera, for example, often provides a good vantage point for a first replay, but it instead stayed trained on Bobrovsky. We took a whole bunch of cameras that would have had regular looks for replays out to capture emotion.” “We pulled a whole bunch of our cameras out of what would be considered regular basic coverage to catch the moment of Matthew Tkachuk’s father celebrating, to see Brooks Koepka cheering in his private box with his team, Sergei Bobrovsky, the goalie. But I feel like, through that, we've really created an emotional attachment with the viewers - regular hockey viewers - and certainly we've attracted new folks to the game of hockey,” he said.įor example, with the Panthers going on a late power play in Eastern Conference Finals Game 4, on the precipice of sweeping the Hurricanes last week, Hemming ordered several cameras to depart from their usual game coverage to ensure that the authentic first reactions of key people would be recorded. “Our coverage is a little bit, I would say, outside the box of regular NHL coverage. How Hemming selects which cameras to use - and even where to place them - is notably different than what hockey fans are used to. Robotic cameras help producers like Paul "Chopper" Hemming capture extraordinary angles ‘Outside the box’ Where we differentiate ourselves in terms of tentpole events - the highest profile shows that we do - is where we get into supplemental coverage like aerials, drones, robotic cameras. “We've been rolling out 12 Super Slow Mos for basically all those. “Our core Wednesday night package is extremely stout,” Hemming said. In collaboration with NHL Productions, both coaches and a player from each team will be mic’d up. TNT has used the same standard setup for its games of the week, but for the Final it will augment the broadcast with additional viewpoints and more microphones. “It's a gamechanger in terms of broadcast technology.” “Hockey is the fastest sport played by humans on the planet, and anything that's super-fast like that looks really good super slow,” he added. It’s “unheard of to have all your base cameras be Super Mos,” Hemming tells SBJ. Seven are placed in traditional stations around the rink, and five are robotic cameras above the glass, inside the nets and on the bottom of the boards. Of that number, 12 are Sony 4300 Super Slow Mo cameras shooting at 180 frames per second, six times the standard 30 fps. The other seven are feeds provided by the league, such as a view from the replay room in Toronto. Discovery is handing the directorial reins to Paul Hemming (known almost universally as “Chopper”), who first directed an NHL game in 1999 but will be making his Stanley Cup Final debut as well.Īt Hemming’s disposal will be 40 cameras, 33 of which belong to TNT. This year’s Stanley Cup Final between the Panthers and Golden Knights will not only crown a first-time champion but will also make its debut on TNT - the first exclusive cable broadcast of the final since ESPN’s coverage in 1994. Joe Lemire TNT’s first Stanley Cup Final will be heavy on Super Slow Mo cameras But I think these Cinderella runs end here: Vegas in 7, Denver in 5. 8 seeds, particularly at the expense of favored Boston teams. It’s been quite a year for South Florida No.
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