I am quite eager to read Jesse’s piece on boxing coverage. I don’t know if he decided to only focus on filming boxing for film or whether he also investigated live coverage. I think the latter would provide a very interesting basis for research. Reflecting on my own exposure to live sport coverage I can think of a few changes which have occurred but they seem mostly based around technology advancements. I suppose advancements in camera technologies have changed the cinema as well, allowing for different coverage and the overuse of the drone shot over a city establishing shot. But what I think Jesse touched on at least in his presentation is a question of what could you gain from looking at sports coverage in terms of our subject? I suppose the overall découpage of any sports match is just to cover the main action of any game but is there any other thought process that goes into this? Do they choose when to cut between camera to camera in some sort of order in a cricket match? Or do they just follow the ball as best they can?
I hope Jesse’s piece may touch on this, id is interested to see what the overall changes have been and if there is much correlation between that and films. This may only come in the form of analysing boxing but following that it may be something I chose to look into in the future.