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A little peek into commentary life, and the kind of work that helps make it possible. Could be useful for aspiring sport commentators. This is from the Women’s World T20 final done earlier this year for @AkashvaniAIR & @ddsportschannel.
A little peek into commentary life, and the kind of work that helps make it possible. Could be useful for aspiring sport commentators. This is from the Women’s World T20 final done earlier this year for @AkashvaniAIR & @ddsportschannel.
This is not even inclusive of the pre -match notes, where you jot down as much information as you can on each player - bios, debut, career graph, recent form, interesting trivia etc. For the India-Australia match itself, I prepared about 2 and a half pages, as much as helpful.
During the game itself, I picked up this habit, especially on radio, of scoring the match on the side myself. This has two benefits - you effectively remember more of how the game has gone, plus the appointed scorer and statistician can use your notes to cross-check.
I did this even for Tests, where if a batsman really got going, the bowling figures of a few bowlers could go into 40-50 overs. Jotting everything down helps give you an instant flashback to a talking point you may wish to raise.
This approach helps immensely on television too, where you don’t always want to be too reliant on graphics to illustrate a point. Also useful as producer to virtually log every ball, as I know the best in the business have always done. Makes setting up storylines easier.
Imagine you want to highlight how X’s double century was a chancy effort, early on. If you have notes on you, you just request the director and replays to set up the 3rd ball of the 11th over, the 4th of the 17th, etc.
These are useful fundamentals for anyone to have. The trade-off is, you have to try and watch every ball of that match. Which in itself would never be a bad idea. End of thread.
