NRL 2020
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That's a try out of nothing because they looked clueless building up to that.
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@antipodean said in NRL 2020:
That's a try out of nothing because they looked clueless building up to that.
And another. Thanks for coming C Boys
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Took the risk and turned it on the big screen. Saw the NQ score straight away to take them to 26 points. Swore, but then watched them miss a sitter of a conversion, so decided to watch it. Some observations
- Commentators said you'd either have to brilliant or utterly stupid to have tipped this result
- NQ needed to get 12 points in the last 5 mins ... commentators seemed to speak like that was a 50/50
- Cardboard cut outs... nah, not for me. Rather some flags or something
- Crowd noise. That works so well. Quite blown away! Although tough to tell whose at home. But the innovation really is fantastic. Probably more noise than will hear at Eden Park this weekend!
- Nothing above relevant really. Live sport is back!!!!
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@MajorRage with the crowd noise and cutouts (also not a fan) I reckon we get more on field footage - which is a good thing. The crowd soundtrack works a treat, haven't actually tried to work out if they up the volume or balance when the game is moving quicker or at try time etc. That'd be pretty cool.
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@Paekakboyz said in NRL 2020:
@MajorRage with the crowd noise and cutouts (also not a fan) I reckon we get more on field footage - which is a good thing. The crowd soundtrack works a treat, haven't actually tried to work out if they up the volume or balance when the game is moving quicker or at try time etc. That'd be pretty cool.
It feels like they adjust the noise to fit the situation, must have a pretty cool soundboard
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The Herald can reveal the incredible level of production detail put into the faux noise, which was kept under wraps by both broadcasters until the opening kickoff of Parramatta's 34-6 win.
While FoxSports produced the crowd sounds in-house, Nine outsourced production of the audio heard around the country to a company run by three sound engineers, who initially pitched a program that would allow fans to send in personalised jeers and cheers as part of the broadcast.
But Nine opted for broader approach, which used a combination of sophisticated software and an audio operator to implement real sound effects from specific stadiums.
That means the noise punters heard on Thursday when Maika Sivo scored a sensational try was plucked from the reaction heard in games by crowds at Suncorp Stadium last year.
"(On Friday) there will be crowd effects from Bankwest [when the Roosters face the Rabbitohs] and on Sunday, it’ll be Campbelltown," Nine's NRL head Simon Fordham said.
"They’ve written a program where all the sounds go into a synthesiser and they have created a non-repetitive loop or a buzz track at a base level, which is what you hear during general play.
"**As required there is an operator there who uses a foot pedal or a fader from an audio desk, that you would use to increase not only the volume of the crowd noise in the mix but also expand its intensity.
As it goes up, more layers and files get added. It’s not just the same noise getting louder. It actually - the software that has been written - enables it to increase in intensity or density."**
Nine even went to the extraordinary length of deciding how much louder the noise for a Broncos try should be than an Eels try. It will change the ratio depending on who plays who in each match.
But in case that sounds unfair to the away teams in a coronavirus-affected draw, it won't be. The fake crowd noise is not heard by players inside the stadium, only fans at home.
"We had a production meeting with the audio engineers beforehand, just to get a sense of what our philosophies were for that. In the example of last night’s match - yes, absolutely, if the Broncos are on the attack, the crowd would definitely be louder," Fordham said.
"However, we did also consider the Eels are quite a popular side generally. I wouldn’t equate it to Broncos at 70 per cent and Eels at 30 per cent. It would be more like 60-40.
But if the Broncos were playing another side that don’t have the popularity of the Eels, we can brief the operator to make sure there is disparity between the two crowd noises for each side."
Booing? Giving it to the referee? Yep, it's all possible. The audio operator has the ability to add jeers, boos or whistles if he believes the "home crowd" would have thought a forward pass had been thrown or the away side was offside.
The overall product, in Fordham's opinion, was better than the silence of round two.
"The players are out there giving 110 per cent. The commentators are reacting to what they are seeing and also delivering emotional, powerful calls. But the crowd is there just to mesh those two things together," Fordham said.
"They feed off the crowd and by adding that extra layer - as well as the other things we are doing, like fans sending in videos on social media when their team score a try which we are rolling into coverage - we feel like we are doing everything we possibly can to engage our audience on every platform we possibly can."
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@MajorRage said in NRL 2020:
Took the risk and turned it on the big screen. Saw the NQ score straight away to take them to 26 points. Swore, but then watched them miss a sitter of a conversion, so decided to watch it. Some observations
- Commentators said you'd either have to brilliant or utterly stupid to have tipped this result
- NQ needed to get 12 points in the last 5 mins ... commentators seemed to speak like that was a 50/50
- Cardboard cut outs... nah, not for me. Rather some flags or something
- Crowd noise. That works so well. Quite blown away! Although tough to tell whose at home. But the innovation really is fantastic. Probably more noise than will hear at Eden Park this weekend!
- Nothing above relevant really. Live sport is back!!!!
I liked the crowd noise the first week, hated it ever since. 😀
Seems like I’m in the minority on here.
