Now we're moving on to a section on filming the extras. And I'll preface this by saying that several sections back we talked about in camera editing and why it was important. We talked about not rolling on things like cheerleaders and the band and downtime between plays. You might be saying to yourself, well, what's the difference here? Well, things like penalties, which we're going to talk about in this video, and things like the scoreboard and the down markers coming up are things that communicate information about the game, and therefore, they are important to film. Let's start here with penalties and take a really good example.

Let's say a team is at their own 40 yard line, as you see here, and they hit a big run that takes them all the way to the goal line on the other side of the field, but there's a penalty which brings them back near the spot of the foul. If you don't film The referee, making the call somebody who's watching it might see the play end at the goal line, and then wonder why the offense is starting the next play at the 30 yard line. It won't make any sense you must communicate the penalty call. So couple of factors and how we're going to handle this. The first one is to pay attention. Just like when we talked about punts, and we said pay attention to when it's fourth down, we want to pay attention to when there is a penalty, you should be able to see the yellow flag get thrown on the field.

Sometimes you'll get lucky if there's an announcer at the game, he may make a call and say, pass the complete flag on the plane. But either way, pay attention to when there's a penalty, then we're always going to look for the referee in the white hat, he's the one that makes the call. Now he may be ready to make it immediately. So you're gonna have to eyeball this move your head away from the camera and find where he is and then go get him with the camera, but we're not going to roll on him until he's ready to make the call. And we're going to know these ready to make the call. When he raises his hand in the air.

We're going to film him making the call three or four seconds we're going to cut if he has a conference with his partners beforehand, the other referees we do not want to film that we never film The conference. Between the referees we only filmed the call the conference with the other referees would be dead time that we would fast forward through. So as far as in camera editing goes, we're not going to shoot that. Now let's say that there's a penalty before the ball is height. Let's say a team jumps off side. What we don't want to do is cut immediately.

This is a great opportunity to do some really nice in camera editing and have things be smooth. So let's take a look at that. Here's a play where the team jumps offsides right away, we all know it's a penalty, and you can see what the cameras doing. He's immediately going behind the quarterback. That's where the referee with the white hat is. He's going to make the call and that's really all you need to film.

So now you have a shot that's all inclusive in one shot, you have pre snap of a penalty and you move over and film The referee and then that play ends. So that's really the best way to handle penalties that happened before the snap, move the camera over and pick up the rep right away. What about what happens if you miss the reference? Recall if a play is complete and you turn the camera off, you don't realize there's a penalty flag and you missed the referees call, what can you do? Well, you have to somehow visually communicate to the audience that there was a penalty, I would suggest looking to see if the flag is still on the ground. If so you can get a really nice tight close up of it.

If that doesn't work, the referee will pick up the ball and usually March the team back the 10 yards for the penalty, you can film The referee and some of the players around him walking backwards 10 yards that would communicate that there was a penalty. Another way to handle it would be to film the down markers. And we're going to talk about this in the next section. But the down marker will tell us that the play has not changed. For example, if it was first down and there was a penalty, it normally would be second down. But if you show us that it's still first down, that will communicate that there must have been a penalty.

So there's a variety of ways to handle it. But again, you want to try to pay attention to what's going on so that you don't miss the place and don't have to find a creative way to communicate it. That's really it for penalties, we can quickly recap the four major points. Number one is to pay attention for a penalty flag and no one there's one coming that you can film the call. Number two, find the referee with the white hat. Number three role just before he makes the call, don't film the referees conference.

And number four on a penalty that takes place before the snap, don't cut just pan directly to the ref to make the call. Now if the ref is delayed and making the call if you pan over and he doesn't make the call right away, you might consider cutting but you don't want to cut and then realize five seconds later that you have to roll so this is a situation where you may just want to keep it rolling till he makes the call. Use the referees body language to see if you think he's going to start the call and he second. So filming referees is important make sure you include it in the game because it gives the audience information and let's move on now to the next video.