In this final video of the section, we're going to talk about what I call bookends and more book ends, of course, are things that happen before and after the game. And the more part is a couple of things that I couldn't really find a good spot for in the body of the course, I'm going to mention them here. So we're going to throw a couple of different things at you. And then we'll be done with this section. And we'll move on to some other ways to film like sideline and end zone. But let's start with the book ends.

Book ends, again, are those things at the beginning in the end of the game. And you know, I mentioned earlier that we don't want to shoot things that we would fast forward through. So you might find that a contradiction when I say that we should always film the coin toss at the beginning of the game. All right, and I would suggest doing that unless you have a coach who hired you who said don't bother, but the coin toss might be an important thing to film and allows us to see who won the toss how they chose which side of the field to take, and so on. And the bottom line with a coin toss is because it's the very first play the very first shot on your camera. If somebody doesn't want it there, it's really easy to delete it.

They don't have to dig through the game. To find a shot of say a band that you took in the middle of the second quarter, if they want to not use your coin toss, they can simply find the first shot on your camera and delete it. Or if they're uploading to an online service like huddle or crossover, they can very easily leave the first play out and have the first shot be your kickoff. So there's no harm in filming the coin toss, it's a nice way to get into the game and to communicate information, so I would recommend filming it unless you've been told otherwise. Now at the end of the game, you can see in my picture behind me that we have a handshake and I think a handshake in the same way that the coin toss is a nice way to get into the game.

The handshake is a nice way to go out and also show sportsmanship which we all know is very important. But there's two things that you should do at the end of the game, you should definitely film the scoreboard so that we know the final score and that we can see the clock reading zero and that the game is over. And then the handshake. If you don't do either of them, there might be some confusion as to whether the game is even over. I've actually Had cameraman before who didn't do either ending shot and someone took a hand off and got tackled, and the screen went black and that was it. And you have no idea if that's the way your game ends, you have no idea that the game is actually over.

So you need to do one or two shots at the end of the game to communicate the score to show your sportsmanship and kind of wrap it up, I usually pull out from a handshake I usually start tight and wide now. And then just hold for a few seconds Fade to black. It's a good way to end the game after 40 minutes to an hour of gameplay footage. So those are your book ends. Now the more parts and the first thing we're going to talk about here is fights. Sometimes after a play, you know, this is football, it's a contact sport, people are hitting each other hard.

Sometimes players will go at it, you'll see a few shoves maybe a punch, or they'll exchange words. And what I want to say about fights is that we always film fights, and I didn't always feel this way we would cut it out. We didn't want to put violence on our tape, but there's an important really important reason And why we want to film fights. And that is because people want to review it later coaches referees want to look and see who was the instigator, there might be a punishment or a suspension in order. They're going to look to the cameraman, the first person they're going to call after the game is the cameraman asking Did you get that fight. So if you see one, you have to film it.

You have to widen out to see everybody who might be involved is there somebody throwing a punch on the outside, you want to get everybody who could be involved in the fight so you can see the whole big picture. At the end of the play. If you see people joining at each other, or potentially you feel like there might be a punch thrown, don't cut. We talked about letting a play breed and holding on it long enough. We definitely don't want to cut before a punch gets thrown because we don't want to miss it. So it's okay to hold on a shot.

If you see two players starting to talk trash to each other. I would say keep rolling because you never know what's going to happen. Again, err on the side of shooting too much. Don't err on the side of missing something. Okay, so always film fights. Finally here we're going to talk about injuries.

Football, of course is a violent game people get hurt. And when they do, sometimes it's a serious injury and there's a long delay in the game. Sometimes a player has to get taken off with a stretcher or carried off. We don't really want to film injuries to that degree. If anybody's hurt seriously, I don't roll at all. I just we see the kid on camera getting hurt.

I caught it the normal time. Next thing we see is the play. The only time I roll longer on injuries is when we see that the player is okay. Maybe if he's helped off the field, or he walks off under his own power. It's always nice to show good news as opposed to bad news. So if you see an injury, there's no reason to roll on something.

No reason to roll to the on the medical staff tending to him for a long time. I would almost ignore it. Unless it was obvious that it happened. You can hold on it for a few extra seconds. Don't treat it any differently. Maybe show the player walking off that he's really Otherwise, just move on to the next play.

So now we've gotten through everything from filming a game from up above the press box or somewhere in the bleachers. We've done running and passing, we've done special teams. And now we've done all the extras. So the remaining videos in this course are going to talk about what happens if you have other situations like when it's raining, or when you're forced to film from the sidelines or even from the end zone, how to handle those different types of views. But hopefully over these last series of videos, you now know how to set up your camera up high, elevated and centered and shoot everything you need any situation that comes up in the game so you can do it properly. So congrats on making it this far.

And I'll see you in the last couple of sections where we talk about these other situations that you might be shooting in, and then you'll have made it you'll be a professional sports videographer. See you in the next video.