FAO the Media Team

[Dai83]

Originally Posted by oswestryred

Have to say I'm not a fan of the music at the start of them

I know it's pretty meaningless on a grand scale, but yeah, the music is shite.

[jarko]

Yes the music is Dire but its the interviews themselves the audio is atrocious , its very hard listening.

[ActonRed]

Had it on level 81 to hear PP, forgot to turn it back down afterwards…..OUCH!

[Cenotaff]

As mentioned, the music is at a ridiculous level to the interview or match footage. Do they not play them back to themselves before uploading? I'm a noob to making music but am happy enough to mix the audio if needs be. That's simply just a volume automation issue.

That said, when I do get into the interviews, on my cheapy speakers, you can't hear the question being asked at all and then the answer is really low too.

I'm not sure if it's a panning issue or what. Surely can't be frequency as a voice isn't going to be in the sub region that my speakers don't pick up.

[ActonRed]

Depends on the quality of the source input. The gain should be set properly for both inputs, to give good levels, that is just below clipping and not close to the noise floor, otherwise turning the volume up will be full of noise instead of a clean signal. I would be shocked if they played it back and still published ��

[RadioRed]

Originally Posted by Omni

Or just bin the music off completely. It's the most tedious dirge imaginable

Absolutely, we deserve much better.

[simon4012]

Could do with a couple of directors to give them some tips.....hang on

[Huffy]

Originally Posted by Kiddy Dragon

I didnt want to say this at the risk of being negative but its akin to the start of a funeral.
The presentations of interviews are generally poor as they lack any planning of suitable location. Often interupted by noise and/or passing strangers or both.
I expect this will very much improve now we will be paying for them!

Too right !!
I would like someone who thinks that its anything other than annoying dirgey
to pipe up ,because as someone else said , its shyte !!
The intro they used before was good I thought

[northwalian dragon]

Originally Posted by NewportRoadEnd

probs a bit of inexperience I guess

That's the annoying thing, the media team has been doing it for like 8 years now. Inexperience is fine, not having the skillsets is also a pass on some things, but not having any desire to improve anything is what is really annoying. Even after a short while, you'd look at the clubs graphic design, photography, videography, audio etc. and think na that's quite poor really and want to improve it little by little. A lot of the fixes are 2-minute jobs that are only a google search away from improving.

It's wound me up for years. It was synonymous with the WST and how tinpot the club became. Broadcasting from Mark Griffiths spare room, those Microsoft paint cut out images of the media team we used to have before the highlights, graphic design lazily stuck with a strong black overlay over the images with some terrible typography slapped across it, single undiffused lighting making the "studio" photography the flattest, most lifeless photos (not to mention the lighting setup used only being suitable for white-skinned players)

Everyone I've spoken to that looks at our branding thinks it's shite. I'm amazed there's been no one hired to oversee it all because it was no where near good enough for who we were as a club under the WST so it's certainly not good enough for the global attention we're getting now