Purdue University’s Hall of Music Productions has deployed ChyronHego’s Paint telestration tool in its sports-production workflows to add on-screen graphics to replays when covering Purdue football and basketball games. Shown on video boards inside the football stadium and basketball arena, the “illustrated replays” provide a broadcast-like experience for fans in attendance. Hall of Music Productions not only serves as the in-house production company for Purdue University’s performing arts venues, but also provides production services to other clients on and off campus–in this case, the university’s athletic department.
“The challenge we are facing now is how to bring fans into the stadium while providing the same experiences they can get watching the game at home on television. Broadcasters have long used on-screen illustrations and graphics during replays to demonstrate an idea or make a point about the action for the people who are watching on TV. Paint provides us the means to show fans in the stands the same type of replays on our in-house video screens that they can see in their living rooms,” said Scott Horton, creative director and game day video director at Hall of Music Productions. “Paint is more than just a telestration tool; it’s a high-quality analysis tool that does a great job of indicating the significance of a play. Given its power and features, you would think Paint would be a complex tool, but it’s easy to use — our team learned it in a day. It was also surprisingly affordable. What’s more, because we can use Paint to insert sponsor logos, it opens up new revenue opportunities.”
Starting last fall with the 2014 football season, Hall of Music Productions began using Paint in a common control room that serves both the Ross-Ade Stadium (for football) and Mackey Arena (for basketball). Paint lets anyone on the production team, whether in front of or behind the camera, visually analyze game-play by adding graphics and highlighting video using Paint’s variety of feature-rich telestration tools. The resulting combination of replay, graphics, and analysis is what ChyronHego calls “illustrated replay,” displayed on in-house video boards to enhance the experience for people in the stands. For example, a commentator might draw a virtual line to show the trajectory of a pass in football or the height of a jump shot in basketball, or add a graphic to indicate the distance to the next first down.
With Paint, Hall of Music Productions also has the potential to generate more ad revenue. For example, the production team could show second or even third replays of the same play, using Paint to show different camera angles and key a different virtual logo each time in order to monetize each of the replays. With Paint’s many telestration tools, users can also manipulate the logos in different ways, such as making them static or animated, or adjusting the opacity to make them more or less transparent.
Paint has a wide selection of graphics highlighting tools, a built-in chroma keyer, and an integrated camera-tracking capability that enables production teams to create compelling content simply and swiftly. Within a game, Hall of Music Productions can create dozens of live telestrated clips or store them at the ready for near-live replays or postgame analysis.
“Through Hall of Music Productions, Purdue University is the first NCAA Division I school to integrate Paint into its sports productions,” said Johan Apel, president and CEO, ChyronHego. “We’re pleased to be able to help Purdue and its production team not only create a better experience for fans but potentially generate more revenue as well. This deployment at Purdue is a great example of Paint’s potential to boost production values within college sports venues themselves.”
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More