What a week for the USC Gamecocks! A win for the football team against Ole Miss. A win for the women's
soccer team against Vanderbilt, and a sweep for the
volleyball team against Mississippi State. Joe Schmitt, co-owner of At Will Productions was there to cover all the action.
After the victory against Ole Miss, Schmitt stuck around in Columbia to run a hand-held camera for the soccer match. Thank goodness there weren't any problems with the production truck because the generator had a series of unfortunate events and arrived about three hours before kick off. Of course, a plan "B" was implemented and another generator was called in. Naturally, both genny's showed up within five minutes of each other. Only in the land of remote broadcasting! Oh yeah, don't forget that the uplink truck had to be towed on-site. Interesting evening, but the show went on, and the strike was finished juuuusst before the rain really poured down. Friends that worked the Clemson game didn't share the luck with the weather and got wet.
On to volleyball, the Sunday show. What a relief! The mobile unit had power tied in to the building (no generator) and the set-up went really fast. Almost too fast. After the last couple of days that were pretty tough, several crew members were wondering what would go wrong next. The broadcast gods were smiling on the crew and the USC volleyball team. The lady Gamecocks swept Miss State with an overwhelming victory. Fox covered the match with two hand-held cameras, a hard camera for game, and Schmitt operated a hard camera in a slash position. Schmitt will also be working the next televised volleyball match in October for ESPN.
