Abstract
Professional production of live TV combines real‐time and recorded video into a single broadcast stream. In “live” TV, non‐live “instant replay” footage can help viewers to make sense of what has just happened. This article shows how multi‐person TV production teams assemble timely and relevant instant replays that can be seamlessly combined with real‐time footage during live broadcasts. Detailed interaction analysis demonstrates how this work is dependent on coordinated practices, and how team members achieve this by orienting to narrative concerns across multiple temporalities to produce topically useful instant replays, displaying clip relevance, and help segueing transitions between the ongoing action and replay. We conclude by examining the interrelationships between the sequential flow of visual content, the role of talk in mediating time‐shifted visual alignments, and how members make their work visible and accountable to one another and to their intended audience.
Highlights
Live multicamera broadcasts show a rich picture of activity from different angles to create variations in tempo and emotional atmosphere that enliven the visual imagery and provide an enthralling televisual experience
Even well-produced multicamera productions cannot visually explain what is happening in the light of what has already happened, and instant replay—the selection anduse of just-recorded video material during the live broadcast—is often used to achieve this, drawing from camera angles that may not have been shown in the live broadcast
The workplace studies program pursued in this research is informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and it explores the constitutive practices of professional activities (Garfinkel 1986; Heath, Knoblauch, and Luff 2000; Luff, Hindmarsh, and Heath 2000)
Summary
Professional production of live TV combines real-time and recorded video into a single broadcast stream. In “live” TV, non-live “instant replay” footage can help viewers to make sense of what has just happened. This article shows how multi-person TV production teams assemble timely and relevant instant replays that can be seamlessly combined with real-time footage during live broadcasts. Detailed interaction analysis demonstrates how this work is dependent on coordinated practices, and how team members achieve this by orienting to narrative concerns across multiple temporalities to produce topically useful instant replays, displaying clip relevance, and help segueing transitions between the ongoing action and replay. We conclude by examining the interrelationships between the sequential flow of visual content, the role of talk in mediating time-shifted visual alignments, and how members make their work visible and accountable to one another and to their intended audience.
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