I have always wondered if it would be possible and practical for a professional pool player to make an instructional video of playing pool with a camera on top of his head. Don't laugh. I'm serious. Seeing the table layout from the player's perspective is critical. The people in a booth making commentary about a match is nice but how much nicer seeing the match played from the player's view (all of the time).
Earl Strickland is the only one who comes to mind that I can think of who would have the moxy to try that out in a match. He seems to like trying new products to improve his game and he might be inclined to try this if in someway he thought it could help his game or help someone else's game, especially if the market says they would buy the product.
After the match, Earl could sit with an editor and Earl could explain each inning and what he was thinking because he would be seeing the match all over just as he played it. Having him telling the story as he see's the match being re-played right after the match would be priceless. There would obviously be some problems with the camera focusing on precisely what he is looking at but I would hope the technical aspects could be worked out to do this effeticely. I think they have put cameras on Luge riders or maybe Bobsleighs.
I can see Earl in my mind's eye with his colored flashing glasses, a constantly refocusing camera mounted on his head with a battery operated fan to keep him cool while under the TV cameras.
The video would be rather long because it would focus on the thoughts of the player, inning by inning. The voice-over editing would be a necessity as you couldn't expect a player to give the play by play thoughts while he is competing. Maybe you could have a microphone hooked up to the player to record any verbal communication that occurs during the match. That's been done before and is done regularly with the women's pro tour if I am not mistaken.
Anyway I was just wondering what your thoughts were about something like this.
Warm Regards,
JoeyA
Earl Strickland is the only one who comes to mind that I can think of who would have the moxy to try that out in a match. He seems to like trying new products to improve his game and he might be inclined to try this if in someway he thought it could help his game or help someone else's game, especially if the market says they would buy the product.
After the match, Earl could sit with an editor and Earl could explain each inning and what he was thinking because he would be seeing the match all over just as he played it. Having him telling the story as he see's the match being re-played right after the match would be priceless. There would obviously be some problems with the camera focusing on precisely what he is looking at but I would hope the technical aspects could be worked out to do this effeticely. I think they have put cameras on Luge riders or maybe Bobsleighs.
I can see Earl in my mind's eye with his colored flashing glasses, a constantly refocusing camera mounted on his head with a battery operated fan to keep him cool while under the TV cameras.
The video would be rather long because it would focus on the thoughts of the player, inning by inning. The voice-over editing would be a necessity as you couldn't expect a player to give the play by play thoughts while he is competing. Maybe you could have a microphone hooked up to the player to record any verbal communication that occurs during the match. That's been done before and is done regularly with the women's pro tour if I am not mistaken.
Anyway I was just wondering what your thoughts were about something like this.
Warm Regards,
JoeyA
