Yow Shares Inspiration with Raleigh Crew

NC State Head Women's Coach Kay Yow shared her story of being a cancer survivor with Go To Team's Raleigh crew. Yow spoke about the ESPY award she received which is named after the late Jim Valvano for her perseverance in being able to continue to coach while battling cancer. Coach Yow is one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history..."it was a real treat being in her presence, one thing she said that really stuck with me was "if life kicks you, make sure it kicks you forward." Go To Team cameraman Jimmy Hall felt priviledged to be apart of such a great piece.

Raleigh Crew Attempts Arabesque!

Go To Team's camera op Jimmy Hall hit the road for a couple of days for a shoot in South Carolina with E! True Hollywood Story. The piece is a behind the curtain look at competitive cheerleading. Sadly for the crew, the story focused more on injuries and local scandal than getting to shoot the pyramid or some other aerial technique.

Look for the piece to air on E! sometime in May.

On the Tobacco Road

Go To Team's Raleigh camera op Jimmy Hall and crew were in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) and Winston Salem working on a piece about the history of Tobacco Road for ABC Sports. The piece focuses on how these cross town rivals began and have become the most fiercest rivalry in basketball history.

It was an awesome week for basketball starting with the NC State vs. Wake Forest then Duke vs. UNC and to end it with Duke vs. Boston College at Cameron..."our main goal was not to cover the action on the court but the flavor of the competition, fans, coaches, pre-game rituals, and school tradition."

Clark Crew Shoots Superbowl, Makes us Laugh

Skip Clark and John South just wrapped a big week shooting behind the scenes at the Superbowl. Shooting alot of the pre-production for the Fox Sports Pre-game show and other taped pieces for the big game.

They were all over the place... "in everybody's faces", as evidenced by this photo from USA Today of Skip on the field with Eli Manning. They also shot with Michael Strahan on media day. Strahan doing some shooting of his own, made fun of the camera crew as he followed them.
The clip from Fox Sports' Pre-game Show is up on our You Tube site.

Modern Marvels hires GTT

Go To Team's DP Tom Wells and Nick Modisett were back on the road this week in southern Georgia shooting a segment on trains for History Channel's Modern Marvels. The location was a trainyard used for servicing and repairing locomotives. 100 ton cranes, 30 ton diesel engines, hard hats and steel toe boots all played a part in the production. You can see from the pictures that the latest Parisian fashions were NOT part of the shoot, however. Nick especially fell victim to the fashion trends that day, sporting a hybrid outfit apparently inspired by the village people. Tom donned a similar outfit but was somehow able to avoid being photographed all day, or perhaps he just deleted the pictures - we'll never know. All the fashion faux pas were overridden, however, with the fact that the segment was shot in HD on the Panasonic Varicam.