Not sure if cinematography is the right word but for want of a better one it'll work.
Been musing over how the various motor sports need to improve their visual coverage of their events - and what an incredible opportunity they have if they do it.
Motor sports could have so much visual appeal - the vehicles, the battles, the handling etc., and yet, tragically, they're often one of the worst present sports. Generally the events are presented as a sort of live highlight reel cutting from corner to straight, to see a bike or car fly by, or you might see an aerial shot or zoom. I can understand that in the past the technology to do much else wasn't around, however, these days there are tons of ways to take the coverage of motor sports to a new level and increase their appeal and market.
How many movies and games about motor vehicles find so much appeal purely out of the visuals? Yet the visuals are often so boring for the real thing.
For me WRC is the most appealing, both in concept and in visuals. The skill on display is incredible and the highlights are stunning. I defy anyone to sit through a WRC event highlight reel and not be impressed. Yet those events end up as either repeated visuals of a single corner or stretch of road, or else just highlights. There's no continuity, no flow - or at least, what there is is broken up.
Surely these organisations would find a genuine incentive here to investigate and invest into better filming of their events?
Find ways to show whole stretches of runs instead of just bits and pieces, or even runs in their entirety. Or for races they could follow a battle with more continuity, for longer, or follow one car around the track.
There are obvious obstacles to doing this, of course, and it's not east. Surely though, this is the clear evolutionary direction of the sport? There's even potential to sell after race access (or even live access) to single cars or teams or to be watched in their entirety - multiple available streams.
Motorsports are something I tried several times to follow more closely but the format often detracts from my enjoyment of it or makes it difficult to focus in on one particular team or driver etc.
Does anyone know if the world of motorsports is looking into this?