I read in the New York Times today that the MLB has a department solely based around (get it?) logging every part of televised baseball. The group "tags" every pitch, hit catch, and much more. They log every event by date, game, player, etc. in order to categorize everything in clean groups. For instance, if you wanted to look up Alex Rodriguez foul balls, every one will pop up. Not only do they get the game, but everything around it as well. If a squirrel were to be in the shot, they would tag that play with "animal."
The job these people are doing is very similar to what we do. Every play we shoot has a down, distance, hash, formation, etc. They do this in order to categorize the game efficiently.
Knowing that MLB has began to trace (literally) everything that goes on, it is only a matter of time before it reaches other sports. This might eventually lead to things like the NFL recording every play and detail on a televised game, including the crowd cheering (which might be tagged as "drunk fans" "crazy fans") and other b-roll.
If this becomes a bigger department in video, I think I got my foot in the door pretty early!
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