For the 2017 season, the Italian chain Sky Sports offers an alternative distribution of GP images in mosaic form. Subscribers will therefore be able this year to choose between the classic broadcast where the image of the race occupies the entire screen, and a new version where the main image is smaller, but surrounded by the vision of other cameras which is often interesting. .
This system is based on the one that Dorna offers to its customers in its offer Videopass. To understand how this works, the easiest way is to base yourself on this proposition illustrated below. Here the example concerns the 4 screen version, but there are several other options available. At the top in large figure is the image of the classic broadcast, during the last Qatar Grand Prix. Below left is the view from the helicopter. The other two screens concern on-board cameras on the motorcycles of two pilots, who are chosen by the viewer via their remote control.
It is on this version that the illustration below is based, presented during the Sky Sport press conference this Tuesday. The helicopter camera view is often very interesting, because it is always focused on the leaders. When the director decides, for example, to show something else (a fight for eighth place, a driver in the pits, the replay of a crash, etc.), the helicopter view allows you to always follow the fight for first position live . This view from above also offers another vision in the event of a collision, when images filmed at ground level are sometimes misleading. We thus see that the author of an incident is not always the one who seems obvious at the beginning. The aerial view also allows us to appreciate the trajectories.
The interesting thing about on-board cameras is that you can follow the action from your favorite rider's motorcycle. It is possible to change your choice during the race. In addition, Sky also offers, as seen below, another type of mosaic where statistics on the drivers, the circuit and the records appear.
Illustrations Dorna Videopass and Sky Sport
