Live From the NFL Draft: NFL Digital Media Efforts Include Draft Tonight Live Stream, Onsite Podcasts The offerings are produced via both onsite and at-home workflows By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor
Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 12:44 pm
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NFL Network isn't the only arm of NFL Media that's bigger than ever at the Draft this year. The NFL Digital Media team has also been out in full force in Nashville, live-streaming a Draft Tonight post-show on NFL.com, producing podcasts onsite, and creating VOD content for the league's digital properties and social-media channels.
Taylor Lewan (left) and Kay Adams host Draft Tonight live on NFL.com.
NFL Network does a phenomenal job on the linear side, but our goal is to connect with fans in a different way and pull back the curtain to show who these players are as much we can, said NFL Media Head of Digital Production Matt Schnider before the start of the Draft on Thursday. The goal for NFL Media is to be everywhere and anywhere that fans can consume content. We are just providing another lens for them to engage with the NFL.
The After Party: NFL.com's Draft Tonight Is Live After NFL Network Coverage
On Thursday, Draft Tonight streamed live on NFL.com immediately following the conclusion of NFL Network's coverage of the first round. Host of NFL Network's Good Morning Football Kay Adams and Tennessee Titans Pro Bowl offensive tackle Taylor Lewan interviewed top draftees from a dedicated 20- x 20-sq.-ft. set in the carwash area behind the Main Stage.
On the Draft Tonight set, (from left) NFL Media's Catherine Chan Smith, Matt Schnider, and Amanda Carey
We have a pretty robust plan as far as our digital programming is concerned, said Schnider. We needed this kind of space to pull off our goals. Our goal is to bring a lighter tone to the Draft. We're not here to break down X's and O's but instead [to] welcome these players to the league. It's likely the best day of their lives, so we're here give them a chance to let their hair down and feel in the moment.
The Draft Tonight set was covered by a single Steadicam to add movement and create a more intimate feel. Adams and Lewan also had a touchscreen monitor at their disposal, which they used to incorporate social-media elements directly into the show.
NFL Media's Draft Tonight live stream and various podcast productions of the Draft in Nashville are produced out of control rooms at its HQ in Culver City, CA.
We have a social-media mosaic on the touchscreen, which features real-time sentiments from influencers, from teammates, and from fans all over the country and the world, said Schnider. For the first time on our set, these players will be able to see what the world is feeling towards the future heroes of our game.
Thursday's Draft Tonight episode was an at-home production that used a control room at NFL Media's Culver City, CA, headquarters. A line producer there integrated the live show and had full comms with Adams and Lewan. Schnider; NFL Director, Social Integration, Catherine Chan Smith; and NFL Social Integration Producer Amanda Carey were producing from the Draft Tonight set in Nashville.
The Friday and Saturday editions of Draft Tonight have shifted back to Culver City and feature Matt Money Smith and analysts Bucky Brooks, Maurice Jones-Drew, and Lance Zierlein for Rounds 2-7.
Beyond Live: Podcasts, VOD, Social Content Coming Out of Music City
NFL Media also produced special NFL Draft editions of several of its podcasts onsite in Nashville, including the Move the Sticks podcast with Daniel Jeremiah and Brooks and The Dave Dameshek Football Program.
The Dave Dameshek Football Program featuring Stanford head coach David Shaw
The Move the Sticks podcast on Monday was produced with Jeremiah onsite in Nashville and co-host Brooks in Culver City, using the Azzurro TeamCam system to transmit a live feed of Jeremiah to Culver City and a return feed of Brooks. The show was produced out of Control Room G, the NFL's podcast studio, in Culver City and was also cut up for VOD clips to be distributed on various social platforms and the NFL's digital properties.
Daniel Jeremiah tapes the Move the Sticks podcast from the NFL Media theater stage at the NFL Draft in Nashville.
Additionally, Dave Dameshek has been live on location in Nashville all week, interviewing NFL Media analysts and top draftees once they're selected. These interviews are shot with two DSLR cameras and a Zoom audio recorder and fed into an Atomos Shogun monitor/recorder, which combines the audio and video into a single feed. This is then transmitted to Culver City via the TeamCam system and delivered as an audio podcast and VOD clips. The addition of the Atomos Shogun is new this year to NFL Digital Media, which first used it at the NFL Owners Meetings in Phoenix last month.
NFL Digital Media is using the Azzurro TeamCam system feed content to Atomos Shogun recorder/monitors in Culver City and marry the video and audio from interviews.
Previously, we would have the video from the DSLR and audio from Zoom [recorder] on SD cards, says NFL Media Associate Producer Eddie Murphy. We would have to send them separately over to our editors [in Culver City] so they could marry them together. That was very time-consuming. The Shogun Atomos [recorders] are HDMI-compatible, so we can feed audio and video at once, and it marries them together. Then we can pop it right into the TeamCam to send back to Culver. Our editors can pull it right into their Adobe Premiere Pro [NLE software] and start editing it immediately. That makes our process a lot quicker.
NFL Digital Media Coordinating Producer Mark Brady adds, Each show that we do, we're finding new [workflows]. We're still putting out the same great cont
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Live From the NFL Draft: NFL Digital Media Efforts Include Draft Tonight Live Stream, Onsite Podcasts The offerings are produced via both onsite and at-home workflows By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor 
