“As much as I love great tight shots, and we’ll find those emotion shots, but I think there’s gonna be a lot more resetting grander shots, sweeping motions, things that give us place and proximity of where this event is taking place.”Īll that said, Fox knows there’s a game to cover. To me, it’s using those things in a way that is a little more cinematic than standard game coverage. “More super slow-mo, more big lens, higher-speed camera. “It is an interesting balance because everything we do as we move forward in sports television is advancing technology,” Gangl said. But the network still will use the technology baseball viewers have become accustomed to. Fox also altered its graphics, which will have the appearance of an old-time scoreboard. A crew will swap out the sign manually every inning. Boyd said Fox told MLB that it wanted hard advertising signage behind home plate as opposed to virtual or rotating signage. That includes keeping the aesthetics of the era. “I’m thinking, What kind of shots could I use that take us the same paths that they did when goes over and looks out the window to see the first time Ray Liotta, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson, is on the field,” Gangl said. The last time he was on site, Gangl visited the house where Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin Costner) lived. Gangl said he lost count of how many times he has watched “Field of Dreams,” trying to devise ways to incorporate the movie into the broadcast. Both Boyd and Gangl used the word “cinematic” to describe their plan for the broadcast. With only 8,000 seats available, the game is truly a made-for-TV event. And because of the bare-bones stadium and remote location, Gangl said Fox will run thousands of feet of cables. The production crew will include just short of 30 manned cameras, a lot for a regular-season game. Gangl said the broadcast was budgeted roughly to that of a division-series playoff game. “So you get some things as simple as how do we get a broadcast signal out of there. Everything’s being built,” said Judy Boyd, senior vice president of Fox Sports productions. “There’s no obvious stadium infrastructure there. Just as the stadium was built from scratch, the broadcast will be, too. Not just a baseball field, but a full-on TV production.

“This game is not only gonna draw baseball fans, but fans of the movie and people who are just intrigued to see how they put a baseball field in the middle of a cornfield,” Gangl said. Fox will broadcast the game, and Gangl will direct.

“Shoeless” Joe Jackson and other players from the 1919 Sox were featured in the movie. The fields Gangl referred to are the movie site, now a tourist attraction, and the nearby pop-up stadium that will host the “Field of Dreams” Game on Thursday between the White Sox and Yankees. White Sox, Yankees reveal Field of Dreams uniforms White Sox manager Tony La Russa to miss Field of Dreams game

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