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I’m not sure if this is being discussed anywhere but we should be getting in touch with Amazon, Netflix, and other online based companies to offer sponsorship tarps to cover the empty seats in the ground. 

It will cover the bizarre look of the stands and will provide addition cash into the club, there is literally an entire ground that we could cover in it!

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I thought it was a Nuffy suggestion during the week but surely the tech exists to superimpose crowd and noise for the TV audience. No crowds feels so sterile. 

Seems a no brainer to put advertising tarps on empty seats like the Richmond one behind the goals. 

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11 hours ago, Cards13 said:

Seriously [censored] Amazon.

Lol just a suggestion! Lots of companies are going to be battening down the hatches for a while, only web-based delivery companies are going to be ones doing good business so feel free to propose another one to approach!

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13 minutes ago, Pates said:

Lol just a suggestion! Lots of companies are going to be battening down the hatches for a while, only web-based delivery companies are going to be ones doing good business so feel free to propose another one to approach!

Not having a go at you Pates, just a horrible entity. Sound idea though.

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4 hours ago, Pates said:

I’m not sure if this is being discussed anywhere but we should be getting in touch with Amazon, Netflix, and other online based companies to offer sponsorship tarps to cover the empty seats in the ground. 

It will cover the bizarre look of the stands and will provide addition cash into the club, there is literally an entire ground that we could cover in it!

Good idea BUT do you really think the Club would listen ?

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7 hours ago, Demonland said:

I thought it was a Nuffy suggestion during the week but surely the tech exists to superimpose crowd and noise for the TV audience. No crowds feels so sterile. 

Seems a no brainer to put advertising tarps on empty seats like the Richmond one behind the goals. 

I'd be speaking to the producers of sitcoms such as Seinfeld and Friends to superimpose cheering and laughter.

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8 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

CGI coverage of the stands has been a possibility for years. They did it at a rugby union game years ago.

It's the MCC who is against it.... they own the ground advertising rights. They had apoplexy at the time

This technology has progressed in the past few years, integrating computer game drivers. It involves large LED screens - so the players would also see the (strange) simulated crowds.

Incidentally, an Australian DP has been doing some impressive work with this technology on the Star Wars projects.

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13 hours ago, Demonland said:

I thought it was a Nuffy suggestion during the week but surely the tech exists to superimpose crowd and noise for the TV audience. No crowds feels so sterile. 

Seems a no brainer to put advertising tarps on empty seats like the Richmond one behind the goals. 

Given that we are going through an unprecedented world event, I think it's close to a miracle that we have any footy to look forward to at all.  Based on that, any complaints about how the grandstands look or what sounds you can hear are so insignificant for mine.

Further to that, a superimposed version of a crowd would look so amateurish, would cost fortune to look good, would take weeks to months to develop, and it's something that is totally not required.  The players are the ones that are seriously missing out because they aren't playing in front of a crowd.  We're not missing out on anything.

And I'll go even further with a dose of reality - we had no idea at all if the season was going ahead until THIS week.  Yes, we knew stadiums would start off empty should the opening rounds go ahead.  But the call to try and attract new sponsors (ie Netflix, Amazon, et al), what a joke.  What company is going to go and pay for sponsorship opportunities in the current climate.

 

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1 hour ago, No10 said:

This technology has progressed in the past few years, integrating computer game drivers. It involves large LED screens - so the players would also see the (strange) simulated crowds.

Incidentally, an Australian DP has been doing some impressive work with this technology on the Star Wars projects.

Might be a bit too much for mass LED screens but you could project the various cheer squads assuming you could get over all the image and privacy issues.

Perhaps just fill the stands with imaginary animals. It definitely needs something.

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Hasn’t this been done for years, maybe way back, for Port Adelaide games?
I didn’t watch much of last night but what happened when the ball went out into the empty stands?

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I work with a guy who looks after the ads on the LED screens at the G.  The superimposition of ads on the seating is going to happen.  It already happens in many sports so it seems to not be a huge leap.

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On 3/19/2020 at 9:14 PM, Pates said:

I’m not sure if this is being discussed anywhere but we should be getting in touch with Amazon, Netflix, and other online based companies to offer sponsorship tarps to cover the empty seats in the ground. 

It will cover the bizarre look of the stands and will provide addition cash into the club, there is literally an entire ground that we could cover in it!

A tarped ball collection return devise behind the Goals.

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