In-venue and creative video staffers at the professional and collegiate level have one major thing in common: the intensity and attention to detail ramps up during a live event. What goes into pregame preparation, in-game execution, and postgame breakdown? What unexpected challenges arise and what solutions are available to solve those problems? In an age of constant and instantaneous content, how are fans being entertained at all times? In this new video content series, SVG GameDay takes viewers behind the scenes to see what it’s like to perform when the lights are shining at their brightest while diving deeper into what drives the passion that goes into each and every production.
WATCH: SVG GameDay, Episode 11 – Arianna Krizek
In-venue productions in Major League Baseball have a ton of visual elements: player headshots, animations, real-time statistics, fun facts, and many others. A cohesive graphics package — one that’s informative yet aesthetically pleasing — is critical to tying all of this material together. When you throw in City Connect uniforms, theme nights, and league-wide initiatives, the job becomes a lot more difficult. Up to the challenge is Arianna Krizek, who serves as Video Graphics Coordinator for the Philadelphia Phillies. At the club’s home ballpark, Citizens Bank Park, the work is kicked up a notch to power the viral entrance of closer Jhoan Duran.
On the latest episode of SVG GameDay, Krizek discusses what goes into the process of creating a season’s worth of graphics, how the offseason and Spring Training are two points in the year that set the team up for success, the challenges that popped up when replicating Duran’s graphics package in South Philly, the excitement of playing an important role during the team’s run to the 2022 World Series, how her internship at the Wells Fargo Center was impactful at the start of her sports career, and much more.
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