How to create sports docs with Six Time Emmy Winning Producer for ESPN and FOX - Yaron Deskalo
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Yaron Deskalo spent over a decade at ESPN and Fox, winning six Emmys for his work as a feature producer and showrunner. He founded SoHi Media in April 2017. In the two years since its origin, SoHi Media has completed projects for some of the biggest content providers in the world, including Fox Sports, ABC, ESPN, NBC, the Golf Channel, and Wondery.
SHOWNOTES
00:00 - Intro
04:34 - Discussing the production of a Sports Wars Wondery Podcast episode using Tyson Vs Holyfield as an example
13:50 - ESPN Classic Internship
14:45 - Yaron starts producing for e:60 flies to Spain for first story
15:28 - Jairo Miguel bull fighting story for e:60
18:40 - Liberia amputee soccer team feature story
22:32 - Yaron visits Ugueth Urbina, Ex-Pitcher World Series Pitcher in Venezuelan Prison
27:34 - Establishing a crew to get a rare story and shot
30:40 - Serbian basketball player, Miladin Kovacevic, fled the country, Yaron has to find him for a feature
33:45 - Why pursue quality journalistic sports content?
35:21 - fox sports boxing show “face to face” story outline, sports media push you to root for someone
37:13 - Keep People invested in your story
38:19 - Jerry Jones Letters to families who have lost loved ones feature
39:12 - How do you chose your stories?
45:14 - Making of an eSports Documentary for ESPN Apex Legends @ The X Games
48:32 - You want the teams that you are following and filming in a tournament to do well
49:40 - How do you trust and build a great production team?
51:03 - If your heart is not in the project then the team won't be
53:05 - knowing what it really means to ask an editor to remove 10 seconds of an edit from the middle of a piece
56:57 - Advice on how to get a job producing for sports media
01:04:12 - best investment you've had in the last year
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