The camera finally catches up

A broadcast director on why equestrian sport has been filmed badly for thirty years, and what fixes it.

"You are filming a ninety-second story with a beginning, a crisis and an end, and for decades we shot it like a security camera," he says.

Low angles, tighter lenses, and real-time scoring on screen turn an incomprehensible round into a readable narrative for a first-time viewer.

The audience was never missing. The coverage was.