The VAR will work well if necessary throughout the match between PSG and Lens. Even deprived of certain images of the operator, the company Hawk-Eye, provider of the LFP for the VAR, assured its client that it could officiate on the basis of its own images.
The fears were real because of the walkout at AMP Visual TV, a television filming provider, which is affecting broadcasts this weekend. This was the case for Racing 92 – Bordeaux-Bègles in the Top 14, as well as for Rennes – Reims in Ligue 1 this Saturday afternoon. A quarter of an hour of wide shots which will inevitably interfere with the televised spectacle of the shock of the 31st day at the Parc des Princes (9 p.m.).
The walkout is supposed to last one hour, from 45 minutes before the games until 15 minutes after kick-off. Thus, the first 15 minutes of the matches broadcast by Canal + are likely to be limited to a wide and fixed shot, using images from cameras placed high up in the stadiums.
It will therefore not be necessary to wait for the traditional close-ups at the entrance of the players, nor the cutaways or the slow motions of the first actions of the game. Pre-match TV sets may also be affected.
“It is likely to be quite massive this weekend, specifies the deputy general secretary of the union. Each film crew will decide before each match whether to go on strike or not. “But in all likelihood, the PSG – Lens meeting will be impacted. AMP Visual TV is a service provider for Canal + but also for Prime Vidéo and BeIN Sports.
The CGT unions have called “all the professionals, assistants, cameramen and cameramen, machinery managers”, or even the “sound engineers, the LSM OPs, who manage slow motion, the OPV , who take care of the lights “to mobilize “to defend the increase in their salaries, whether on the sets or in the stadiums”.
AMP Visual TV employees were not satisfied with their discussions with company management. “We are asking for a requalification for certain positions, some are hired as assistants, where they should be hired as technicians in view of the work provided, insists the CGT manager. This lowers their pay. In addition, there has been no increase for intermittent workers since the last strike in 2008.”