Everyone knows the importance of photos in communication, but behind that, what is the upstream work of a photographer? To answer this question, our photographer Loïc Wacziak spoke to us in a completely transparent manner! Mainly photographing the SLUC Nancy Basket, it is on this team that he decided to focus during this interview.

“Photographing a match is not about me arriving at the meeting time, standing at the edge of the pitch and off we go, no, it’s much more complex than that”

Equipment

It is essential to know your equipment inside out “I check my equipment before each match” he tells us. According to him, it is essential in this profession, in fact, depending on the lighting conditions, to have professional equipment allowing quality photos to be taken. But he insists on one point: “it’s not with great equipment that you’re going to take great photos. It really helps the photographer’s work”.

Get informed

Finding out about the teams and the players is essential to approaching a match according to our photographer “What I often do is that I find out about the news on the two teams who are going to play as well as the players and their states of form” he explains to us. It is by following the news of a sport, of the players or of a team that the match can be considered in a calm manner.

passion

Passionate about his work and basketball, Loïc makes us understand that this alloy can be felt through his photos “I unconsciously have more investment than in another sport” he tells us. Basketball being his favorite sport, he explains being able to anticipate certain actions at certain moments I think it’s really an asset to be able to take good photos.”

to pay attention

Attention, according to our photographer is the most important point, in fact, it is a job where you have to be attentive all the time in order not to miss THE moment of the match, this important moment that you need to immortalize at all costs.

curiosity, adaptation and reactivity

these three terms sum up what a good photographer must be, in fact he must :

• Be curious to obtain original photos.
• Adapt to conditions that are not always optimal in order to always offer quality photos.
• Be reactive to actions, he must not fall asleep on the sidelines !

During the Media Event, Lucas Deslangles was present to take some behind-the-scenes photos of the day. We are therefore going to put you at the heart of this event. 1 team, 11 athletes, 6 speakers, 1 day, 3 activities, 1 Media Event.

Podcasts

4 themes for 4 different podcasts with 6 speakers and 6 athletes:

For this Media Event 2023, many personalities were present. For one of his first interventions in a French media, Mike Scott, former NBA player, was able to talk about his welcome in France as a foreign athlete in the company of Zsanett Bragmayer and Camila Micijevic. You will also discover three Olympians, Tamara Horacek, Augustin Bey, Benjamin Choquert, on their way to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. We will also find out who from social media and traditional media are the number 1 in 2023 with three speakers including the first woman Roland Garros commentator, Inès Lagdiri, alongside Coline Billot in charge of communications for Nancy Handball and Matthieu Henkinet in charge of communications for Moselle TV and president of the media Let’s Go Metz. A final trio was able to debate whether you need to be a coach or trainer to win titles? A look at the new roles of a coach within a group. composed of the current assistant coach of SLUC Nancy, Maxime Zianveni accompanied by Sylvain Marchal, coach at FC Metz, with them, Jordan Rouyer coach for the Metz Triathlon club. These coaches have the distinction of having been high-level athletes. The goal was to find out if their experience as an athlete gave them an advantage in their new coaching role. Podcasts led by Patrice and not to be missed.

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Youtelus

The Youtelus, a short interview format offered by the Com1Sport team, allows you to discover a little more about the athletes present with some revelations. Between anecdotes, career records and future competitions, the athletes discuss different questions asked by three members of the Com1Sport team, Arno, Manon and Elise. Going by the theme of cooking for Tamara Horacek or tattoos for Benjamin Choquert, we were still able to ask Mike Scott the difference between the American and European style of play! Teasers will soon be available on our networks to show you the Youtelus atmosphere, Com1Sport style. How does all this come together? As soon as the athletes arrived in the filming room, our goal was to put them at ease and a few details had to be checked: setting up the lavalier microphone, adjusting the image and sound and a mission was given to athletes, having to clap at the start of each recording. Almost a missed step, the marker was missing on the big day!

Shooting 

The shooting carried out by Loïc Wacziak and supervised by Ivann allowed all the guests to take part in the lens game. Loïc made a point of putting them at ease, showing them the postures to take, using the furniture for high quality photos, adapting to each person’s personality, physique and even discipline. . A few light adjustments, setting up the guests and the shoot was ready to start. Between laughter, sincerity and outfit changes, these images highlight the very relaxed atmosphere of this Media Event day. Find the photos on the different networks of the participants of this Com1Sport event.

MAKEUP

The Tiktokeuse with 87k subscribers, Lilouakeup, was there to pamper our guests. She took the time to do their makeup to go to the Youtelus shoot and filming. The makeup point was not an obligation, but many of them took part in the game. You can discover Tamara Horacek in full preparation by Lilouakeup.