Behind the Scenes at Pars TV

Groovydave heads up the team that brings you all the highlights from Dunfermline Athletic matches this season.

ParsTV crew David, Lee and Dave

The video highlights that now appear on the Club`s official website is the combined effort of a team of devoted fans.

Cameraman is Lee McBain and Dave "Groovydave" Lemon records the commentary on to a laptop and adds that to the video recordings afterwards. Editing can take up to six hours. David Henderson is the match commentator for home games, Gordon "Socks" MacKenzie and Ian Mackie for away games. David explained how he got involved as commentator:-

"I have been commentating here for the last five years for the blind and partially sighted. That was funded by the Royal Society for the Blind, they brought equipment in at that time for all the Premier teams."

David had a regular user, Stuart Laidlaw a season ticket holder in the North West Stand but now the Team Leader in democratic committee work at Fife Council has a much bigger audience:-

"I was doing that anyway and when the boys started doing the video highlights and they were looking for a commentator, they heard I was doing it and so I got roped in."

Lee McBain became the camera man as a result of being a student of multimedia technology. "One day I was doing a web page for Roger Arnott, the Youth Community Coach. Jim Leishman was going to be the guest speaker and he asked me if I wanted to film the games."

Lee started filming the games in the last few weeks of the Pars SPL life and continued all last season. Now with the means having been resolved to put the video highlights on www.dafc.co.uk he finds his work now has an audience worldwide.

In case you are expecting too much, the top picture was not ParsTV!

The TV Gantry at East End Park gives ideal filming point

The gantry is sited in the North Stand

This is how MUTV fitted out the set for game on 8th August 2007

MUTV had two cameras on the Gantry, ParsTV uses a camcorder

The Pars TV crew have a slightly smaller vehicle