Game Spotlight
$50per game
One game, start to finish, with your athlete as the focus.
- Your athlete followed for one game
- 20 to 30 edited photos
- Their own private gallery
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Your kid gets the whole camera
Book an athlete spotlight and Michael Rotiroti, a National Emmy winning cinematographer, spends the game on one player. Yours. You watch from the bleachers, and the edited photos go into a private gallery that's all theirs. Spotlights are $50 and $150.
Two packages, all about one athlete
Every spotlight puts Michael on the sideline with your athlete as the focus, and every one ends in a private gallery that's theirs. Big Night adds the before and the after.
Big Night
$150per game
Pregame through postgame. Made for senior nights, first games and Friday night lights.
- Pregame and warmups
- The whole game, focused on your athlete
- Postgame with family and teammates
- 40 to 60 edited photos
- Their own private gallery
Add video
from $35a game
Video is its own lineup. These three are made for one athlete.
- Social Reel, $35: one game cut into a 30 to 60 second vertical reel
- Mic'd Up, $50: your athlete wears a mic, and their voice is cut with the action
- College Highlight Tape, $100 a game: the full game on a broadcast setup, cut to highlights for $50
For recruits
Talking to college coaches? Send a tape.
College Highlight Tape is your recruiting tape: your best plays of the season, your number marked before each clip, and a title card with your name, position, class year and contact. It's $100 a game, shot on a broadcast video setup built for a professional result. You get the full game tape, and for $50 more it's cut down to your highlights.
PLACEHOLDER: when the College Highlight Tape is delivered
Styled shoots: portraits in uniform
Not a game. A planned portrait session with your athlete in uniform, set up ahead of time instead of caught mid play. Think senior portrait, the banner on the fence, a recruiting profile, or the one that ends up framed in the hallway.
Every styled shoot is quoted, because the where, the when and the look change from kid to kid. Tell Michael what you're picturing and he'll come back with a price.
PLACEHOLDER: what a styled shoot includes (length, locations, number of edited portraits) and a starting price, if you want one public
PLACEHOLDER: styled portrait of an athlete in uniform (no styled shoot photos yet)
Not sure which one?
Here's how they differ, in plain words.
What's the difference between Game Spotlight and Big Night?
Game Spotlight is the game. Michael follows your athlete from start to finish, and you get 20 to 30 edited photos.
Big Night adds everything around the game: pregame and warmups, the whole game, then postgame with family and teammates. You get 40 to 60 edited photos. If the moments you care about happen before the game or after it, book Big Night.
What if we want video too?
Spotlights are photos. Video is its own lineup. For one athlete there's Social Reel for $35 (one game cut into a 30 to 60 second vertical reel), Mic'd Up for $50 (your athlete wears a mic and their voice is cut with the action), Pregame + Postgame + Highlights for $150 (the whole day in one video) and College Highlight Tape for $100 a game (full game film, cut to highlights for $50). See all video
PLACEHOLDER: can a video package be booked for the same game as a photo spotlight, and is there a combined price?
Which one should we book for senior night?
Big Night. So much of senior night happens off the scoreboard: the walk with flowers, the photo with parents, the hugs at the fence after. Game Spotlight covers the game itself, not the parts around it.
If your senior wants a video to post, look at Pregame + Postgame + Highlights or a Social Reel on the video page.
Rival is already shooting our game. Do we still need a spotlight?
Not always. At a regular season game Rival shoots, every family gets the post game gallery: $2.99 a photo during the game, $5 after, up for 48 hours. You find your kid by typing their jersey number.
A spotlight is different. Your athlete is the focus the whole time, and their edited photos go into their own private gallery.
PLACEHOLDER: can a spotlight be booked at a game Rival is already covering for the post game gallery?
Where do styled shoots fit?
Styled shoots aren't game coverage. They're planned portraits of your athlete in uniform, quoted shoot by shoot. See styled shoots
You're the main character tonight
Game photos usually follow the ball. A spotlight follows you: the bench, the big play, and the second right after it when you lose it with your teammates.
The walk
Senior night. Flowers, your parents on either side, your name over the speakers. Big Night starts before the game, so the walk is in it.
The celly
The goal, the pick six, the and-one. Then whatever you do next with your teammates. That's the frame everybody screenshots.
The dap-up
The handshake line, the hug at the fence, the photo with your little brother in your jersey. Big Night stays for postgame.
The post
Your own private gallery of edited photos, full size and no watermark. Pick the one that goes on your feed.
Send this page to whoever's driving you to the game.
A few frames from Michael's sideline
Game photos Michael has shot. Tap any of them to see it full size.
Your only job is to watch the game
No phone held up through the whole fourth quarter. No zooming in from the top row and getting the back of the ref. Sit with the other parents and yell as loud as you want. Michael has the sideline.
He's a National Emmy and duPont-Columbia award-winning cinematographer and photographer whose work has run on HBO, MTV, NESN and NBC Sports Boston. You deal with him directly, from the booking to the gallery.
The one thing only you can do is tell him what matters. The booking form has a notes box for it. The senior night ceremony is before warmups. The grandparents are driving up. She switched numbers this year.
How a spotlight works
You book it. Michael takes it from there.
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Book the game
Tap a package and send the request: your athlete's name and jersey number, the sport and team, and the game date.
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Michael confirms
He gets back to you to confirm the date and the details before game day. PLACEHOLDER: how and when a spotlight is paid for, and how fast Michael replies to a request
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Game day
Michael is on the sideline with your athlete as the focus. For Big Night, he's there from pregame through postgame. You watch.
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Their private gallery
The edited photos go into your athlete's own private gallery. PLACEHOLDER: spotlight delivery time for the photos
From the bleachers
PLACEHOLDER: a real review from a parent who booked Big Night for senior night, in their words, with permission to use it
PLACEHOLDER: first name, town, sportPLACEHOLDER: a real review from a parent who booked a Game Spotlight
PLACEHOLDER: first name, town, sportPLACEHOLDER: a real review from an athlete about their spotlight photos
PLACEHOLDER: athlete first name, sport, class yearSpotlight questions
The logistics parents ask about. Anything else, ask Michael.
What if the game gets rained out or moved?
Schedules move. Let Michael know as soon as you hear, through the contact page.
PLACEHOLDER: reschedule and rainout policy for spotlights (does the booking move to the new date, and what happens if it can't)
Can two siblings share a spotlight?
Put both names and jersey numbers in your booking request and Michael will tell you what he can do.
PLACEHOLDER: sibling policy. Same game, one booking or two? Different games? Any change in price?
Can you shoot an away game?
Put the field and town in the notes box when you book. Michael confirms every spotlight before game day, so you'll know before you plan around it.
PLACEHOLDER: away game policy
How far will you travel?
Rival works the North Shore and around Greater Boston.
PLACEHOLDER: specific towns or travel radius, and any travel fee outside it
What if my kid doesn't play much?
Then Big Night is the safer pick. Warmups, pregame, and postgame with family and teammates don't depend on minutes. Tell Michael in the notes box, so he knows going in.
PLACEHOLDER: what happens to the photo count if the athlete barely gets in the game
Will Rival post my kid's photos online?
The spotlight gallery is private. If your athlete is 12 or under, nothing goes on Rival's social media or in an ad without a written OK from a parent, the team or the coach. Read the photo policy