Photography and Video Coverage for Media & Non-Media Utilization

Photography and Video Access at Calvin Athletics Events 

Calvin University welcomes accountable images and video that assist share the power, achievement, and neighborhood of Calvin Athletics. This web page explains when media representatives, freelance creators, influencers, college students, households, and different visitors want advance approval—and what entry they might obtain. 

Photography in Spectator Areas 

Guests could take photographs or quick private movies from public spectator areas after they comply with venue guidelines, comply with sport etiquette, don’t block sightlines or aisles, and don’t intervene with the occasion. A ticket or common admission doesn’t present entry to sidelines, staff areas, press bins, restricted facility areas, or different credentialed places. 

When credentials are required 

Advance approval is required for anybody in search of entry past public spectator areas, together with sidelines, staff areas, press bins, restricted facility areas, or different designated media places. Credentials are issued to a named particular person for a selected occasion, usually are not transferable, and don’t assure entry to each space or to future occasions. Credentials should be worn and visual always through the sporting occasion.

How requests are reviewed 

Requests are reviewed primarily based on the aim and meant use of the protection, the requester’s affiliation or project, obtainable area, occasion operations, security, institutional and media priorities, and relevant college, convention, or NCAA necessities. Approval is discretionary and could also be restricted or denied when operational wants or venue capability require it. 

Content necessities 

Credentialed media could use images and video from Calvin Athletics occasions just for information reporting or editorial protection related to their accepted project.  

Other accepted photographers and videographers should present Calvin Athletics with entry to their revealed gallery hyperlink or footage inside 5 days after the occasion concludes. 

Photographs and movies from Calvin Athletics occasions might not be offered, licensed, used to market providers, or used for an additional industrial objective with out prior written approval from Calvin University Athletics. 

Request entry no less than 72 hours earlier than the occasion by emailing Jeff Febus at jeffrey.febus@calvin.edu