The Superbowl is the biggest annual sporting event in the country. (Our national past time is baseball, which has now for better or for worse been supplanted by football–not be confused with what we call soccer here in the States, which is football to the rest of the world. America!) Depending on the teams that make it to the Superbowl, that decides which city the game is played. This often isn’t known until a couple of weeks before game day, so crew availability in that city is extremely tight. Many people also opt to not work that day so they can watch the game, or will charge a higher rate.

Fashion! Trends! Trendsetters! Trendsetters in fashion! Lights, camera, fashion! We think you get the picture. There are always a lot of ancillary productions happening around Fashion Week itself including news coverage, documentaries, and reality programming–so crews are often booked weeks in advance.

The Academy Awards is the “super bowl” of our industry. (Take THAT, football!) Presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, nominated filmmakers are presented with awards (called Oscars) during a live broadcast television ceremony. The date for the ceremony changes from year to year, but is often scheduled at the end of “festival season” to top it all off. So, the ceremony usually happens sometime in February. Crew in Los Angeles is booked in advance, and ENG-style crews are used for red carpet filming for broadcast and web content.

Cars that go fast around a speedway annually in Daytona Beach, FL organized by NASCAR. That’s all you really need to know. This is a live broadcast television sporting event and crew is booked far in advance for the show itself, and ancillary content for web is captured by ENG crews.

Our Presidents sure are colorful characters, aren’t they? So, taking a day to observe these temporary fathers of our country is worth a federal holiday apparently! But in recent years, Presidents Day is increasingly referred to as Washington’s Birthday which was in February 1732. This was a smart move, considering not all of our presidents should be celebrated. (Come on — who could forget the scourge that was Herbert Hoover? Harding’s Teapot Dome Scandal? The intense public contempt for John Adams?! That unmemorable loser James Buchanan?)