Walk in as an ordinary customer, capture clear footage of the event on the venue’s screens, fill in the Site Inspection Sheet, and submit everything through the upload link in your dispatch email. Most assignments take 10–15 minutes.
Served 123 documents unlicensed commercial broadcasts for the rights holders — you observe openly, never enforce, and nothing about this is undercover.
A short example from a completed observation — the exterior shots, the entry, and zoomed-in event footage from a screen. That’s the standard your clip is held to.
Every observation follows the same sequence, from the sidewalk to your seat and back out — and comes back with at least five minutes of footage in total.
Two clear photos from outside, showing the signage or other identifying features that confirm the location — including any outside event ads.
Begin recording outside and continue naturally as you enter — one take, straight through the door, catching the screens and the watermark early. This footage counts toward your five-minute total.
Once inside, one slow, steady pan of the interior — the televisions, the seating, the bar, and patrons where visible. Move deliberately — speed blurs.
From a seat with a clear line to a screen — close enough to film it legibly — record at least one full minute of the event on the venue’s television, continuous and uncut, zoomed in until the action, the score, and the watermark are clearly legible. Corners work well; skip seats under speakers playing unrelated music.
Complete the sheet after your visit, save it as a finished PDF, and upload it together with your photo and video evidence through the upload link — within 24 hours.
Every clip must be clear, stable, and usable — and the event clip has one job: proving, beyond argument, that the event was on that screen. If it can’t be read, it can’t be used.
Until the broadcast fills the frame and the watermark is readable. A wide shot of the room proves nothing.
Horizontal, both hands, braced against the table or your chest. Keep the audio on — commentary and crowd noise help confirm the event.
Before you leave your seat. If the action, score, or watermark isn’t clearly legible, shoot it again.
The sheet attached to your dispatch email — formally, the Site Inspection Report — is a fillable PDF in eleven short steps. It’s sworn under penalty of perjury, so record only what you personally observed. Fill it in after you leave, while the visit is fresh; the numbers below match the form.
The event name and the date it aired — the broadcast you’re auditing, not the bar.
Inspection date, time in and time out, the venue’s name and full address, and the building type.
Went alone? One checkbox. If someone came along, their name and contact info.
The cover in dollars — enter 0 if there was none — plus optional descriptions of the door person and staff.
Total TV and projector count, how many showed the event, and where each of those sits in the room.
Specific to your event — the UFC version asks the round or phase, both fighters, the bout type, and the action you observed.
Whether a watermark or logo was visible on the broadcast, and whether a streaming device was in use — pick from the list or type your own.
Event ads outside and inside — yes or no, with a line describing any you saw.
Optional, and worth a sentence — bar location, flooring, wall decor, general atmosphere.
One option only: the posted capacity if you saw the FCO sign, or your best-estimate range if you couldn’t.
Signed and dated under penalty of perjury — the sheet is a sworn report, so record exactly what you observed, nothing more.
Almost every unusable observation traces back to one of these six. Run the list before you leave home.
Recording drains fast — there’s no re-shoot once you’ve left.
Clear space at home, not in the parking lot.
A smudged lens is the top reason footage comes back soft.
Dress like the room — nothing that invites attention.
Download the PDF from your dispatch email before the visit.
So the event is already up on the screens when you walk in.
None of these are common, and every one has a pre-decided response — nothing in the field is improvised.
Confirm slowly, keep filming what is showing — the five-minute total still applies — note it on the sheet, and submit. A documented no-show still counts.
You’re a customer in a business open to the public. “Just grabbing a few clips,” said casually, is a complete answer — no stories, no credentials.
Do it immediately, wrap up the visit naturally, don’t re-enter — and submit what you have. That account is itself useful.
Submit what you captured, note on the sheet where it stopped, and reply to your dispatch email.
Reply to your dispatch email as early as you can and it gets reassigned. No penalty for honest notice.
Questions, concerns, anything in between — reply to your dispatch email, before the visit, from the field, or after you’ve submitted. One chain keeps the whole assignment organized, with the full context already attached.
Submissions still go through the upload link in that same email — not as reply attachments. And keep observation questions off the main phone line; it routes to client intake.
