Re: [Avid-L2] Is this what we've come to?

Roger,
you haven't spent too much time watching US TV lately then huh?
i though pristine footage converted to crappy, or wobble cam, or iris
adjustments, etc, in the middle of a shot was standard now.
whoever invented reality TV should be shot, or drawn and quartered. or
waterboarded, or whatever.

it's the constant degradation of acceptable TV.

However, it surprises me that the BBC has this on.. i thought thier
stuff was excellent, all the time. I guess like Discovery Channel did,
they lowered their standards a bit. Too bad. Discovery is the new home
of almost any reality show that has trucks, crabs, trees falling down,
blah blah blah....all with crash zooms.

basically, i feel your pain.

Marc

On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote:

> Forced myself to watch a BBC1 Panorama ("""Current Affairs""")
> programme
> just now (UK). This used to be a prime strand. I was forced to watch
> footage
> fed through/placed on a little portable TV on one side of the frame
> (must be
> art), at least 5 seconds of deliberately out of focus wide shot in an
> interview and to top it all, a pseudo-home video (they did use the
> word
> video) with a very wide black border around the frame within which
> was a bit
> of film-effect footage with . . . Pseudo-hairs in the gate!
> Fantastic. I
> spent my early years cleaning the gate on Arris. This went of for
> several
> minutes. This is in addition to the usual array of crash zooms and
> deliberate wobble-cam. Lead me to the old folks home, I'll stop
> right here.
> +++
> With best wishes,
>
> Roger Shufflebottom
> Avid Certified Instructor
> http://www.bottom-line.tv
> Tel: +44 1992 535 031 (UK)
> Mobile: +44 7973 543 660
>
>

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