I was watching the report on Charleston being the number one tourist
city. I was trying to avoid being too specific and insulting anyone.
It was very sexy, then there would be a jarring, unstable hand held shot.
Full Disclosure - I spent several years early in my career with a local
NBC affiliate producing and cutting for news.
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On 11/14/11 4:50 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:
>
>
> In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, Mark
> Myers <MarkM@> wrote:
>
> > The race to the bottom continues. Was watching a report this
> morning on the Today Show - (Sorry to pick on NBC, Dennis, but it's
> the convenient illustration)
> > NICE crane, jib and dolly shots cut right up against horrible hand
> held shots that should never have been used. No one has any standards
> anymore.
>
> > Mark
>
> I say:
>
> I wish I knew what you saw. As Paul said, it does sound like you
> viewed a switch from live camera shots to a recorded b-roll. In order
> to draw your conclusion, most likely you didn't have the sound turned
> up. The on-air talent were probably talking about what's to come on
> the show, which was augmented with video at the change from live
> camera to a b-roll.
> Without trying to sound like I'm defending myself (and without
> knowing exactly what you were looking at), I'll try to explain what we
> do. We cut teases and opens with the material we have for the
> purpose; the purpose being, to interest viewers in what's yet to come
> in the show. It's not as easy as everyone seems to think it is. To
> say we don't have standards shows a lack of understanding the purpose
> of our work.
> If what you were watching was within an edited story, I'd like to see
> what you're talking about in order to make my own judgement. What
> time of day did this occur?
>
> Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> NBC Today Show, New York
>
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