RE: (very OT) Something about TV camerawork

["Nick Broughton" <mail@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply
> Any chance of a clue as to the effect?

Nope.  Can't put my finger on it.  It's not so much as an effect
as a style.
I get the feeling that it's going to turn out to be something to do
with
frame rates or lines, but it's distinctly noticeable.
>
> I get the feeling TV cameramen(/people?) or their directors, are
> increasingly trying to be either artistic or "original"
to
> give a particular
> show something memorable enough to maintain ratings and
> therefore their
> revenue streams and jobs.
>
Don't think it's that.

> In any case it can often seem annoying. My personal one is
> something that I
> saw in some "30 something" type programme with Londoners
and
> an odd title
> like "That's Life" but obviously not since there is no
Esther
> Ranzten(sp?)

This life?  Can't comment as to whether it's there, never watched
it.

<snip>
>
> I only really follow "Friends" in American sitcom and
Ally
> McBeal (until it
> got dumped) if you would class it that way. The only thing I

The wife watches Friends, and I assume that it exhibits this behaviour,
because I'm *not* in the habit of watching US sitcoms and I don't know
what
else gives me this impression...

> can think of
> that compares with other American sitcoms I have seen
> episodes of, is the
> spend x% of the programme using cool local city shots.
> Admittedly this will
> not be such an odd experience after visiting New York and
> Boston next month
> so instread of a loss of programme it can become "I have been
> to that bit"
> when Friends or Ally McBeal is on but it is something I associate
with
> American programming.

Again I don't think it's anything as obvious as that.
<snip>

>
> Well I can't think who Linda Bellingham is off hand (no doubt I
will
> remember once I hit send) I do not watch Emmerdale and is

The woman from the gravy adverts.

> Stars in your Eyes
> still going? I guess that wasn't one of Barrymore's shows
<g>

Yep & Nope

> I seem to
> remember what Stars in your Eyes is as a programme, but isn't
> the camera
> work just a series of closeups intermingled with long zooms and
pans?
>
> > It really winds me up, put probably mostly because I don't
> understand it.
> > Who knows what I'm talking about?  Who can explain it?
>
> If it needs explaining then even an explanation probably
> wouldn't help.
> Seems to be a taste issue so probably an artistic one. The
> same weird camera
> effects I mentioned earlier had no effect on the person I
> watched the same
> show with. But then this same guy has a habit of channel surfing
so
> frequently that I am not sure he actually follows any
> programme that closely
> and he probably changes channel whenever the camera view
> offends without
> thinking :)

The wife is aware of it too, so it's not just me.  I think it's
something
technical rather than artisitic.  The Q awards on sky 453 have been
doing on
and off this evening as well.  I've been channel surfing, but it seems
to
have been consistently doing it when somebody was introducing an award.

>
>
> Mark.
>
>

Nick


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