I'm all for exploring interesting camera angles, but not when you can't see a single one of the contestants during the opening number in the finale!
I nearly had a seizure during the first five minutes. Every other shot was taken up by waving arms in the fake mosh pit. And I hated not knowing whether I was
looking at the top 12 or a crazy pack of dancers. Terrible. Just terrible.
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Are we allowed to say the direction sucked?
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Posts: 1044 (05/23/08 6:35 PM) |
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Posts: 4060 (05/23/08 7:29 PM) Registered User |
I noticed during the intros they had a new director. What I hated the most was during Ruben's "Celebrate Me Home," all we saw was Ruben and not
the montage behind. No one cares about Ruben!
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Posts: 6624 (05/23/08 7:33 PM) Registered User |
FUCK RUBEN. he sucks monkey nuts.
But yeah, this shit bothered me on Tuesday night as well. Every time Cook or Archie was getting to a good part of the song, they'd fucking show the band or some other shit. I wanna see these fuckers sing. Not watch the violins or Ricky Fatass Minor. |
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Posts: 139 (05/23/08 7:57 PM) Registered User |
Lobsters wrote: With Jason' s solo not only did Ryan diss him in the intro, but the camera wandered away most of the time to show the whole inside of the theatre, and the gigantic stage up to the ceiling. As if that is the most important thing - not that we want to see his face when he's singing. They don't want us to forget the massive size of the theatre. Compare it to the nice photography and lighting when he first sang Hallelujah. |
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Posts: 743 (05/23/08 8:01 PM) |
HoboKitty wrote: X |
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Posts: 1536 (05/23/08 8:18 PM) Registered User |
I had a problem with the camera angles throughout the latter half or third of the season. Can't pinpoint timing exactly, but I know it made me feel as
though I wasn't getting the visually best compliment to the songs. Much of the time the cameras were pulled too far back. Or not focused on the performer.
The finale was the worst, though. Filming the back of the performers? Allowing the waving mosh arms to take up 1/2 of the screen? And when there are dancers involved it is critical for the camera to know exactly where they need to focus instead of jerking around so you essentially see nothing. One thing I would love is a few more shots of the judges during the performances, edited in if it made story sense. But I guess that's the Survivor spoiler analyst in me. The rare time when we get a glimpse of the judges when someone is singing I sit up and start to look for how it is going to go re: critiques. (But I don't need to see any shots of Paula dancing.) |
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Posts: 6630 (05/23/08 9:08 PM) Registered User |
Yes, dagny. i noticed towards the end of the season that their absolute FAV camera angle of Cookie
was from down below him. So basically you got to see right up his nose. I think the most glaring standout bad editing job was when Cookie was singing Music of the Night... he's finishing the song and hitting the glory note, and their showing the violins. *rollseyes |
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Posts: 15 (05/23/08 9:18 PM) |
They are trying to change things up with the angles and screwing things up completely. In their attempts to freshen up the show with
special angles and dangles it's gone down hill. The opening shots for the finale sucked. As someone said which one were the twelve and who were the
dancers? They kept shooting Cook's ZZtop performance from down where the fans are sitting and you've got hands waving in the air in front of the
performance. It looked like a fifth grader was shooting a home video.
Idol really needs to focus on what the singers are doing and showing things from the best angles and not setting us up to count nose hair. Nose hair? It's way overrated. |
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Posts: 1540 (05/23/08 9:37 PM) Registered User |
Does anyone else wish that TPTB have someone assigned to read the message boards and glean ideas from the general crap that's posted? TPRB listen up! We
are not getting as much from our viewing experience as we should! And PLEASE get rid of that hideous "mosh pit." It adds nothing. Capiche?
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Posts: 745 (05/23/08 9:46 PM) |
Yeah, I've even emailed them about the mosh pit and the stupid question segment. I doubt anyone even read it though. The constant hand clapping for any
ballad sucked too.
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Posts: 2633 (05/23/08 9:52 PM) Registered user |
Thank you for this thread.
The direction was dreadful, simply dreadful. I've seen better directing on cruise-ships. |
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Posts: 527 (05/24/08 1:00 AM) Registered user |
I didn't like the whole introduction thing with the two Davids wearing white and acting all serious. WTF was that? So awkward/lame!
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Posts: 2796 (05/24/08 1:18 AM) Registered User |
Kenalicious wrote: You mean the waving of the arms to the slow songs? I. HATE. THAT!
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Posts: 3108 (05/24/08 1:55 AM) Registered User |
There was a director? I simply assumed that they turned a bunch of monkeys loose with cameras and aired whatever it was they shot. Scratch that. The monkeys
would have done a better job!
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Posts: 188 (05/26/08 2:41 PM) |
daggers44 wrote: Which was perfect for AI.
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Posts: 592 (05/28/08 10:13 AM) |
Aside from the well done (but pre-recorded) "boxing ring" shots, the direction in the finale was terrible. At one point Jordin was singing and
(sorta) dancing and actually moved completely out of the shot. When your camera can't keep an object as large as JORDIN SPARKS within the frame, you know
things are seriously fucked up.
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Posts: 9857 (05/28/08 12:49 PM) Registered User |
They should have used the panoramic lens.
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