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Posted by Adrian A on 10/23/06 10:14
Lee Mellows wrote:
> Jesus! What the fuck happened?
> Congratulations to the beeb on producing the worst-looking show on
> TV! Did no-one see the rushes? Why are all the shots so smeary? At
> some point someone made a decision to go with some new filming
> technology that obviously went horribly wrong. So why didn't they
> stop? The preview for next weeks show looks no better. Was the whole
> series shot like this? Surely someone must have noticed that
> something was going very wrong with this show.
> I was really, really looking forward to this programme, but it's
> almost unwatchable, the bizarre visual quality completely ruins the
> drama, utterly takes you out of the situation.
> I thought it looked odd on the previews, but I presumed that someone
> had been mucking about with the speed to give it that effect, but no,
> the show it self did actually look that bad. It makes it look as
> though it was shot on 30 year old cameras under low light conditions
> onto 1" stock.
> It's not an entirely new phenomenon either. Did anyone watch
> 'Blackbeard'? That looked fine while they were on board ship, but any
> time they cut to one of the Governor's mansions the picture went all
> smeary and the black levels became lifted, flattening the picture.
> Bizarrely , the same thing happened in the last episode of 'Extras'.
> When Jonathan Ross popped into Andy Millman's Dressing room, there it
> went again, smeary motion, flattened contrast etc. for three shots.
> The rest of the show looked fine, but that moment was really jarring.
>
> God I hope this doesn't become the norm.
I couldn't watch it with that BBC3 DOG in the corner, I'll form my opinion
on Wednesday when it's shown on BBC2
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Adrian
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