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Posted by kim on 10/23/06 12:08
"Adrian A" <anca@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:W7qdnXcFvr-MC6HYnZ2dnUVZ8tSdnZ2d@brightview.com...
> 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,
It wouldn't have been so bad if the DOG *was* in the corner, on a W/S TV it
was nearer the middle of the screen.
(kim)
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