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Old 22-01-2012, 20:22
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Some of the camera work tonight has been abysmal. There have been several occasions where I have been looking at an almost empty ice rink with only half the skaters bodies in picture.

Every time they use the track camera running alongside the side of the rink half of what you see is the track the camera is running on.
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Old 22-01-2012, 20:25
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I agree with you. You tend to see the exciting bits during the replay at the end!!
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Old 22-01-2012, 20:25
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In Heidi's routine, the cut from long-shot to overhead shot to long-shot at the end meant you couldn't see what was happening at all.
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Old 22-01-2012, 20:51
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In Heidi's routine, the cut from long-shot to overhead shot to long-shot at the end meant you couldn't see what was happening at all.
Totlally agree we missed a complete part of the routine,,,
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Old 22-01-2012, 20:55
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I posted a separate thread tonight on the same subject.

The ridiculous camera angles on this series are really spoiling the programme for me.

The long distance shots and the aerial shots looking down on the dancers heads are the worst.

There also seems to be a continuity problem when coming away from one shot during a routine to another angle, it often appears as though a piece of the routine was missed.
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Old 22-01-2012, 21:02
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I agree - the camera work is dreadful.
And I dont much like the patterns on the ice - half the time you cant see the skaters.
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Old 22-01-2012, 21:07
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I'm sure the effects on the ice are technologically brilliant, but they render aerial shots absolutely useless. You cannot differentiate the skaters from the patterns.
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Old 22-01-2012, 21:14
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I posted a separate thread tonight on the same subject.

The ridiculous camera angles on this series are really spoiling the programme for me.

The long distance shots and the aerial shots looking down on the dancers heads are the worst.

There also seems to be a continuity problem when coming away from one shot during a routine to another angle, it often appears as though a piece of the routine was missed.
yes the constant chopping and changing of angle after only a couple of seconds means that you eyes just ajust to that angle and you make out who's who, what's arms and legs and what they'er doing ... and then they jump to a different shot

I thought tonight especially with there being so much off ice faffing in the routines prior to them actually starting to skate plus the disjointed camera angles meant that I felt I hardly saw any actual skating
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Old 22-01-2012, 21:50
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Completely agree.
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Old 22-01-2012, 22:00
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Agree with both the camera work (we don't want 'arty', we just want to see the skaters dancing!) and the designs on the ice - I like them to look at, but wish they would remove them just before the skaters start their routines.

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Old 22-01-2012, 22:01
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Yes the overhead shots are stupid and distracting! And as others have said you din't want to see an empty rink.
Surely they could get the camera angles sorted in rehearsals
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Old 22-01-2012, 22:05
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Good grief,a DS thread where everybody agrees

It was really annoying tonight,especially some of the pointless overhead shots
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Old 22-01-2012, 22:07
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Absolutely agree, I thought it was just me (due to having poor sight) but interesting that others find the same
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Old 22-01-2012, 22:17
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Been thinking this for a long time. Irritates me that they do so many long shots where you miss a lot of what they're doing. Very poor.
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Old 22-01-2012, 22:20
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The camera shot always changes just as the skaters are about to do a spectacular lift or other movement - one they have sign-posted in the VT before the routine. Then we don't see it.
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Old 22-01-2012, 22:50
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Camera Work Abysmal. They are trying to do the same as SCD and have obviously not bothered to read the SCD forum where people complain about camera work! We dont want this stupid long distance stuff we want to see what they can actually do. Whilst it may "glam it up" it actually detracts from the point of the show.
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Old 23-01-2012, 10:01
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Every time they use the track camera running alongside the side of the rink half of what you see is the track the camera is running on.
No you didn't, that was a film strip.
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