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Old 29-09-2013, 11:02
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Old 29-09-2013, 11:07
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I hate all those contrived shots of the audience reactions. How is it the cameras know just who in the audience to pan into for the required responses. It's a very obviously manipulated part of the show, I find it very irritating myself.
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Old 29-09-2013, 11:09
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it bugs me the most about the show
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Old 29-09-2013, 11:12
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They should be showing us the proper audience reaction to the performers. They must think a lot of the public are daft.
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Old 29-09-2013, 11:32
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I noticed the same girl in the audience was shown a few times.
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Old 30-09-2013, 02:47
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One of the most annoying shots I saw recently was when a boy walked onto the stage and a girl in the audience was shown trying to peer over the person in front of her to, as she might say, check out the totty, It looked like she was thinking "Ooh, sounds like a boy! Must see him!".
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Old 30-09-2013, 07:45
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I hate all those contrived shots of the audience reactions. How is it the cameras know just who in the audience to pan into for the required responses. It's a very obviously manipulated part of the show, I find it very irritating myself.
Agreed.

I find the audience cheering and whooping on practically every big note, or long held note, etc just as irritating.
Sometimes there's a cheer, before the singer has finished the first line of a song, no matter how badly they sing it.

What irks me even more is the knee jerk booing whenever the judges make an accurate assessment of how badly someone's sung..

It seems there's no room, with some, for any sort of objectivity..

Rich.
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Old 30-09-2013, 11:02
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Audience reaction during acts.

I'm confused with this one.

This year we were told auditions were going back to 'the old way' as the big crowd audiences were influencing the Judges, they were indeed, as last year just about every act whether good or bad got standing ovations and the Judges most certainly took notice of this when deciding.

Now we had the contestants in 'the room', then on to the big crowd audiences and the Judges still let the audience decide!!

I couldn't believe when on xtra factor Sharon was asked why she replaced ( name escapes me at the moment ) with Zoe and she plain and simple said " The audience done it for me "!!

This was because a few people in the audience were booing because they didn't agree with what the contestant was saying when explaining why Sharon should keep her.
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Old 30-09-2013, 12:09
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Having an audience before the lives is the worst thing X Factor has ever done.

It's mildly better this year now that the genuinely terrible acts are weeded out before going to the arena, but it still feels like a bunch of braying morons whooping and chanting and booing without a moments pause to wonder just *why* they're doing it (no doubt lead by some work experience guy holding up prompt cards at the front).

But, like I say, thank God they've brought back the room for the earliest stages now (in fact, were it not for that move I wouldn't have tuned in til bootcamp, I was very vocal on the subject last year). There's something so fundamentally unpleasant and morally bankrupt about wheeling out the deluded and the not-mentally-sound in front of thousands of people who boo, laugh, ridicule and often scoff and look disgusted that these contestants ever dare to step on the stage, just for the "crime" of having the guts to follow their dream (something the animals in the audience have probably never dared do). And then their humiliation at the hands of these hopped up animals is magnified by having the repugnant response broadcast to millions of homes nationwide - usually with some "comedy" music - so that we can all find it "hilarious". It's so unsavoury.

And the "they've seen the show, they know what they're in for" excuse doesn't cut it, because these deluded souls genuinely think they're good - they're not expecting it, and they're having their dreams crushed in front of thousands of laughing half-wits. Bah.

Imagine if that poor crazy cat guy had performed in front of the arena rather than the room - how uncomfortable would it be to see a lonely and mentall-not-the-ticket man jeered and mocked and laughed at by a crowd in the name of entertainment just because he's not as pretty or as good at singing as some generic, bland-looking tweenager!

I'm still a bit uncomfortable about the room auditions showing the crap singers, tbh - why not just show the good-to-average ones (or at least only show the crap ones who are of sound mind and actually take the criticism well)?

But thank god they've removed the legion of morons from that stage.
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Old 30-09-2013, 13:31
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I hate all those contrived shots of the audience reactions. How is it the cameras know just who in the audience to pan into for the required responses. It's a very obviously manipulated part of the show, I find it very irritating myself.
Couldn't agree more, the audience and their 'reactions' are the most annoying thing about the show.

I don't believe half of the reaction shots shown are even for the act that's actually on stage at the time. Clearly they take random reactions and edit them in to the good/bad performance. If it's an attempt at manipulation it's not a very good one
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Old 30-09-2013, 13:43
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This year we were told auditions were going back to 'the old way' as the big crowd audiences were influencing the Judges, they were indeed, as last year just about every act whether good or bad got standing ovations and the Judges most certainly took notice of this when deciding.
I was quite pleased when I heard that they were going back to the "room," auditions, as I also think that the audience reaction, in recent years, has been influencing the outcome..

At first, I thought that was just another money making ploy, but then, someone told me that tickets to the auditions are free?

I suppose, at least, the room auditions allow the judges to sift through some of the deadwood.

But, I still think it adds to the whole process to leave any live work and that includes Boot Camp, to the live shows themselves.

I think part of the test for anyone who gets through is to see how they cope when they're thrown in at the deep end in front of a live studio and viewing audience.
That's assuming that we're not all watching Strictly..
I know I am.

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Old 30-09-2013, 14:25
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Oh I agree, the shocked looks on the dim witted audience irratate me. The show has been better this year because the mentally unstable entrants were reduced and there was less ridicule. The acts that were really terrible, seemed odd, but not vulnerable.

At least it's not as bad as Amanda Holden's fishlike gawping in every good act on BGT.
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Old 30-09-2013, 16:26
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Just something I thought was worth adding. My friend once appeared in the audience "enjoying" an act during BGT, but as it turns out, he wasn't actually present during that audition. It was either a different session, or the audition took place a different city, but he was adamant that he'd never seen the act. (I'm tempted to say it was the successful dog act the year before Ashleigh and Pudsey)
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Old 30-09-2013, 16:56
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They always do that. I remember I went to one of the auditions a few years ago. One of the people would make the audience stand up and cheer while they filmed the crowd they did this a few times after a few different acts. I was so suprised how much editing they did.
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