NG
I suspect that it is here to stay - especially if the local-TV pilots (10 mins a day from up-to 60 local news operations - initially based around the Where I Live website and BBC Local Radio stations - take off.
They will have to use PDP-style production methods to produce enough stuff at a low-enough budget.
The best I think we can hope for is people actually learning how to shoot and edit stuff decently using the kit. It IS possible to produce reasonable quality stuff using miniDV quality kit - you just have to work around the limitations of the cameras (by not zooming on shot, shooting with the lens fully wide when hand-held etc.), and be diligent with your sound monitoring and white-balancing. You also have to think carefully about lighting, and are more limited in the kind of scenes you can shoot.
The problem is that people think they can cut corners - especially some (by no means all) people who just don't have the patience and mentality to stick to the right way of doing things. In the past this wouldn't have effected picture quality on-screen - because there would have been a professional camera operator using a broadcast quality camera - now there isn't.
noggin
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museumman posted:
well, as I have said before on this board, I am just amazed that the BBC Regions carry on doing this. Everyone seems to have a problem with these new cheapo cameras. How long will it take before some of the bosses within the bbc start to realise they have made a mistake?
Can anyone tell me who I should complain to?
Can anyone tell me who I should complain to?
I suspect that it is here to stay - especially if the local-TV pilots (10 mins a day from up-to 60 local news operations - initially based around the Where I Live website and BBC Local Radio stations - take off.
They will have to use PDP-style production methods to produce enough stuff at a low-enough budget.
The best I think we can hope for is people actually learning how to shoot and edit stuff decently using the kit. It IS possible to produce reasonable quality stuff using miniDV quality kit - you just have to work around the limitations of the cameras (by not zooming on shot, shooting with the lens fully wide when hand-held etc.), and be diligent with your sound monitoring and white-balancing. You also have to think carefully about lighting, and are more limited in the kind of scenes you can shoot.
The problem is that people think they can cut corners - especially some (by no means all) people who just don't have the patience and mentality to stick to the right way of doing things. In the past this wouldn't have effected picture quality on-screen - because there would have been a professional camera operator using a broadcast quality camera - now there isn't.