What are Look North playing at with the camera angles on this interview with the bloke from Leeds Met? Cutting between a mid-shot of the interviewee and a close-up side on.
Pre-recorded and editing using this extra shot to cover edits as an alternative to noddy shots? Or somebody trying to be clever and not quite getting away with it?
What are Look North playing at with the camera angles on this interview with the bloke from Leeds Met? Cutting between a mid-shot of the interviewee and a close-up side on.
Pre-recorded and editing using this extra shot to cover edits as an alternative to noddy shots? Or somebody trying to be clever and not quite getting away with it?
Awful wasn't it... was definitely live so strikes me that the director/editor/cameraman wanted to be 'arty' but given it's Look North, they didn't pull it off. At all.
Just seen Rachel Phillips with a report on Calendar - strange as I thought she left ITV Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago. Anyone know if she's freelance now or something? She certainly doesn't present the Monday late bulletin anymore.
Just seen Rachel Phillips with a report on Calendar - strange as I thought she left ITV Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago. Anyone know if she's freelance now or something? She certainly doesn't present the Monday late bulletin anymore.
Rachel now works for Granada.
Oh, right - thanks Martin.
What's even more confusing and odd is that Debbie Lindley has just presented the lunchtime weather forecast following Calendar - she left about two weeks ago too!
What are Look North playing at with the camera angles on this interview with the bloke from Leeds Met? Cutting between a mid-shot of the interviewee and a close-up side on.
Pre-recorded and editing using this extra shot to cover edits as an alternative to noddy shots? Or somebody trying to be clever and not quite getting away with it?
Awful wasn't it... was definitely live so strikes me that the director/editor/cameraman wanted to be 'arty' but given it's Look North, they didn't pull it off. At all.
I would hope his university media students could do better job than this. I've seen some dogdy eyelines and camera angles before but that was a right pigs breakfast. someone needs retraining.
Well, I can see what the director was trying to achieve, I'm not convinced it worked completely, but it was a brave attempt and certainly different to the usual BBC regional news style. If they really wanted to do the Big Close Up treatment, they could perhaps have used it more and stuck with the shots longer, perhaps starting on Close Ups and steadily zooming in. That takes some doing live and some instinctive idea on the part of the director, over what his answers are going to be. It reminds me of Face to Face, the legendary 1+1 interview programme which was incredibly minimalist (no set at all; all shot against black ISTR), very personal and almost claustrophobic at times. Because Leeds tried a 2+1, maybe it didn't work quite so well as questions could have been from Harry or Christa, so a 2-shot was needed more than perhaps could be balanced by the CU of the professor.
On the URL issue, what the hell is "puffbox"? I've never heard of it. It provides a 404 error if you remove all the extraneous url and a blank screen if you just delete the last bit... Mysterious...
To me the reason it looked uncomfortable was the cut from the mid-shot straight to the side-on close up. Had they gone via a wide shot or straight to it after a shot of Harry and Christa for the next question it would have looked a lot better, but it was almost a jump cut.
What are Look North playing at with the camera angles on this interview with the bloke from Leeds Met? Cutting between a mid-shot of the interviewee and a close-up side on.
Pre-recorded and editing using this extra shot to cover edits as an alternative to noddy shots? Or somebody trying to be clever and not quite getting away with it?
Oh dear. It reminded me of the sort of shot that would have been used when trying to protect someone's identity (imagine the face silhoutted). It didn't help with the professor's face being framed on the left hand side, so the right was just the backdrop. Perhaps it would have looked better if the face was in the middle.
Awful wasn't it... was definitely live so strikes me that the director/editor/cameraman wanted to be 'arty' but given it's Look North, they didn't pull it off. At all.
Steve in Pudsey posted:
To me the reason it looked uncomfortable was the cut from the mid-shot straight to the side-on close up. Had they gone via a wide shot or straight to it after a shot of Harry and Christa for the next question it would have looked a lot better, but it was almost a jump cut.
Perhaps that's another reason why I thought it looked poor.
On the URL issue, what the hell is "puffbox"? I've never heard of it. It provides a 404 error if you remove all the extraneous url and a blank screen if you just delete the last bit... Mysterious...
Is it meant to be a 'click and then it pops up in a separate window with no toolbars, etc' type window?
, Calendar's Michelle Gee is another one to leave the programme