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BR
Brekkie
JCB posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
However, the highlight of course was the power cut. I love how on Deal or No Deal they keep the bloopers in - that could have been easily edited out but they kept it all in and showed us how they locked the boxes in the cages and the Noel took the p*** out of the viewer comp intros with his own lighting effects. Brilliant!


If the show wasn't at a point where where it's so tired it needs "bloopers" and power cuts to make it entertaining they wouldn't have to keep them in. The above poster is right - the show takes itself far far far to seriously.



Well - some of you were convinced it was a tired format by about week two.

Personally I'd say the show has been better in the last couple of months than it has for about a year - though each to their own I suppose.


And yes, sometimes the show might appear to take itself too seriously - but that's way better than a "I looked in my box during power cut" exposee in the Daily Mail!
JC
JCB
Brekkie Boy posted:
JCB posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
However, the highlight of course was the power cut. I love how on Deal or No Deal they keep the bloopers in - that could have been easily edited out but they kept it all in and showed us how they locked the boxes in the cages and the Noel took the p*** out of the viewer comp intros with his own lighting effects. Brilliant!


If the show wasn't at a point where where it's so tired it needs "bloopers" and power cuts to make it entertaining they wouldn't have to keep them in. The above poster is right - the show takes itself far far far to seriously.



Well - some of you were convinced it was a tired format by about week two.


It was a tired format by week two IMO. You've seen one you've seen them all....despite what Noel say's.
MB
Mark Boulton
Brekkie Boy posted:
Probably one of my favourite shows today with a great game and a great contestant.


However, the highlight of course was the power cut. I love how on Deal or No Deal they keep the bloopers in - that could have been easily edited out but they kept it all in and showed us how they locked the boxes in the cages and the Noel took the p*** out of the viewer comp intros with his own lighting effects. Brilliant!


How could the cameras keep rolling and VT keep recording if there was no power? Was it just a power cut to the lighting grid?
:-(
A former member
Just watched the clip on You Tube of the power cut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COcgIpYRlJ4

I know power cuts can happen, but it seems they are trying to hard to prove to the public that Deal is not a fix.
JF
JamesyFish
What I don't get is if there was a power cut, why didn't the cameras go down, maybe it was an emrgency generator, maybe it was faked to keep audiences, oooh I'm full of conspiracies today!
DA
David
goldfish97 posted:
What I don't get is if there was a power cut, why didn't the cameras go down, maybe it was an emrgency generator, maybe it was faked to keep audiences, oooh I'm full of conspiracies today!


I think it was a bit of both.

Watch the clip on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COcgIpYRlJ4). I don't think you see the power cut happen (they had already gone to a break, so it looks like it might have happened then and not while recording the show). Also, only one camera was used (the only camera running off batteries and recording on tape locally maybe?) during the whole power cut. I'm not sure how Noel Edmund's microphone was still working though, maybe it wasn't, the sound isn't that great after the power cut is it? What other microphone would pick him up though? Would there be one on the camera?
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
goldfish97 posted:
What I don't get is if there was a power cut, why didn't the cameras go down, maybe it was an emrgency generator, maybe it was faked to keep audiences, oooh I'm full of conspiracies today!


It wasn't necessarily a "power cut". There are a number of reasons why the lighting would fail.

Power to lighting is isolated (separate) to sound and camera power supplies to prevent interference. The fact that the working lights (the white light you see in the roof space) continued to work tells me it wasn't a break in supply, but more likely a problem with the dimmers.
DO
dosxuk
Possibility that they lost a phase in the supply, which could mean they still had technical (sound & vision) supplies while losing the dimmers. It would also tie up with them saying that someone cut through a cable on the site next door.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Gavin Scott posted:
[The fact that the working lights (the white light you see in the roof space) continued to work tells me it wasn't a break in supply, but more likely a problem with the dimmers.


Would that not be the emergency lighting?
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
[The fact that the working lights (the white light you see in the roof space) continued to work tells me it wasn't a break in supply, but more likely a problem with the dimmers.


Would that not be the emergency lighting?


It looked like working lights to me, as the ceiling space was pretty well illuminated.

Emergency lighting is really only there to guide crew/audience/talent out of the space, and as such I wouldn't have expected to see the overhead grid lit like it was.

I may be wrong. There's a first time for everything Wink
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
dosxuk posted:
Possibility that they lost a phase in the supply, which could mean they still had technical (sound & vision) supplies while losing the dimmers. It would also tie up with them saying that someone cut through a cable on the site next door.


Lighting on a single phase of a 3-phase supply?

Ermm.. possible, but highly unlikely.

I wouldn't have set it up that way anyway.
JO
Johnr
Well it knocked the game board out!

My feeling is the builders were only allowed to carry out major work during filming breaks to prevent trouble in filming the show

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