Author Topic: TPIR On-Stage Trip Graphics (Read 4693 times)

chris319 · « **on:** September 17, 2008, 02:48:30 PM »

It's poll time again. You have only two options. If you don't have an opinion, don't vote.

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:57:09 PM »

It really needs a third option, and one that almost happened: the video wall. I think the video wall would have solved a bunch of problems (nothing displayed in-studio, green-on-green reveal issue, etc.)

Of those two, jury's out until I see how everything works.

chad1m · « **Reply #2 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:57:55 PM »

How about the option of "I don't care - I don't watch the show to nitpick the minute visual elements and it ends up looking the same on my TV anyway?"

Mr. Armadillo · « **Reply #3 on:** September 17, 2008, 03:04:58 PM »

Well, it *should* be the painted trip skins, if you ask me, but I'm not going to get too upset if they use trip skins, green screens, or a stagehand holding up a ragged cardboard sign saying "SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA", for that matter.

chris319 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 17, 2008, 03:05:14 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'197470\' date=\'Sep 17 2008, 11:57 AM\']
It really needs a third option, and one that almost happened: the video wall. I think the video wall would have solved a bunch of problems (nothing displayed in-studio, green-on-green reveal issue, etc.)[/quote]
They haven't started using the video wall yet AFAIK, so I'm confining it to the two options they have used.

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How about the option of "I don't care - I don't watch the show to nitpick the minute visual elements and it ends up looking the same on my TV anyway?"

Regardless of whether you care or not, they have to display them one way or t' other.

chris319 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 17, 2008, 03:08:41 PM »

[quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'197476\' date=\'Sep 17 2008, 12:04 PM\']
Well, it *should* be the painted trip skins, if you ask me, but I'm not going to get too upset if they use trip skins, green screens, or a stagehand holding up a ragged cardboard sign saying "SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA", for that matter.
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Interesting idea for a showcase.

I'm for the hard artwork, so long as they don't make Paris look like Hollywood did in the bee-yoo-tee-full Hollywood mural.

PYLdude · « **Reply #6 on:** September 17, 2008, 03:27:21 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'197477\' date=\'Sep 17 2008, 02:05 PM\']
Regardless of whether you care or not, they have to display them one way or t' other.
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Well, yeah...but if someone doesn't care how it's done, they should be able to say so.

(FTR, I voted chroma-key...it's just time.)

clemon79 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 17, 2008, 03:34:16 PM »

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'197487\' date=\'Sep 17 2008, 12:27 PM\']
Well, yeah...but if someone doesn't care how it's done, they should be able to say so.[/quote]
That would be the "then don't vote" part of the equation. If response to the poll is poor overall, then you probably know a lot of people don't care.

Chief-O · « **Reply #8 on:** September 17, 2008, 03:37:21 PM »

Skins. If not that, then they should've kept the video wall that they were rumored to be using.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #9 on:** September 17, 2008, 04:07:07 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'197489\' date=\'Sep 17 2008, 03:34 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'197487\' date=\'Sep 17 2008, 12:27 PM\']
Well, yeah...but if someone doesn't care how it's done, they should be able to say so.[/quote]
That would be the "then don't vote" part of the equation. If response to the poll is poor overall, then you probably know a lot of people don't care.[/quote]
Exactly. If it's anything like the last one (and I can't imagine that it wouldn't be), then the vast, vast majority of us game show fans just aren't going to see it as any big deal. For the record, that's where I am on this one, despite CGJ's perfectly valid list of reasons why it creates a problem in the studio.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #10 on:** September 17, 2008, 04:16:14 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'197477\' date=\'Sep 17 2008, 03:05 PM\']They haven't started using the video wall yet AFAIK, so I'm confining it to the two options they have used.[/quote]
I could be wrong about this, but I was under the impression that it's not so much "haven't started yet" as "couldn't afford to keep it."

chris319 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 17, 2008, 04:43:11 PM »

When giving away trips they have to show something. You can't open the doors to reveal the stagehands pushing the Buick Skylark into place for the next game. The producers have to pick one or the other.

NickS · « **Reply #12 on:** September 17, 2008, 10:43:42 PM »

I voted for pics/artwork, if only for the fact that it's a lot less easy to screw up than keying the wrong source.

Hastin · « **Reply #13 on:** September 18, 2008, 11:21:00 AM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'197496\' date=\'Sep 17 2008, 01:07 PM\']
For the record, that's where I am on this one, despite CGJ's perfectly valid list of reasons why it creates a problem in the studio.
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Agreed. Steve and CGJ have some perfect points on why this sucks from a contestant reveal and studio factor. However, if it appears the same on the TV side of the screen, then I believe that it's not a big issue. There's lots of shows with things that suck horrible (2 hour stopdowns for DoND, Some horrible recuts of Pat's spin in WoF), however they don't affect the outcome or look of the final show. They're filming a TV show, not putting on a stage show.

clemon79 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 18, 2008, 11:24:33 AM »

[quote name=\'Hastin\' post=\'197599\' date=\'Sep 18 2008, 08:21 AM\']
They're filming a TV show, not putting on a stage show.[/quote]
They are, but I do agree with the point that the atmosphere inside of the studio has a lot to do with how the show that eventually airs on TV looks. I'm just not willing to proclaim it Worst. Change. EVAR until I see hard proof that that atmosphere is affected. So far all I have seen are hypotheses.