[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'226530\' date=\'Sep 20 2009, 04:53 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'226524\' date=\'Sep 20 2009, 03:57 PM\']That was a step up compared to when they changed the look last year. I remember watching outdoor scenes, and the background was so washed up that I couldn't tell the sky from the ground because the camera op failed to close the iris on the camera.[/quote]
I'm not a soap fan, so I hadn't heard about the change to hand-held digital video cameras and just happened to stumble across it one afternoon. And yeah, what you said. I've got no problem with the idea of doing it, but the execution was so spectacularly amateurish that I just wondered what they were thinking. Yes, the next time I saw it several months later, it had gotten noticeably better, but by then they'd probably scared away that many more viewers.
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I really hope this handheld look of things goes away soon. I don't mind it in its place for say like news reporting, but at our local station everything we do outside the studio is on constantly motion handheld. Im one for looking modern thats fine, but when you cant watch the show for getting a headache cause of the motion of the cameras (not jerky just constantly in and out and side to side like on a boat) its pretty bad.
Sometimes a tripod is nice.
