Jul
8
We Don’t Need to See the Crowd!
Filed Under Uncategorized, bitching
Dear Sporting Event/Rock Concert Video Director,
Why do you insist on showing me so many shots of the crowd? When I go to a sporting event and someone scores, I never EVER look around at the other people in the stadium to see what they’re doing. I want to see the interaction between the guy who scored and his teammates.
And when I go to a concert, I watch the band the entire time. I don’t care about the guy in the front row who is air drumming or the group of chicks who know all the words. I’M A HUGE FAN AND I WANT TO SEE THE BAND!
So why is it that so many TV directors engage in the amateurish act of repeatedly showing crowd shots to their television viewers when the television viewer wants to see the focus of the event, THE ATHLETES AND THE ROCK STARS! Jeezus H.
I wanted to gouge my own eyes out with a fish fork this weekend while watching the crunchy and, dare I say a tad pretentious, Live Earth broadcast. The show was reasonably good until NBC took over. The performance I was most looking forward to, the Police, had so many friggin’ crowd shots that I nearly spun into a rage right there in the living room. And when they did decide to show the band, all we saw were tight shots of Sting and John Mayer. JOHN MAYER! He’s not even in the band! Stewart Copeland is a great performer and we didn’t see the guy! Ugh.
Have I made my point?