And I also have to second the nomination for The Office.
I've been told it's really funny and all that, yet just last week I attempted to watch an episode, but couldn't.
Why?
Because of the drunk monkies they seem to have operating the god damn cameras! I thought The Blair Witch Project was bad for unstable camera shots, I got about 5 minutes into the show before I had to turn the channel.
Frig, all it was was jitter this, two seconds, cut to the other camera, jiggle around, zoom in, try to focus, cut to the next camera, shake it around, jiggle up and down, zoom out, cut to the other camera, jiggle jiggle, oops you zoomed in too fast and to the left and buddy who's talking is way out of the shot, jerk it back into proper viewing... OH WAIT.... CUT TO THE OTHER CAMERA QUICK!!!..... ffs, I thought there was an earthquake going on during filming. I want to watch a show and be able to focus on what's going on for at least 5 seconds before you cut to another camera.
I could understand this type of film work during a hockey game, continually trying to keep track of the hockey puck or something, or maybe I could buy this type of camera work while police are chasing down a suspect in COPS, but frig, somebody's gotta take the bag of coke from the cameramen and tell them to chill the hell out a bit with the tasmanian devil camera work.
I can't even remember what the episode was all about because I was so distracted by the crappy high school camera work.
I've been told it's really funny and all that, yet just last week I attempted to watch an episode, but couldn't.
Why?
Because of the drunk monkies they seem to have operating the god damn cameras! I thought The Blair Witch Project was bad for unstable camera shots, I got about 5 minutes into the show before I had to turn the channel.
Frig, all it was was jitter this, two seconds, cut to the other camera, jiggle around, zoom in, try to focus, cut to the next camera, shake it around, jiggle up and down, zoom out, cut to the other camera, jiggle jiggle, oops you zoomed in too fast and to the left and buddy who's talking is way out of the shot, jerk it back into proper viewing... OH WAIT.... CUT TO THE OTHER CAMERA QUICK!!!..... ffs, I thought there was an earthquake going on during filming. I want to watch a show and be able to focus on what's going on for at least 5 seconds before you cut to another camera.
I could understand this type of film work during a hockey game, continually trying to keep track of the hockey puck or something, or maybe I could buy this type of camera work while police are chasing down a suspect in COPS, but frig, somebody's gotta take the bag of coke from the cameramen and tell them to chill the hell out a bit with the tasmanian devil camera work.
I can't even remember what the episode was all about because I was so distracted by the crappy high school camera work.