Re: Fri. 5/9 'Will it Float?' Sorcery

"Tom W" <bleemer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Crash Bandicoot wrote:
>>
>> You don't have to really worry about misdirecting the home audience
>> when the camera is in a tight close-up on a billiard ball...
>> you could bring an elephant on the stage!
>> There are some do's and don'ts when photographing magic,
>> and most of the "don'ts" were violated this week :(
>
> That's what I found most disappointing about this week's acts. The 
> magicians didn't seem to take the TV cameras into account.



....or did the director not take the nature of the act into account? I
surely 
don't mean to be disparaging, and, not having been there, we don't really 
know, but sometimes TV people just feel a need to get really close, just 
because they can. For instance, you will see a lot of football halftime 
shows totally ruined, because the TV people don't seem to grasp that those

are designed to be seen from wider angles. Same with dance. The waist up 
shot is usually meaningless in dance, but they want to be "up close."





I suppose if a magician is
> putting together a magic special, he has weeks to plan his tricks and he

> can work with a director to make sure that the cameras are in their
proper 
> places and which action they'll record. Since there's not that much
time, 
> a smaller stage, and a live audience as well as the TV cameras, the 
> magicians had to do a careful job of selecting and staging their tricks 
> and they all failed.
>
> I thought the guy on Tuesday and P&T did the best just by keeping a pace

> going.
>
> Tom W