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How NBC Ruined the 4th of July
If you watched NBC’s coverage of the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular then you noticed their ridiculous camera work. Instead of focusing one camera on the entire action they awkwardly switched from camera to camera, often missing the fireworks completely. And they focused entirely too much on the people watching. Do I want to see hundreds of people staring in rapture at the fireworks? No, I want to see the explosions.
They even missed some spectacular fireworks by focusing at the audience, and I just wished I could make them turn the camera so I could see the fireworks. That’s what the viewers care about. Unfortunately I don’t have that kind of power. One particularly amazing part started with what looked like Iraqi tracer fire criss-crossing through the sky. It was amazing, but I missed the beginning due to the camera being on the audience.
Congratulations to NBC on messing up a national event with their ridiculous efforts to remake the show. This isn’t a movie. I don’t need to be held in suspense, confused at the camera trickery. Do your simple job of broadcasting the fireworks and not pissing me off.
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[...] UPDATE: Jason said NBC ruined their fireworks coverage with “too cool for the room” camera edits that missed all the good stuff. Figures. I didn’t get to see any fireworks, since, for some reason, they don’t celebrate July 4 outside the U.S. Weird, right? Posted: July 4, 2006 by Nathan Weinberg in: [...]
Dude, in my country we have invented something cool: it’s a device that lets you switch channels from a certain limited distance, like when you’re in your chair. That way, you can easily see what’s on TV on another station. We called it: the distance-swapper (DS). It runs on batteries. I don’t know if it works on TV’s in the US, but it’s quite popular here. We also have it for radios and DVD players.
Maybe you can order one here and have it shipped to your country, so you can use it as well?
Lol. We call it a remote control. The problem in this instance is that the Macy’s fireworks were only on NBC. This is a spectacular event that brings people from all over the place to New York to see the fireworks.