It's all fish paper. Creative control of a staged production. What are the fireworks? A simulation of a battle we happened to win. 150 years ago, or maybe 199 years ago, or 235 years ago.
It's no worse than what the TV crews do before a ball game, or football game. They send a "color crew" out to capture the feel, the essence of the area, a few monuments, people playing in a park. traffic on the roads. Usually on a Thursday, while they had the rest of the crew setting up for the game. They recorded all these shots, for re-use, so they didn't have to do them again, as long as they had enough variety to cover the weather prevalent at the time. My experience is limited to the old days, when the parks had no pre-wiring in them, so heavy cables had to be dragged up the camera positions throughout, attached to the semi-truck with the producer/director's consoles inside. Meanwhile the phone company linesmen connected 100 pairs or more from trucks punch downs to the poles near the truck (s) to get the signal to the local affiliate for distribution. It didn't matter what network was airing the game. The trucks were rented by a consortium to share the signal as needed. No satellites back then to beam it up to. Then the cameras, 100+ lbs apiece, had to be carefully dollied up to the heavy duty tripods they set up on the plywood platforms built over a section of 3 or 4 seats. These were tube cameras, and were quite delicate. They soon switched to solid state Japanese cameras, which were a little smaller, weighed half of the old models, and provided a solid and less contrasty signal, which gave better color. Now I think they just show up with their own cameras to drop into the steel tripods already there (maybe the cameras are left as well) and a medium sized van with satellite dish, maybe a second or third dish set up beside the truck. Send the talent up to their cubbyhole somewhere in the stadium, and they are gold. On Jul 9, 2011, at 15:09 , [email protected] wrote: > It's definitely a slippery slope. They should at least say what they are > doing and acknowledge that it's artistry and not simply news. > -----Original Message----- > From: "P. J. Alling" <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:51:05 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> > Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: In Photographic news Apparently reality wasn't good enough for CBS > > So? It was entertainment and not news, but CBS altered the broadcast > images of the Boston Fireworks... > > http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-08/ae/29752504_1_fireworks-show-quincy-market-footage Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
