Was it my TV or...

[Phil236849]

did everyone else find the camera work last night abysmal. i presume it was due to local production. makes you appreciate how good ours is

Mainly:

 

1. The focus was too zoomed in, with the result on my telly that the ball-player was normally off screen, the ball just about on screen, and the focus on where the cameraman thought it would be going

 

2. Even then, as he was still too zoomed in, when there was a long pass, the cameraman would fail to react, and the pass would go off screen!

 

3. The cameraman/producer had a fondness of viewing attacking play from a side angle. i wouldnt mind if i had bought a ticket next to the corner flag and was soaking up the atmosphere, but if i'm watching on telly, i like to see my goal action from the view coming from behind the attacking team!

 

4. The cameraman/producer seemed nervy and there would be moments of quick switching between different angles

 

all in all i felt it made it quite horrible to watch and i'm just glad it wasnt like that in a big match!

[Kahnee]

It was fine for me

[Gerry]

French TV is always like that. They just seem to like that side-on angle whenever the ball hits the penalty box (for some reason). They also love their slow-motion clips of players talking/gesticulating/gobbing etc.

[Bigal]

I had the same problem with regards to the players being off screen

[The Hitman]

Abysmal camera work.

[Andy Mac]

Yep same for me !!!

[Phil236849]

French TV is always like that. They just seem to like that side-on angle whenever the ball hits the penalty box (for some reason). They also love their slow-motion clips of players talking/gesticulating/gobbing etc.

 

french tv is generally what ours was like in the early 70s. in an appalling time-warp, so i shouldnt be surprised, but still

[Coyler]

The feed to Setanta had an audio echo in it which was fecking annoying.

 

PLUS, the f*****s switched to an ad at about 88 minutes and then came back to the wrong match (were Porto playing last night?) and we missed the Warnock chance.

[Bigal]

sorry coyler, I would love to have seen that, me dad screams at the telly when we are on, and he would have gone mental if he was watching the game and an advert came on during the match

[Extraordinary Swindle]

The feed to Setanta had an audio echo in it which was fecking annoying.

 

PLUS, the f*****s switched to an ad at about 88 minutes and then came back to the wrong match (were Porto playing last night?) and we missed the Warnock chance.

Is that what happened? I screamed at the little man (22 months old) of the house to leave the remote for tv alone and he looked at me all bemused before running off to tell his mother that "Dada go mad!". Got an earful from herself then for shouting at the child until he started trashing the kitchen.

[Tosh]

I have a widescreen telly, and it was fine for me. All you need to do is get yerself a wider screen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hagi_complex]

I was watching it in widescreen on Sky and the camera work and director's choice of shots were indeed poxy.

 

The camera was too low for a start. Sorta like televised games at Highbury when the action is on the opposite side of the pitch. The complete opposite of say games from the old Wembly or the Nou Camp.

[Boca]

That side angle camera was a pain in the a***. Every time one of their players got a head to the ball I was convinced it was going in the net.

[AE]

Is that what happened? I screamed at the little man (22 months old) of the house to leave the remote for tv alone and he looked at me all bemused before running off to tell his mother that "Dada go mad!". Got an earful from herself then for shouting at the child until he started trashing the kitchen.

 

 

Sounds like my house.

[Coyler]

Is that what happened? I screamed at the little man (22 months old) of the house to leave the remote for tv alone and he looked at me all bemused before running off to tell his mother that "Dada go mad!". Got an earful from herself then for shouting at the child until he started trashing the kitchen.

Yep. Some Timotei ad or something.

 

Bordeaux were just breaking into our box as well

Edited October 19, 2006 by Coyler

[steviegw]

Yeah, I wanted to pull my hair out for a number of reasons last night, but the camera work did my head in.

It was woeful. Players in possession were constantly off screen, and the lack of camera and angles made a poor game look even worse

[cestrianred]

It was gash I concur.

 

That shot from side on to the penalty area was awful & consistently on view for far too long

[Knox_Harrington]

I love to imagine some autuer type director calling these shots:

 

Now cut to him looking up to the sky - oh the pathos, now...manager looking anguished...the relief on the opposition defender's face, every action has a reaction, yes, yes and now back to him shaking his head. Ahh. That's art. That's football.

[McBain]

I had to set my tv to 16:9 and i still couldn't see the man on the ball half the time