It’s been well over 2 years since I first purchased the Glidecam 4000 and began this obsession with camera stabilization. This journey (which I’m still on) has been one of DIY obsession. Fueled by my refusal to spend the money to get a real Steadicam, I have instead sunk hundreds into places like eBay, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Ace’s Hardware, and Musician’s Friend. Am I satisfied totally with the results? Never - but I have brought my modified Glidecam to a reasonably strong level of stability. Will I always be tinkering with it? Probably - or at least until I have enough money that I can justify the purchase of a Steadicam… but that’s a long ways off.
Until then, the world will have to bear with me and the “Franken-Glidecam”
7. The fact that the Reality Show Genre has been around for well over a decade and that every contestant or reality show participant acts like they can’t believe what’s happening to them (ie. the bad contestants on American Idol). Gimme a break… you watched Road Rules and you hated that dude with the crazy hair - now that you’re all grown up, don’t act surprise that everybody hates you… it happens.
6. The three Panel Judge formula introduced and perfected by American Idol. First judge is an All-around judge - a medium honest straight talker. Second judge, usually a woman, is a soft sweet and nice judge usually the most positive of all judges. The final judge, usually a foreigner, with a sharp tongue and isn’t afraid to verbally beat down the contestant. Yeah, its a format that works, but come on already.
5. Celebrity love shows: Nothing is more disgusting than watching groupies compete with each other. Shot at Love, Flava of Love, Rock of Love… That’s why when something like this happens on Tila Tequila’s “Shot at Love 2″… it’s great:
4. Shows featuring the Loosers of “Finding Love” shows: That’s Amore, I Love New York, the Latest Bachelorette…. When I a looser of a reality show gets his or her own “finding Love” show… well congratulations - you’ve extended your 15 minutes of fame into 16… well done Domenico Nesci you punk…
That’s post modernism for you.
3. Scripted reality Shows: I really hate “The Hills”… it’s like execs sat around and said, let’s do a “reality show” like 91210 and The OC but lets find a bunch of absolutely terrible actors - like bottom barrel terrible awful actors - it’ll be okay because we’ll sell it as a reality show.
More commentary from the Soup Video from : youtube.com
2. Manufactured Suspense: Suspense where there is none. Achieved by cutting quickly to different contests looking shocked with intense music.
And now… the number one annoyance…
Of reality based programming….
The number one most annoying thing….
IS……
Dum Dum DUM
1. OMG - the most overused statement in all of Reality Television. Every show has to have it at least one time - from the singing competitions to the finding love shows - especially the home makeover shows. Oh… My…. God…
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The purpose of this article is to become familiar with the basics of DVD authoring so that you can take that masterpiece of a film you’ve edited on a favorite NLE and put it onto disc so others can enjoy it.
For this article I will mainly be referencing Adobe Encore CS3. Although some of the terminology might be Encore specific the general idea of DVD authoring should be applicable to any DVD software.
Well I didn’t want to leave that last post like that. The emails had a overall positive effect.
Most importantly it all came together for the best concert I’ve ever had last Thursday night!!! We shot with 3 cameras in HiDef and I’m busy capturing and mixing everything right now. Preliminary results have been pretty darm good.
