Well, okay, first a bit about Nashville. ABC obviously has a lot of
hopes for it – the network deliberately ran back-to-back new episodes of
Modern Family last night so the new show could have the best possible
lead-in.Selecting the best rtls
solution is a challenging task as there is no global solution like GPS.
The pilot, while filled with exposition and other forms of pilot
shorthand (always necessary to set up every relationship and conflict in
a few seconds) was quite juicy,The stone mosaic
comes in shiny polished and matte. sort of a combination of the ABC
soap form with the epic, politics-infused style of The Good Wife. Like
Smash last season, it’s an attempt to build a large-scale cable-style
series but with at least some characters who are basically good, and
therefore more accessible to a large audience than the average cable
character.
Whether it takes off like The Good Wife or goes
downhill like Smash will depend a lot on future episodes, and
particularly whether it can do a good job balancing the political
aspects of the story – which look to be more heavily emphasized in the
next two episodes – with the show business backstage stuff. But it does
start with one advantage over Smash: while that show made virtually
everyone a good person at heart (except one minor character that nobody
liked), Nashville is founded on a more solid, classic All About Eve
foundation with one “good” character and one “bad” character at the
centre of the action. The Hayden Panettiere character is not all bad,
and her backstory with her mother is going to be expanded on in the
weeks to come. But by opposing the basically good Connie Britton with
the basically mean Hayden Panettiere, the show does establish a basic
rooting interest that a lot of shows simply don’t have.
Anyway,
back to the trivial detail. In the pilot of Nashville there’s this scene
where Connie Britton is driving her daughters in a car, and finds to
her horror that they are fans of Hayden Panettiere’s music. (These kids
today, following these manufactured pop idols.) This is a pilot,
remember, where the budget is higher, there’s more money and time for
location shooting, and everything looks slicker than in the series that
follows. But the scene in the car looks like a classic rear-projection
automobile scene that could have been done in the ’50s, with the blurry
backgrounds and the angles that make the car look very much like a
couple of chairs propped up on a soundstage. (I suppose there’s always
the chance that it could turn out to be a real car, but it sure didn’t
look real.)
Was this a problem? No.Selecting the best rtls
solution is a challenging task as there is no global solution like GPS.
Blurry rear-projection is just one of those things you accept; if
you’re worried about that, then the show already has bigger problems. So
this isn’t about Nashville specifically. But like the infamous boat
scene in the pilot of Ringer last year, it left me scratching my head
about why green-screen scenes look like this. TV has come so far
technologically in so many ways, and that includes the use of CGI – you
may remember the video from a few years back that showed how seamlessly
TV shows use digital backgrounds to make locations look different or
bigger. But when it comes to driving scenes, there are more of these
’50s-style shot now than there have been at any time since the days when
The Dukes of Hazzard would cut in to the Duke Boys in front of
rear-projection plates. So why would the technical standard of TV
improve in so many areas, but decline in the one specific area of green
screen projection?
The best answer I can give to my own question
is that maybe the increased availability of green screen has made shows
more willing to use it when they don’t necessarily need to. In Old
Hollywood movies, a lot of scenes would be shot in front of plates
either because it was easier,Find detailed product information for howo tractor
6x4 and other products. or could keep everyone in the studio where the
producer could keep an eye on them, or just because they were shooting a
lot of retakes after everyone came back from the location. The
production style of modern TV sometimes seems similar. In an era of
rising costs and tightening budgets, shows may be more inclined to keep
shooting indoors where it’s possible, or where using a real car might
complicate the schedule (for example, in a scene involving children,
whose scenes are always hard to schedule).
The other possibility
is that there’s just something about HD video shooting that makes
moving backgrounds stick out more than they did a decade or so ago, when
most shows used film.China plastic moulds
manufacturers directory. (I don’t know if shows today use real video
for these backgrounds or if they create them digitally; if they’re
digital, that might explain why they don’t look quite right.) Whatever
the reason, it’s kind of a relief to realize that TV still hasn’t
advanced to the point that every single bit of technological trickery
can fool us. After all, if they ever reach that point, they’ll be able
to progress to the next stage: digitally replacing the actors in front
of the green screen.
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