Unfortunately, there seems to be a need to be a bit different when filming these days. If it ain't broke.....
I've noticed close-ups seem to be getting a lot closer on all kinds of programmes. Do we really need to examine the pores on faces?!
Whilst I'm ranting, deciding to show a shot of someone sitting in the crowd or an angry managing furiously chewing gum whilst play is going on, really gets on my ****. Action replay of a near miss whilst a goal is being scored
Back on GW, not an episode for me but I appreciate the variety on offer.
What my old mum would have called 'arty farty'! If I'm watching any factual/documentary programme I want to be able see the items that are the subject of that programme, nothing else. Keep the arty, farty stuff for arty, farty programmes.
I think the 'washed out' look of much of last night's programme was an error, not an artistic decision. I'm glad I'm not the only one that spotted it though - I was doubting my eyesight to start with! Initially I thought it was just the sections in the floral marquee, which is understandable as the light inside there must be really difficult to film. But all of the Malvern bits were washed out. I can only think that maybe they'd done a correction of some kind (eg: white balance) for the marquee sections, then forgotten to readjust for the rest? Or maybe they felt there was too much contrast between the outdoor and marquee sections and tried to balance them out? Whatever they did, it didn't look good - but I'm glad it wasn't my eyesight failing!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Totally agree...and providing he wanted it a natural successor to Monty on GW, such a shame he gave up the big house in Lincolnshire as I would have loved to see the progression of those gardens as the main feature of GW.
Swapping plants around at Longmeadow doesn't really interest me anymore.
I showed the dodgy Malvern footage to my OH (who works in film visual effects) and he agrees - one of the cameras was almost certainly set up wrong (the one used for close ups of plants etc was fine) and I guess that with Malvern being this week they wouldn't have had time or budget to get it fixed, either by reshooting or in post-production. I think it's fairly safe to say it won't have been a deliberate choice!
Thanks for the tip-off about the auricula nursery - I'd actually made a note of it as I'd like to grow a few auriculas.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I showed the dodgy Malvern footage to my OH (who works in film visual effects) and he agrees - one of the cameras was almost certainly set up wrong (the one used for close ups of plants etc was fine) and I guess that with Malvern being this week they wouldn't have had time or budget to get it fixed, either by reshooting or in post-production. I think it's fairly safe to say it won't have been a deliberate choice!
Thank you!
I had people replying to me on Twitter saying it was my TV, glasses, “atmospheric conditions”, “it looked beautiful to me” etc etc.
I think I'll have my two-penn'orth on this. I like the viewers vids. Its inspiring seeing what 'normal' people are doing in average sized gardens in average situations. It inspires and encourages me, helps me realise I can have a beautiful, productive garden and it doesn't need to be the size of Longmeadow!
It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
I think I'll have my two-penn'orth on this. I like the viewers vids. Its inspiring seeing what 'normal' people are doing in average sized gardens in average situations. It inspires and encourages me, helps me realise I can have a beautiful, productive garden and it doesn't need to be the size of Longmeadow!
Some are definitely better than others.
It's the little kids forced to wield hand trowels and poke seeds into seed trays like performing monkeys that I find hardest to watch.
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What my old mum would have called 'arty farty'! If I'm watching any factual/documentary programme I want to be able see the items that are the subject of that programme, nothing else. Keep the arty, farty stuff for arty, farty programmes.
Initially I thought it was just the sections in the floral marquee, which is understandable as the light inside there must be really difficult to film. But all of the Malvern bits were washed out. I can only think that maybe they'd done a correction of some kind (eg: white balance) for the marquee sections, then forgotten to readjust for the rest? Or maybe they felt there was too much contrast between the outdoor and marquee sections and tried to balance them out? Whatever they did, it didn't look good - but I'm glad it wasn't my eyesight failing!
Swapping plants around at Longmeadow doesn't really interest me anymore.
Thanks for the tip-off about the auricula nursery - I'd actually made a note of it as I'd like to grow a few auriculas.
It looked like an iPhone video filter. Not good.