Takamura-San
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The worse thing was the no direct feed for the majority of the trailers or gameplay demos.
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Shuhei Yoshida apologises for "atrocious" gamescom stream camera work
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DXB-KNIGHT
Member
These things happens, though the best thing to come out of a Sony conference was
dancrane212
Member
Still not as bad as g4 at e3 2007, cutting to a commercial break during the Halo 3 trailer was a moment of brilliance.
He watches the final bosman, and kyle did bring up the awful directing this week. wonder if that brought it to focus for him
BronsonLee
Member
What the hell do you want them to do? Logic dictates the shot should be direct feed for a large portion of it.
And, again, any shots you see from the cameramen are dictated by the floor director. They are there to facilitate. That is all.
Jib stuff was fine, just used too often. Director was probably new to conferences. I highly suspect he blew a switch call when that extensive zoom stuff happened. No cameramen will make moves like that under any circumstances if they know their shot is hot, unless something went horribly horribly wrong.
dragonbane
Member
I think someone already said this was likely a miscommunication problem. And the director likely comes from the TV industry and has no clue about videogames. Just hire someone else next time.
neo2046
Member
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Fire that director !
that is the most annoying game conference I have ever seen
not because of the contents nor the presentation, just because of the camera !
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
The switching between trailers and some fucked up view of the place/people was nerve wracking. Whoever was in charge of coordinating the cameras needs to get banned from editing rooms for life.
I think if you saw the entire broadcast you'd agree with us, it wasn't just Jim Ryan's extreme close up that was the problem.
Various Artists
Banned
Well at least he knows. The worst part was pulling away from the direct feed videos to pull out and show the crowds.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
It doesn't need to be that complicated though. Camera on stage, wide angle to get stage and screens and direct feed. Give the director 3 buttons to push. If a trailer or gameplay is shown DIRECT FEED!!!
silver.tongue
Member
Somebody should get fired.
Simple as that.
My vote goes to the director.
Simple as that.
My vote goes to the director.
BronsonLee
Member
WHAT?!
I heard about the G4 stuff from Sessler's Twitter feed during the Gamescom thing, but really? That can't be right. That's like Heidi levels of stupidity
Lakitu pls :'(
Pinkman_ABQ
Member
Lol. This reminds me of some of the shots from Man of Steel.
BlazingDarkness
Member
It was pretty funny though, in a terrible kinda way.
Hope TGS is a lot better.
Hope TGS is a lot better.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I dislike Internet hyperbole just as much as anyone but it really was that bad. Constant switching for the entire conference. Many times they'd be showing gameplay for a new game and it was zoomed out. This happened in the Indie games part especially because each game only got like 5-10 seconds to show gameplay. That must suck for those devs. Really bad.
Takamura-San
Member
I presume this is all contracted work. No one is getting fired, just not contracted again.
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uncharted86
Member
This was the only time in the entire conference it happened, right?
The constant audience pans were very annoying.
dancrane212
Member
If I remember right you actually heard Adam say something like "You guys enjoying this?" right before it cut too. Now that I think about it they also did it for the Mass Effect trailer too, had a choppy stream going to switch to when they cut.
CaptainTiptop
Member
I'm guessing that quick zoom in was the camera guy refocusing his shot. The vision mixer really should have cut to something else and the camera guy shouldn't have gone for it before he was given the okay. Poor communication, I guess.
I'm glad they've learnt their lesson. No more crowd shots during gameplay and trailers.
I'm glad they've learnt their lesson. No more crowd shots during gameplay and trailers.
Pristine_Condition
Member
More proof that Yoshida actually DOES read his Twitter... LOL
I know I complained. Although I complained much more about the director cutting to all those crowd shots in the middle of game video. That was FAR worse.
I know I complained. Although I complained much more about the director cutting to all those crowd shots in the middle of game video. That was FAR worse.
ThaiGrocer
Member
Gamescomstar Galactica
ComputerMKII
Banned
Hahaha it's like I'm really watching Battlestar Galactica.
LMFAO
indigo-cyclops
Member
I'd say it was the worst live camera work I have ever seen!
Ehmmmm?
RPGCrazied
Member
Glad he brought it up. Whats the point of showing the crowd? Then when a trailer shows up, it fullscreens, only for the camera to zoom out on the room again. How are we suppose to see the game trailer when the screen is so far away? If it was automated, thats one thing, fix it for next time. If a guy/team was responsible for that, I say its time for a firing or at least go back to camera college.
DidntKnowJack
Member
Or Firefly.
FunkyPajamas
Member
Matt Damon has you covered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=P_13eaIO7eo#t=61
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=P_13eaIO7eo#t=61
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
It was really fucking awful. Shit like that is unacceptable. Gaming is big business so having some amatuer fucker behind the lens or some numpty directing it all so badly up stairs is inexcusable.
If it was sport or a music event...well it would never happen. Sack the bastard responsible it annoyed me that much.
If it was sport or a music event...well it would never happen. Sack the bastard responsible it annoyed me that much.
Where's the .gif/video of the GiantBomb crew laughing at this? I was crying when that happened hahaha
Fire the person making the decisions behind it. Probably his supervisor or boss.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
The camera panning out during trailers was really starting to piss me off. I couldn't see shit!
I'm not saying fire the guy.. but that motherfucker needs to have a talking to after that garbage.
I'm not saying fire the guy.. but that motherfucker needs to have a talking to after that garbage.
Dictator93
Member
Camera too slow for fast ship
The way he kept moving his hands back and forth like in the gif was so so annoying, he never stopped it.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Cutting away from direct feed footage of trailers really was the worst part of it. I have no idea what would compel anyone to make that decision. I was complaining about this with a friend I was chatting with during the conference.
Terrible camera management in general.
Terrible camera management in general.