Watched this and whilst it's got potential there are many, many things that are wrong with it some forgivable some less so imo.
1) The whole thing was distinctly amateurish, the make up was poor no-one had any idea of what camera to look at and it felt contrived from the get go. All pretty forgivable imo but there is technical level of ability that needs to be found.
2) The skits, here is master chief being all girly ain't that hilarious. Solid snake is on the phone to a call centre, LAUGH. Duke Nukem forever is taking forever, giggle fuckwits. Didn't work for me. That type of humour works best when you're quite fucked with your mates and your imagination can take hold.
3) The presenters, nerves aside (which is understandable) their shit was spread all over the place and could have done with being got together. Yhatzee we know you're the arch cynic, but really the stuff on the sofa? Not good. Yug/Matt stop worshipping Yhatzee please. For the love of God employ a script writer bugger off and watch every single episode of new format Top Gear. It's clearly what you're going for.
4) Presenter articles, it was the best bit for me. The wooden aspects pretty well buggered off, there were some interesting points made and I found myself able to forgive Yhatzee's face.
In conclusion overall I thought it was crap, but there was just about enough there to have me daring to hope that it could be good. I do want to see more of it but it'll have to get a lot better quite quickly.
Submitted by Nibbles on Fri, 2008-12-19 11:46
yeah the camera thing was glaring, and the makeup well seemed to have been applied by roller. From what I've gathered it was filmed by students who while they have access to the kit may not have the best skills when using it.
I suspect they had four cameras all going at once and then cut between the feeds afterwards which meant the people on screen had no idea which camera to look at hence often focusing on their closeup camera. Usually when you do that sort of thing professionally the cameras just do their own with some instructions form on high and the mixing desk sorts out what feed goes where and a light on the camera indicates which one is active ... that was certainly the case when I did tv at any rate :D
The crazy skits were a bit tiresome, although I chuckled a bit at duke nukem forever. The individual scenes where they had natural lighting and a single camera and some sort of prepared script worked a lot better.
It shows potential but as you say a few rough edges to smooth out
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Watched this and whilst it's got potential there are many, many things that are wrong with it some forgivable some less so imo.
1) The whole thing was distinctly amateurish, the make up was poor no-one had any idea of what camera to look at and it felt contrived from the get go. All pretty forgivable imo but there is technical level of ability that needs to be found.
2) The skits, here is master chief being all girly ain't that hilarious. Solid snake is on the phone to a call centre, LAUGH. Duke Nukem forever is taking forever, giggle fuckwits. Didn't work for me. That type of humour works best when you're quite fucked with your mates and your imagination can take hold.
3) The presenters, nerves aside (which is understandable) their shit was spread all over the place and could have done with being got together. Yhatzee we know you're the arch cynic, but really the stuff on the sofa? Not good. Yug/Matt stop worshipping Yhatzee please. For the love of God employ a script writer bugger off and watch every single episode of new format Top Gear. It's clearly what you're going for.
4) Presenter articles, it was the best bit for me. The wooden aspects pretty well buggered off, there were some interesting points made and I found myself able to forgive Yhatzee's face.
In conclusion overall I thought it was crap, but there was just about enough there to have me daring to hope that it could be good. I do want to see more of it but it'll have to get a lot better quite quickly.
yeah the camera thing was glaring, and the makeup well seemed to have been applied by roller. From what I've gathered it was filmed by students who while they have access to the kit may not have the best skills when using it.
I suspect they had four cameras all going at once and then cut between the feeds afterwards which meant the people on screen had no idea which camera to look at hence often focusing on their closeup camera. Usually when you do that sort of thing professionally the cameras just do their own with some instructions form on high and the mixing desk sorts out what feed goes where and a light on the camera indicates which one is active ... that was certainly the case when I did tv at any rate :D
The crazy skits were a bit tiresome, although I chuckled a bit at duke nukem forever. The individual scenes where they had natural lighting and a single camera and some sort of prepared script worked a lot better.
It shows potential but as you say a few rough edges to smooth out