2010 Taurus SHO segment
Drew
with gee-whiz technology is a proven formula, and the fact that the person
showing him the car was an attractive woman added the dynamic of Conan
overcompensating for his masculine insecurity (e.g., the
flexing-while-revving-the-engine part).
Anyway, I thought I'd break this newsgroup's radio silence to point out
something odd I noticed in the closed captions for this segment.
Apparently, a few seconds of footage were cut from the segment after it had
been captioned but before it aired, yet the captions were left in, so some
"bonus" captions aired despite the lack of video to match up with them.
Here are the extra captions, which come about 2 1/2 minutes into the
segment, after Amy shows Conan the touchscreen and Conan asks whether cars
are getting too "smart":
Amy: You don't want to take too much control away from the driver.
Conan: Right.
Amy: The driver needs to be in control. But you want to help the driver.
Conan: Actually, there are drivers, like my father, for example -- the car
should take over for my father. We just keep pulling mailboxes out of the
grill. And once, a mailman.
Amy: That's not good.
Conan: He's going to be fine. I mean, when he wakes up.
Jim Ellwanger
Drew <dre...@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net> wrote:
> Anyway, I thought I'd break this newsgroup's radio silence to point out
> something odd I noticed in the closed captions for this segment.
> Apparently, a few seconds of footage were cut from the segment after it had
> been captioned but before it aired, yet the captions were left in, so some
> "bonus" captions aired despite the lack of video to match up with them.
Assuming they're still captioning "The Tonight Show" the same way they
were back when I was involved with it in 1999 (and I don't see why they
wouldn't be), a caption file is prepared in advance from an audio feed
of the taping, and then someone is sending out that caption file live as
the show airs. A producer is supposed to call the captioners between
tape and air to say if anything was edited out, but that may not have
happened in this case (wonder if it's an issue with Conan's staff still
not having the procedure down 100% -- they used to have about 6 hours to
call with the cuts in the "Late Night," but now that's down to about 2).
It's possible to "skip over" lines in the caption file as it's being
sent out, as well as doing quick emergency edits. However, it's also
possible that the person sending out the file "zoned out" and just kept
sending. Unfortunately, I don't have my recording anymore, or I might
be able to tell the story based on the speed at which the captions were
scrolling -- there would probably be a noticeable pause if there was an
actual "oh, shit" moment.
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JG
> This was one of the better remotes I've seen in a while. Letting Conan play
> with gee-whiz technology is a proven formula, and the fact that the person
> showing him the car was an attractive woman added the dynamic of Conan
> overcompensating for his masculine insecurity (e.g., the
> flexing-while-revving-the-engine part).
Too much of a blatant Ford Ad for me, this and the electric Focus Leno
uses for races. When Fox News local on UHF does a Wal-Mart puff piece,
I'm not surprised.
At least Conan is spending production money and doing bits, Letterman
is coasting in the studio.