Re: Parades on T-Day; how to find them?
Ubiquitous
wrote:
>Last week one of the cartoons in the newspaper suggested that if these
>parades wanted to amp up their ratings they should cut one of the
>balloons loose and claim that a small boy was trapped inside. Imagine
>the TV coverage as a Kermit the Frog balloon floats above New York City
>with a small boy trapped inside: ratings gold.
BWAH!
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Ubiquitous
>I was reading something last week, maybe wikipedia, and it said that
>in the early days of the Macy's parade, they let the balloons loose.
There was a special on The History Channel that said the same thing.
Michael Black
> et...@ncf.ca wrote:
>
>> I was reading something last week, maybe wikipedia, and it said that
>> in the early days of the Macy's parade, they let the balloons loose.
>
> There was a special on The History Channel that said the same thing.
>
So likely someone saw that special, ran to wikipedia and updated it.
Michael
Ubiquitous
Yes, it's very likely. Did the entry list that as a source?
Michael Black
> So, we DVR'd 3 parades. The were, in decreasing order of suckiness:
>
> The superlame McDonald's Chicago Macy's parade
>
> The CBS Parade that was Macy's but CBS refused to mention it, and
>
> The NBC Macy's parade
>
> All offered amazingly bad coverage, featuring mostly awful lipsyncing
> and high school bands and only showing balloons or anything you'd want
> to see as an afterthought or teaser at commercial breaks
>
Maybe they are required to film them badly, so people won't think "I can
see it better on tv, so I won't go downtown".
We have a local Santa Claus Parade, took place last week, and one of the
French channels broadcast it the next day. It was kind of silly, it was
up to 10C yet the people covering the parade were dressed like it was
freezing cold. But they too seem to think the point is to provide content,
so just as something you want to see comes on, the pull back, so one of
the on-air "talent" can talk to someone on a float or something.
The problem is, filming something live can never be the same thing as
being there. If you have the cameras far enough back to take everything
in, then everything looks kind of small. If they pan and zoom, then they
end up deciding what's important, when you might want to see something at
the edge of the screen. Once they've started "editing" the parade with
the camera work, I guess it's not far to seeing their job as presenting
content, which means talking to the people on the floats, and the cops
on the beat and maybe even the audience, but not trying to present
the parade just like it would be if you were there.
Michael