Ejector Seat starts on Monday. I had a good gut feeling about it, but I’m wondering if it might have been misplaced.
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Ejector Seat starts on Monday. I had a good gut feeling about it, but I’m wondering if it might have been misplaced.
Is that a cut to get around a technical issue, someone was saying the chairs kept breaking? If not, seems a strange idea to deliberately muck about with the ‘money shot’ as it were.
I did wonder.
I think another issue for me is that in my head people would keep on going back and at the end of the track it would just happen – which would be dramatic and funny (like Russian Roulette), only we appear to have Andi Peters sending them off which looks like a wasted opportunity.
I think it’s probably one of those things that sounded fun until they actually built the bit of kit and found that it didn’t look as good as it could. Once the body’s been tipped back 90 degrees, it’s not going to go anywhere (well, not without breaking someone’s neck) so they’ve had to add the graphical effect to simulate removal.
Even so, I don’t think this way of doing it is particularly entertaining – the way they do it on Graham Norton’s show is funnier.
I think I would have tilted it back 90 degrees, cut to front on shot smoke, tilt back sans player. The Chaircam shot isn’t really adding much, in fact I think it detracts from the intended effect.
Yeah, but I think they’re trying to get away from Graham Norton (who isn’t?). This is laudable but, from what we’ve seen so far, seems not as successful.
I think in this case if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. If you’ve built your show around a visual effect as Endemol shows do these days, you’d better make sure it works properly.
I’m still hopeful the quiz element will be fun, but I think it’s going to feel less stressful and exciting knowing that the chair won’t just tip at any time and you’re going to get told you’re the weakest link before doing so.
I would have thought the problem of physically removing seated contestants from a set was a problem solved 25 years ago on Remote Control, but perhaps safety standards have increased from the days of Ken Ober’s basement.
I don’t know. IIRC in Ken Ober’s/Anthony H Wilson’s basement they wore seatbelts!
Think it looks poor compared to The Red Chair on GN…
Shame.
As much as I don’t like cheap gimmicks, I probably would have dropped a bit of slime or something.
Does that make me a bad person?
news from Italy:
RAI appointed Carlo Conti as host of another half dozen shows, including next year’s Sanremo song contest!
Big week for Andi Peters next week then. He’s also doing the new on the road gameshow element for Good Morning Britain (Daybreak replacement (GMTV replacement (Good Morning Britain replacement)))
http://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/competitions
Dave are advertising something called 24hr to Go Broke which involves being dropped into a big city with a suitcase full of cash with the challenge to spend every last penny of it. Not sure if this will be a documentary or a full on game, but still, I’m keeping an eye out, it sounds a bit like that 100 Grand In 100 Minutes thing on radio years ago.