Today, I was bored, so I decided to go down to the computer room and watch some TV. It was the first time I had watched TV in well over a year. Caught the tail end of Access Hollywood, then switched and watched a bit of the new Survivor.<\/p>\n
The thing that I kept noticing, and that eventually drove me crazy enough to stop watching (after only about half an hour), was the number of cuts shows and commercials nowadays have. You’d think there’s a new FCC regulation that you can’t have a single shot longer than a second or something, for fear of offending someone.<\/p>\n
Seriously, I think the only shots I saw that lasted longer than literally a second were commercials where the background was changing constantly (annoying), shots where a single person was talking to the camera (Survivor interviews, at least… the Access Hollywood interviews constantly cut between shots even while they were interviewing someone…), and the long scenic shots in Survivor like where they focus on a bug and then shift the focus out to the tribe banner or something. (The new Survivor intro<\/a> is particularly guilty of this… even when showing the people, they show at least two shots of each competitor in the 1 second of screen time they give them.)<\/p>\n I noticed this a while back in music videos as well… the new<\/a> (and old<\/a>) music videos for Daughtry, for example, feature almost-constant cuts between scenes.<\/p>\n Has our society really gotten so ADD that we require constant changes in imagery to remain engrossed? Today, I was bored, so I decided to go down to the computer room and watch some TV. It was the first time I had watched TV in well over a year. Caught the tail end of Access Hollywood, then … Continue reading
\nOr have shows always been like this, but I’m just now getting old and weird enough to notice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"