Comments and Suggestions for Meet the Bloggers?

Email Print posted by jarett 08/10/2008 02:39:17 AM EST

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So, MTB has been on for a few weeks now, and so far I see that Cenk's right -- it looks pretty damn professional and has remarkably good production values.

Plus, that host is just so damn insightful.  And his website's forum has incredibly brilliant posters.  Who are also really really ridiculously good-looking.

Here, however, is my one suggestion.

Cenk.

Buddy.

The camera cuts.  Please.  Stop them.  They're SO GOOFY.  You look over at the next camera for no reason, and they only cut to the next camera like a second and a half AFTER you look.  It is the ONLY bad production moment in the entiiiiire show, but it's been present in every show so far.

Other than that, keep up the good work!

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camera cuts... (none / 0)
are industry standards...yes they suck, and look goofy, but that's really the only thing seperating Countdown from TYT.  The camera cuts allow for "dramatic pauses" and pretty much show the audience that the studio has more than one camera.  I hate them too, but they're not going to stop any time soon.  My one observation about MTB is the sound quality isn't all that great.  Whoever mics the set either uses lovs, or they don't adjust the mixing board for individual voices.  The mics peak a lot, and that's very fixable, but it makes the viewer have to adjust the volume frequently.  I would go out on a limb and say that the person who does audio is probably doing another job as well, so they don't get to focus on the audio as much.  I could be wrong, and it could just be the compression needed to stream, or to put videos on youtube, but it's just an observation.  I love MTB anyway!
Chris

by chrisandyasemin on 08/10/2008 12:17:21 PM EST

I get it, but we can still fix this (none / 0)
You don't want to stay on the same one-shot all the time.  I get that.  But we can at least go from desk to headshot + graphics, or desk to multiple people, without Cenk having to awkwardly turn in one direction or another.  They NEVER get the timing right and it looks REALLY weaksauce.  It's the only bad thing about production in the whole show, but to me at least it's incredibly jarring.

by jarett on 08/11/2008 03:55:25 PM EST

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Is there an audio only download for MTB? (none / 0)

I don't really have time for regular TV, much less internet TV.

I listen to everything in the car or while working around the house. 

by ProfRich on 08/10/2008 12:41:58 PM EST

Excellent Question (none / 0)
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by ihavenobias on 08/10/2008 12:55:51 PM EST

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Love MTB (none / 0)

I have a few topic suggestions.

1. How do we increase the pace of primary challenges to wayward dems? (I really don't think that many would be necessary to reach a critical mass and get dems to start respecting the left the way the respect the right).

2. How can we prevent Steny Hoyer OR Rahm Emmanuel from e-v-e-r becoming speaker. This takes planning and foresight; left unaddressed one of them most assuredly will, eventually.

Great guest ideas? Barney Frank, Glen Greenwald, Digby, Jane Hamsher, Josh Marshall, Dan Froomkin(Wash Post), Eugene Robinson, Bob Herbert.
 

by dclawyer06 on 08/10/2008 01:04:21 PM EST

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