Halting the March

During the Rose Bowl halftime the Michigan Marching Band was performing.  ABC gave them some coverage but insisted on changing the camera angle every few seconds.  There’s absolutely no reason to do this.  I’m barely interested in a marching band and if I was annoyed that I couldn’t see the synchronized marching and what shapes and such they’re making, I can only imagine how pissed off those who care about this kind of stuff feel.  I’m sure that the dozen or so kids that go their close-ups are happy, and that there are some giddy friends and family out there, but overzealous direction and some wannabe MTV angles really took the steam out of the show.

Posted by David M Singer on Jan 01, 2005 at 08:01 PM

Comments:

  1. Yeah, that’s certainly pretty annoying.  I didn’t see it (was traveling), but don’t get how they do something like that with the marching band - it’s like they were using the angles they do on a Super Bowl halftime show rather than showing what the marching band is able to do - and, spends a ton of time laying out.  Ugh.
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    Posted by Tom on Jan 02, 2005 at 09:01 PM

  2. I blame that stupid Dan Cortez show “MTV Sports” for that type of ridiculous camerawork. Stupid Dan Cortez.

    Posted by Van on Jan 03, 2005 at 05:01 PM
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