Livewireshock
7th April 2007, 07:37
The first edition of the new coverage has appeared on Channel Ten today. Just curious as to what the opinion of all & sundry was.
First impression is obviously the copycat format from the WRC coverage. Even down to the theme music & title styling. The wording & narration is straight out of the same handbook too.
In essence, there is no endless face to camera comments & thus more rally action on screen. The biggest downfall I saw was the fact that not even the top 5 cars received coverage. Kaitler came home 5th for the weekend and I can not recall seeing one shot of his car at all.
One redeeming call was the teams logos being included in the result screen shots. Just a minor thing but it counts, although I am not sure I need to see a lingering shot of a rock or railway line while the results are shown. Plus I know Ford & Toyota are bankrolling the shrinking tv budget but surely all drivers that make the top 10 deserve a passing two second shot at least.
All up an improvement but far from perfect. Not bad since the TV crews have shrunk from 7 to 3 on the ground to obtain footage.
First impression is obviously the copycat format from the WRC coverage. Even down to the theme music & title styling. The wording & narration is straight out of the same handbook too.
In essence, there is no endless face to camera comments & thus more rally action on screen. The biggest downfall I saw was the fact that not even the top 5 cars received coverage. Kaitler came home 5th for the weekend and I can not recall seeing one shot of his car at all.
One redeeming call was the teams logos being included in the result screen shots. Just a minor thing but it counts, although I am not sure I need to see a lingering shot of a rock or railway line while the results are shown. Plus I know Ford & Toyota are bankrolling the shrinking tv budget but surely all drivers that make the top 10 deserve a passing two second shot at least.
All up an improvement but far from perfect. Not bad since the TV crews have shrunk from 7 to 3 on the ground to obtain footage.