I'm not much for watching tv, but ever since I can remember and yes I can remember I was around when MTV first aired!
Music videos really suck!!
Why is it you can't have a video with camera shots that don't change every tenth of a second?
The reason I asked this is because I made a point of staying up to see KISS on Dick Clark's New Years bash and they showed the performance of KISS Symphony. Out of which through the whole song you saw more audiance and less KISS. I have yet to buy the DVD but know after seeing that the DVD will be much of the same!
But this isn't limited to just the KISS performance.
Any video be it live or "produced" is like that, no camera shot holds for more than a second, they are always flashin from one shot to the next non-stop! Next time you watch a video get up and move around it gives the strobe light effect!!
A majority of videos I have seen surprise me that they don't give you a seziure!!
Why can't they make a video where the director doesn't have too much coffee and keep the camera on a shot ? They must think that this is the way you want to see it.
Not me , if I'm watching a live performance I want to see the band not the people in the front row!! Video producers and directors need to watch Austin City Limits a show where they have a few cameras set up but mainly change shots as required, guitar solo, singer etc. but not at a high speed pace.
You want high FPS tune into MTV!!
I don't know about anyone else but This really annoys me!! and I don't really see the point of watching music videos when you can't get the enjoyment of seeing your favorite artist perform! Your better off with the cd.

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I didn't know it actually had a name, I thought it was called crappy directing and editing!!
Again for fear of inducing seizures if I had a 2yr old no way would I let them see these!!

I hope it's just a trend.... & it's one thing that really annoys me too! It's not just music - it seems be be a common thing on certain type of programs ....

I suspect it's a fashion - a bit like 'flash' on websites .... the producers don't seem to get that no one is impressed - & all it does is pee folk off.... 

Hope I'm wrong but I think this has gone too far to be called a fashion. The trendy guys who came up with the idea in the first place are now the teachers.
It's probably seen as quite normal except by us old geezers who know better. I thought I was the only one to object to this crap. This topic has at least given me a little hope. The only way to protest is not to watch the stuff.

im with fret, well in part, well u see.... i have the KISS Meadowlands concert, called The Last KISS, and i think that by far is one of the best, not only because is KISS playyin but because the show the how, they rarely show the ppl, i mean who cares about them?! 8) but seriously, i also have the AC/DC SARStock performance, and to be frank, i didnt mind the camera dude wandinrg off in the crowd (if u guys saw it u might know why...) or the Paul McCartney back to the US tour, also a very well made piece of memorabilia... i have thoe and i dont have complaints... now, while i lived in the states i never watched MTV, i think they r a bunch of sellouts who only care for the money. i always watched VH1, i think is farr better, and they show true music, not some hip hop stuff that uses no musical instruments whatsoever and that they moan and grunt throughout the song. i aldo have a few clips of Black Sabbath's Reunion concert... i do have a few complaints but not many.... what i really hate is when the guiatr/drum/bass solo is on and the camera dude moves away to the ppl, they dont show the solo how sh!tty is that?!?!?! i think it all depends on what u watch, and it would be outrageous if the KISS Alive IV DVD was 90%ppl 10%band....

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That is my main complaint exactly!!! That is what happend last night on the show that got me ticked and why I decided to start this topic!!
And Alfred Hitchcock: I always admired as a director. Although I have read allot of people bash his style of film making i belive it to be some of the best!! It almost made you feel like you were there with the character on screen!!
And that was his intentions.
To bad to many producers/directors/editors etc, refuse to learn from such simple but effective means of capturing ideas on film (tape/ disc).
To many get the idea that people want the "live" effect, well I'm sorry to say but when I'm at a show I'm not looking at a thousand different places a minute, I'm focusing on what is on stage! Well unless if the lady next to me decides to show her wares!
And that is what I would like to see on TV/DVD/TAPE etc, the show the way you would see it if you were there. If I want "spectacular" visual effects I'll watch a movie!
But a band I want to see the band not each member every other second but as a whole and then as each member by themselves as warrented and of course the "wares" shot here and there will be fine also:)

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I find golf boring anyway. That's not the point as I know many enjoy watching it on TV. It always amazed me how the cameraman can follow the ball accurately & rarely seems to lose it even when I can't see it with my own eyes. The same goes for cricket when the small ball is often travelling at speeds in excess of 100 mph. With this type of technology you don't need some trendy editor messing about with it & trying to make it more interesting. What he finds interesting doesn't impress me & would most likely give me a blinding headache. This is the point I was trying to make.

Ender. Maybe you should write your editorial & send it to every record company, TV station, directors schools & anyone else you can think of. I would willingly sign it along with 1,000s of others. All the time we're prepared to put up with this rubbish they must think it's what we want & therefore subject us to more of the same.

You might also like to consider the affect all this has on the brain, particularly of our young people who are now exposed to this stuff from an early age. I'm not sure if any serious research has been carried out but I know from my own experience that a sequence of rapidly changing images can & does bring on a migraine attack. The human eyes & brain are unable to cope with this sort of thing. This is the reason I refuse to watch anything likely to "feature" it. The fact that a warning is broadcast before a programme containing any strobe effects is shown proves to me that this is well known to the broadcasters themselves. Unfortunately even a rapid battery of camera flashes on a news programme can set it off for me.

I feel that the entertainment industry needs to take a good look at itself & seriously consider where it is going. People might think I'm an griping old fogey but I still consider myself young-minded & liberal. I played regularly in a rock & roll band that started back in the early 60s before the Beatles were heard of & did so for something like 12 years afterwards. I remember when discos raised their ugly heads in the early 70s that strobe lighting over a certain frequency was banned in the UK due to the health dangers. This was not enforced in some parts of Europe & I felt ill & actually fell over when entering a disco in Spain with the strobe effects going flat out.

I could go on about sound volume & mumbling actors but will leave it here for the moment. I often wonder what some youngsters will be like when they reach my age, that's if they ever do of course.

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I can vouche for the sound volume, i have exposed myself to hundreds of rock concerts in the past, and now at 35 my hearing is less than what it should be! What?