I'm a big Howard Stern fan so I was anxious to see AGT with Howard as one of the judges. But I'm very disappointed. Not in Howard, Howie Mandel, Sharon Osbourn or Nick Cannon. But the show is so heavily edited and tampered with that it's dizzying.
1) Why is every scene so heavily edited? We never see anything happen in real time. If a talent starts to walk out on stage, suddenly he's in the middle of the stage. Then he's in the middle of a conversation with the judges, then he's in the middle of his act. Are our attention spans so short that we CAN'T watch the contestant actually WALK to the middle fo the stage?
2) Why is no camera take allowed to be more than four seconds? Not even during a tender moment when a talent is crying because the judges like him, does a camera take last more than four seconds. Watch a scene on AGT and count, one, two, three... By the time you get to four, there's a new camera shot. This all through the show, be it one hour or two hours. No scene is longer than 4 seconds.
3) Why is there extraneous music? Not the music an act might play. But in the middle of scenes, the producers have edited in music that wasn't playing at the time, often hit songs with lyrics that I guess are supposed to reflect the scene. It isn't necessary. Again, do they think our attention spans are so short that we'll get bored if we don't hear a Michael Jackson or Lady Gaga song playing in the middle of whatever is happening?
4) I don't believe the novelty acts are self-generated. I don't believe 8 people heard about the AGT auditions and decided to drive to the theater in St. Louis dressed in yellow body suits so they can sing Mary Had A Little Lamb and make fools of themselves. If you can't trust something about a contest, how can you trust that the contest will be fair in the end? And I've got to believe that producers are organizing and instructing the novelty acts so they can be booed and rejected.
5) Only two types of acts are ever seen. Either they hit a home run or their eccentric. Nothing in between. I feel badly for all those hundreds of people we see lining up outside the theater at the beginning of the show who we'll never see because they don't get promoted to the next level or they're not ready to be committed to a mental institution.
6) The judges and Cannon are professionals. Why are they so heavily edited? They can't even walk out and take their seats in real time. We will get bored if we hear more than one or two sentences at a time from Stern or Mandel? The producers don't trust them to hold an audience for more than a sentence or two?
7) Why do they over-prepare Nick Cannon? He's the host, he's supposed to interview the acts backstage. So why do they have him working a puppet when there's a puppeteer on stage? Why does he have to dance behind the act when a rapper is on stage? I'm sure he's being told to do these things and handed the props like a puppet. Can't this unfold naturally?
The over-zealous producers are ruining the show.
Gregg
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1) Why is every scene so heavily edited? We never see anything happen in real time. If a talent starts to walk out on stage, suddenly he's in the middle of the stage. Then he's in the middle of a conversation with the judges, then he's in the middle of his act. Are our attention spans so short that we CAN'T watch the contestant actually WALK to the middle fo the stage?
2) Why is no camera take allowed to be more than four seconds? Not even during a tender moment when a talent is crying because the judges like him, does a camera take last more than four seconds. Watch a scene on AGT and count, one, two, three... By the time you get to four, there's a new camera shot. This all through the show, be it one hour or two hours. No scene is longer than 4 seconds.
3) Why is there extraneous music? Not the music an act might play. But in the middle of scenes, the producers have edited in music that wasn't playing at the time, often hit songs with lyrics that I guess are supposed to reflect the scene. It isn't necessary. Again, do they think our attention spans are so short that we'll get bored if we don't hear a Michael Jackson or Lady Gaga song playing in the middle of whatever is happening?
4) I don't believe the novelty acts are self-generated. I don't believe 8 people heard about the AGT auditions and decided to drive to the theater in St. Louis dressed in yellow body suits so they can sing Mary Had A Little Lamb and make fools of themselves. If you can't trust something about a contest, how can you trust that the contest will be fair in the end? And I've got to believe that producers are organizing and instructing the novelty acts so they can be booed and rejected.
5) Only two types of acts are ever seen. Either they hit a home run or their eccentric. Nothing in between. I feel badly for all those hundreds of people we see lining up outside the theater at the beginning of the show who we'll never see because they don't get promoted to the next level or they're not ready to be committed to a mental institution.
6) The judges and Cannon are professionals. Why are they so heavily edited? They can't even walk out and take their seats in real time. We will get bored if we hear more than one or two sentences at a time from Stern or Mandel? The producers don't trust them to hold an audience for more than a sentence or two?
7) Why do they over-prepare Nick Cannon? He's the host, he's supposed to interview the acts backstage. So why do they have him working a puppet when there's a puppeteer on stage? Why does he have to dance behind the act when a rapper is on stage? I'm sure he's being told to do these things and handed the props like a puppet. Can't this unfold naturally?
The over-zealous producers are ruining the show.
Gregg
[email protected]
