Tuesday, February 5, 2008

LIVE CARNIVAL

And what happened to the Carnival coverage after 1pm Monday??
CNMG had been running a ticker tape over the re-run of the Dimanche Gras show saying they would have live coverage from 1pm, but they never did go live until close to 2 o'clock.
TV6 went to live coverage of the African Cup of Nations.

Finally when we saw video on CNMG, there were two cameras pointing in the same direction, and we never saw the person talking over the video. She probably introduced herself at the beginning of the broadcast, but for those who joined you late, we had no clue who she was. Worse when she was interviewing representatives of the various bands, we never once saw her or the interviewees on camera.
Steups!
This went on for hours. You could have at least sent a reporter into the crowd to do some interviews to break up the monotony of us staring at the bands all day long.
Who was your producer?

And C, what about Carnival coverage out of Tobago? We can't recall seeing any live or recorded shots from Scarborough or Roxborough. What's up with that?

Well we did catch a glimpse of Sasha Mohammed (with what looked like maroon hair) around 5:15. We are not sure if it was a live shot, because as soon as her interview finished, we saw shots of Karen Cozier-Phillip interviewing several different people, one after the other. That had to have been recorded, but we did see the TV6 live super at the bottom of the screen.
You need to let your viewers know if an interview was recorded earlier. Don't mislead them.
Then again, if Fabian Pierre and his producer knew that there would be live inserts during the day, then they should have scripted that at the end of the 12pm newscast so that when your viewers saw the football they would not have switched permanently to CNMG.
But then again, why watch pre-recorded or even live inserts for a few seconds when they can get live coverage all day long?