You had time to watch that? I was here on CB.
Didn't even know it was on. Still probably wouldn't have watched it. But, for my edification, what are the "cues" that you are talking about? Were they attempting to make it appear that they were broadcasting behind the scenes as well?
Not sure how that show gets anyone to buy their stuff. But advertising in general has always baffled me. The models are nice to look at.
Here's a link.
I watched for a few minutes... purely for educational purposes of course. I'm convinced that those calls were completely fake. Randomly you would hear stuff like, "34 models in the house", "the most beautiful women in the world are all here", calling out which model is up next and what they are wearing, at about 2:30 there is "standing bye fly cue 40..." but I don't see anything fly. FAKE! No real self respecting SM working at that sort of level would provide us that kind of constant inane commentary about how the girls look coming and going from the stage. I found it so annoying I couldn't watch it any more.
Yes, you know you have worked on too many shows when annoying fake SM calls make you turn off a lingerie fashion show.
okay, to me it was a design element, they were going for the whole, backstage, dark corner, underground look for their show. To me everyone is looking at this from the wrong angle similar to the whole "never show your stage lights" idea. The whole setup was made to look like the theater design, probably going off of the popularity of glee and the new movie Burlesque.
Its a style that they wanted the viewers at home to experience not just the famous celebrities and fashion designers in the studio.
But it was really irritating when you know what an SM really does. Now everyone is going to think that giving fashion advice is what a SM does during a show. If I was the real SM who worked that show I would be more than a little upset of how my work is being characterized.
are you trying to say you have never heard headset chatter during a show before? I don't think i can remember doing a show that didn't have chatter that would be judging what people were wearing. most of the time it wasn't even supposed to look good
I keep trying to reply to this, but am always distracted.
Anyway,
I'm torn on this one. On one hand, I think it was kind of cool that they did it, and can definitely see where they were going artistically with it. They wanted it to seem more "backstage-y" and probably to fill up aural empty spaces in the broadcast. Personally, the show would be pretty boring if I wasn't looking at the technical elements or listening to some drivel between the introductions of various outfits.
On the other hand, the way they characterized the chatter was quite annoying after the first five minutes. Sure, you will have reactions to what is going on onstage and might occasionally overhear a "good job" from the SM or someone, but it got very irritating very quickly.
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