Today I watched a program on the Discovery Channel called "Before the Dinosaurs" or something like that. It was really interesting, and certainly more informative than yesterday's Iron Chef marathon that took up my evening. They kept doing this one thing though, that I couldn't get over. I get bothered by the silliest things sometimes (recognizing this is the first step, right?).
So, being about our world millions of years ago, it was almost completely computer generated. Maybe some computer generated animals added into some stock film. Anyway, the key idea being: not real. I'm okay with that. And I appreciate the effort they made in making it interesting to watch, and as realistic as they know how. But they kept having the non-existant animals interact with the non-existant camera. I don't get that.
If you're having trouble understand what I'm saying here are some examples... At one point a giant scorpion "attacks" the "camera" and "breaks" it (I'll lose the quotation marks now, but you get the point). Then a fish swims by and it coming so close, shakes the camera. A poor computer generated animal's blood spatters the lens, and another animal fogs it up when getting too close. The most eyebrow raising one occurred when a curious lizard sniffed at the camera.
I think this is weird. More than that though, it was very distracting which a program like this probably isn't striving for. Maybe the animators were just having some fun? Anyone else with an opinion on this?
2 comments:
I don't blame you for being irritated. Something like that isn't just dumb, but it is the quickest way they could remind you that it is all fake--jarring you from the story.
Ha! How silly is that? It is just put in there for effect. I got excited last night because I found a channel called History Channel INTERNATIONAL...LOL! I guess this is different than the regular History Channel? I dont know. But it was a program on the "Little Ice Age". I guess I wasn't paying attention in school. I thought there was just one Ice Age...LOL!
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