Olympics-Live T.V. Fakery!

[Wildy]

Oh well, at least we know that the pretty girl probably won't go down the same path as Nikki Webster.

 

[The Fool]

Its ok folks, The Chinese Government has announced that to put things right they are going to have surgeons combine the best bits of both girls. This super child will be used as a template for all future Chinese TV stars. The leftover bits will be used to construct a dumpy little girl who can't sing. She will be playing Brittney Spears in an upcoming movie.

 

[gtc]

The leftover bits will be used to construct a dumpy little girl who can't sing. She will be playing Brittney Spears in an upcoming movie.

I tip my hat.

 

[ohp]

What I find strange is that I had assumed that was a pre-generated sequence, I would have been surprised to learn it was live!

Glad to see I'm not the only one. The miming by the child was truly awful as well, and the idea that they chose the voice and the kid separately doesn't surprise me... that's what they did for the voice of Darth Vader isn't it?

 

[Darat]

You mean that projection screen on the ceiling was not a window? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked to find that special effects are taking place on TV!View attachment 11676

You'll want to sit down for this one - the people were not in fact flying! They were on ropes!

 

[Wolfman]

You'll want to sit down for this one - the people were not in fact flying! They were on ropes!

That is a lie propagated by imperialist American CIA agents. They were flying...the ropes were just there to protect them if their powers of flight happened to fail them. Just like the safety lines that a mountain climber uses.

 

[Ladewig]

I have no idea.

The point is to remember that LIVE T.V. may at any point now be infused with CGI fakery.

At least have the courage to say what you really mean. Your response shows that you are a coward.

 

[JEROME DA GNOME]

At least have the courage to say what you really mean. Your response shows that you are a coward.

 

[Darat]

In other words Jerome Da Gnome - don't make snide comments or comments that you are relying on people to infer something - just come out and say what you want to imply in plain speech. That way you can have an actual discussion about what interests you rather than seemingly being perpetually misunderstood. It's of course it's your call so if you don't want to have your own views and conclusions discussed in a public forum than of course continue to post in the way you have done in this thread.

 

[Ladewig]

I have no idea.

The point is to remember that LIVE T.V. may at any point now be infused with CGI fakery.

If you started a thread with the sole purpose of pointing out that LIVE [sic] TV can be infused with CGI, then you are simply cluttering the forum with unimportant observations

 

[Francesca R]

Is the logic here: "Because we observe this happening once, it may be happening all over the place ("at any point, now"), yet before we had observed it the first time, we could be confident that it did not happen"?

That would be faulty logic.

 

[alfaniner]

Football games and the current Olympic swimming matches are incorporating CGI live all the time. (the scrimmage lines on the field and the World Record pace line).

 

[Whiplash]

Hell, the NFL had the yellow lines on the field for several years already too.

 

[Luciana]

And the Equator line? Did you guys hear it's also fiction??

 

[Rob Lister]

Hell, the NFL had the yellow lines on the field for several years already too.

Actually, IMS, FOX was the pioneer of that technology (and a tip of the hat to them for that).

 

[Rob Lister]

And the Equator line? Did you guys hear it's also fiction??

Maybe, but the North and the South pole are very real.

 

[steve s]

On some baseball broadcasts they use CGI advertisements behind homeplate, instead of the scrolling type used at most parks. The people at the park only see a blank (blue or green) pad behind the plate.

Did they actually use CGI at the Olympics or did they just edit in some prerecorded scenes. An article I read said it was the latter. The Chinese were afraid that the sky wouldn't be clear enough for distant shots of the fireworks so they prerecorded some footage on a clear night.

Steve S.

 

[NotJesus]

It's all fake, I tells ya. Yao Ming is really 5' 11", two of China's female gymnasts are really overweight Frenchmen and Michael Phelps is scared of water.

 

[bruto]

Football games and the current Olympic swimming matches are incorporating CGI live all the time. (the scrimmage lines on the field and the World Record pace line).

I thought there were little gnomes running along the edge of the pool, with a big length of green string.

 

[Foolmewunz]

And they have a crew of Lloyd Bridges' sons to go under the water and paint those flags onto the lane bottoms at the end of the swim races, too. And they work so fast, you never even get a glimpse at 'em.

I remember the first time I saw a rugby game after they started painting big adverts on the field. I thought it was CGI, 'cuz the ads are angled to fit the camera movement from the midfield position, obviously for the TV viewer. About twenty minutes into the game I remember thinking how crappy it was that they only had one ad and didn't change it through the whole game. I figured they either had a rich sponsor who demanded exclusivity or had trouble drawing sponsors. And then some guy gets tackled and gets up with half the logo on his jersey.