Ishina Fel
Caldari
Synergy.
Imperial Republic Of the North
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Posted - 2007.06.23 15:54:00 -
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I used the 1000kbps stream. I was able to watch the entire show without the slightest hiccup; in fact, by the time I was through half of it, the entire video had long since finished precaching. To all those who got buffering issues... I seriously doubt the problem lies on Jalipo's side this time 
Thanks to the high bitrate the image quality was quite good, I watched fullscreen at 1680x1050 and had no noticeable pixellation effects or other problems. I merely noticed that the background graphics you were using could do with a little higher texture resolution - especially during the Hellmar interview there was an exceptionally muddled piece of texture thingy right in the middle between him and spiral. And maybe some animations, like blinking lights and moving parts? And, are you sure the table isn't a little cramped for four people to sit on at once? The table used during the last tournament had more room on it and around it, which in my opinion allowed for better close-ups of single guests in the group. Of course, it might just be that everyone wanted to be close to Kasumi  However I'm making the studio set seem worse than it is, so don't take me too serious here.
As pointed out before, microphone values need some adjusting. Dressing the hosts in black and then using bright lighting and light grey backgrounds kind of makes them look a bit too serious and sterile (unrelated to their attempts to act professional and present facts in a neutral manner, I mean. That succeeed well enough in my opinion). Maybe get a bit more dynamic with the camera angles. I also missed a sort of splash screen when cutting between different studio sets and reports, like the little video sequence that was used at the third alliance tournament... it would add some more dynamic feel. But it probably would have to be a very very short splash screen, else it would bloat up the episode length too much.
The dip into the Hellmar interview was too long - presenting one interesting sample question (or better, a collection of specific quotes cut together) and then moving on with the show would have been better. The interview itself was rather static... it does better as a stand-alone, and watched by those who are really interested in it. Without doubt he had some very interesting things to say, but in watching EVE-TV I was looking more for event reports and the alliance profile, and thus I felt that the interview sequence took a few minutes too long.
The time could have been better used for the Scrapheap Challenge report, which went past too quickly. Maybe a minute or two of actual combat after jumping through a gate and engaging hostiles, with the teamspeak recording in the background, would have been very interesting.
The preview on the London Player Meet report was done better. It had several fast cuts through different scenes, and succeeded much better in giving a general overview and summary than an uncut sequence grabbed somewhere from in the middle of it ever could. It was especially interesting to see the extremely wide array of different people that attended.
The alliance profile was very well done. Next week I want to see Outbreak. Or IRON. Or IAC, but only when they're all completely smashed drunk
A suggestion that I have regarding the news... Skornik says the show is produced on Wednesdays, so they aren't very up-to-date when broadcasted on Saturday. Would it be possible to intentionally leave a short blank in the Wednesday production where a sort of 'breaking news' bit could be inserted if something special happened in the days afetrwards? This bit could be recorded on Friday afternoon, wouldn't take more than a minute and would only need a single host presenting the news without much else around it. Then it could seamlessly fit into the preproduced show. And if there was nothing worth reporting, the show could just be broadcasted as is instead.
Overall it was nice to watch, and I look forward to future shows.
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