Media mistakes

EEPhil said:
What with drones and those cameras on cables above football pitches (and probably elsewhere) we may be getting too close to the action.
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The shots are mostly $h!t3 too, being massively wide-angle, and are over-used, probably by trendy young directors who want to use the latest whizzy thing regardless of merit. Traditionally positioned cameras on tripods etc. cover things a lot better most of the time. Strange that ain't it, decades of experience triumphing.
The batsman hits a ball, it's heading in the air towards the boundary and splat it hits a drone, how many runs?
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Should be 10, for extreme skill and positioning.
Or, it hits the drone and a fielder catches it.
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The ball or the drone?
Is the batsman out? With a bit of luck the drone will be out.
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No, but hopefully the drone is smashed into the (old fashioned) boundary fence, not the stupid modern boundary sponge thing positioned a ridiculous distance inside it.
 
prpr said:
Drone crashes in to a hurdle about 6 min. in from the start of the Athletics this morning.
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Around 10 years ago Marcel Hirscher (world cup slalom skier) narrowly missed being hit very hard by a falling drone (
). Drones were banned for a number of years afterwards as a result but subsequently re-introduced. To be fair in that particular sport - especially the speed events - they do capture some great footage allowing you to appreciate the skier's skill and speed.
 
Imagine what could happen when the same people riding illegal e-scooters and e-bikes decide to start buying Temu personal transport drones!
 
Wasn't there a camera on a wire that covered some of the sliding down the ice on a tea tray (skeleton etc.) during the winter Olympics? The shots from that were reasonable, until it veered off.
 
EEPhil said:
Wasn't there a camera on a wire that covered some of the sliding down the ice on a tea tray (skeleton etc.) during the winter Olympics? The shots from that were reasonable, until it veered off.
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Glad I'm not the only one that calls it tea tray racing.
 
Black Hole said:
What the heck is a costume shop? Would I call it a fancy dress shop??
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Might depend on the context. Wikipedia writes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costume_shop
A costume shop is a space where costumes for theatrical or film productions are designed, built, and stored for the company or production.
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but my immediate thought was fancy dress.

Anyway, it's a moot point. What we really want to know is what is coshtume shop ?
 
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But this harps back to the previous discussion on what comprises a "shop". A "space where theatrical costumes and made" is a workshop, not a shop (so far as UK is concerned), so I am still bemused what Warhurst was on about.
 
prpr said:
concept
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Conshept?
Black Hole said:
A "space where theatrical costumes and made" is a workshop, not a shop (so far as UK is concerned), so I a
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The difficulty is that film & TV studios in the UK have areas called shops as well as areas called workshops. Elstree has a spray shop, plaster shops, carpenter shops and print shop. It also has a workshop. If it had a costume area, there isn't one on the map I found, would it be a shop or a workshop? :dunno:
 
Remembering the slave costume I once wore in a school production of The Mikado that was definitely not fancy dress. I remember being a bit upset at the time that all the other slaves had much fancier costumes than mine. :(
 
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