Post by MaybeNext on Mar 16, 2004 22:42:52 GMT 10
Gossips, Guy and the Idols
16 March 2004
By JANE BOWRON
What's with the camera operator on TV One's new gossip show, Headliners?
It's as if the camera has been locked on one position for half an hour and the operator has sloped off for an early dinner at the staff cafeteria.
Presenters Jason Reeves and Renee Wright are captured frozen in one pose for the entire show as they try to appear relaxed, chatty and merrily rivalrous but their rigid body language says it all.
It seems so static not to even attempt a close up for the one-dimensional camera work gives the presenters a lifeless mannequin quality. Headliners has given the viewer a brand new Ken and Barbie couple to goggle at before the women's mags get their dibs on them and we can't even get a decent squizz at them.
Renee looks a bit Catherine Zeta Jonesish and Jason looks like the next best thing since Darren McDonald minus the glittering eyes but they're oh so far away.
The best thing about Headliners is that it doesn't have Charlotte Dawson in it.
Time was you couldn't open a publication or switch on the set without copping the thoughts and opinions of New Zealand's most over- exposed It girl.
How's her life now that How's Life has died? She's bound to turn up somewhere on the box perhaps selling loo paper like Leah Panapa or maybe she'll be one of the guest judges on NZ Idol.
Sunday night's 90-minute special of the greatest show on earth was frankly disappointing.
Not one arm hair stood up as the fab 10 trotted out their favourite ditties but didn't the 'fro (Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian) go showing up the judges by demonstrating how things are done when you enter this stage of the game?
With a live audience of 400 screamers surrounding them, the judges were out of their comfort zone and needed to show more 'joosh' as judge Paul is wont to say.
Guy exuded energy and was polite enough to appear as if he really was getting off on the buzz of a live audience though God knows he must have written the book on the Idol format by now.
Like an old pro and in the great word of a former Aussie Idol judge, Guy had the audience unisoning "Touchdown" and it appeared that the Kiwi crowd were graduates of L'ecole Hi De Hi.
The yell monitor indicated that Camillia was the night's favourite, the wild card girl in violent lemon underwhelmed with a Bic Runga rip-off and Luke got a right old telling off from old Ma McDonald (Fiona).
She told him he was in danger of being a one-trick pony and would be consigned to a career in karaoke if he didn't show some tenderness in his rendition of some well-known song I've completely forgotten the name of.
Actually I kind of hope he'll win because he's such a huggable teddy bear and I'm mad keen on big Dave and terribly impressed by Mike the little squirt with the big voice.
I see Robin's stuck with his Gilbert O'Sullivan cap and has a Leo Sayer feeling about him and the judges sure think he's got what it takes but Luke's got the biggest charisma.
I haven't seen such a killer smile like that since Winston Peters first flashed his tusks.
I know the kids all think the show's stylist is cooler than autumn but she makes some of them look like sore thumbs.
A little less of the accessories and a little more attention to disguising figure faults would be more helpful to contestants. Perhaps they should devise an Idol costume or uniform to things fair.
Imagine big Dave in grey flannel shorts, the Sheilas in gymslips and a mandatory paper bag over all heads with a slit cut in the bottom for the cake hole. I think it would look very fetching.
16 March 2004
By JANE BOWRON
What's with the camera operator on TV One's new gossip show, Headliners?
It's as if the camera has been locked on one position for half an hour and the operator has sloped off for an early dinner at the staff cafeteria.
Presenters Jason Reeves and Renee Wright are captured frozen in one pose for the entire show as they try to appear relaxed, chatty and merrily rivalrous but their rigid body language says it all.
It seems so static not to even attempt a close up for the one-dimensional camera work gives the presenters a lifeless mannequin quality. Headliners has given the viewer a brand new Ken and Barbie couple to goggle at before the women's mags get their dibs on them and we can't even get a decent squizz at them.
Renee looks a bit Catherine Zeta Jonesish and Jason looks like the next best thing since Darren McDonald minus the glittering eyes but they're oh so far away.
The best thing about Headliners is that it doesn't have Charlotte Dawson in it.
Time was you couldn't open a publication or switch on the set without copping the thoughts and opinions of New Zealand's most over- exposed It girl.
How's her life now that How's Life has died? She's bound to turn up somewhere on the box perhaps selling loo paper like Leah Panapa or maybe she'll be one of the guest judges on NZ Idol.
Sunday night's 90-minute special of the greatest show on earth was frankly disappointing.
Not one arm hair stood up as the fab 10 trotted out their favourite ditties but didn't the 'fro (Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian) go showing up the judges by demonstrating how things are done when you enter this stage of the game?
With a live audience of 400 screamers surrounding them, the judges were out of their comfort zone and needed to show more 'joosh' as judge Paul is wont to say.
Guy exuded energy and was polite enough to appear as if he really was getting off on the buzz of a live audience though God knows he must have written the book on the Idol format by now.
Like an old pro and in the great word of a former Aussie Idol judge, Guy had the audience unisoning "Touchdown" and it appeared that the Kiwi crowd were graduates of L'ecole Hi De Hi.
The yell monitor indicated that Camillia was the night's favourite, the wild card girl in violent lemon underwhelmed with a Bic Runga rip-off and Luke got a right old telling off from old Ma McDonald (Fiona).
She told him he was in danger of being a one-trick pony and would be consigned to a career in karaoke if he didn't show some tenderness in his rendition of some well-known song I've completely forgotten the name of.
Actually I kind of hope he'll win because he's such a huggable teddy bear and I'm mad keen on big Dave and terribly impressed by Mike the little squirt with the big voice.
I see Robin's stuck with his Gilbert O'Sullivan cap and has a Leo Sayer feeling about him and the judges sure think he's got what it takes but Luke's got the biggest charisma.
I haven't seen such a killer smile like that since Winston Peters first flashed his tusks.
I know the kids all think the show's stylist is cooler than autumn but she makes some of them look like sore thumbs.
A little less of the accessories and a little more attention to disguising figure faults would be more helpful to contestants. Perhaps they should devise an Idol costume or uniform to things fair.
Imagine big Dave in grey flannel shorts, the Sheilas in gymslips and a mandatory paper bag over all heads with a slit cut in the bottom for the cake hole. I think it would look very fetching.
