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Cat6, on 09 April 2013 - 11:08 PM, said:
The cinema showing should be good. I only went to one such event, but I liked it mainly because the camera was allowed to move in on the singers (it was an opera) or frame the part of the stage where the action was taking place. I would not like it if the camera were static and showing the full stage the entire time. I also liked knowing that the action was taking place in real time. That it was remote, and yet I could see it hundreds of miles away was cool :-)
Should be great because I can't imagine there's much for a director choosing shots to get wrong. I saw an NT production at the cinema that was well done, but recently saw a Very odd War of The Worlds. The director/editor there had cottoned on that the acting/story wasn't great but the percussionist and the guitar players were very talented and watchable - but then spoilt it by constantly cutting sharply between actors, the guitars and Julia Thornton the percussionist - line, pluck, strum, bang, line was alarming to watch.
