Orange and Blue Folk

Subject: Orange and Blue Folk
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 06:47 PM

Has anybody noticed in the last few years the special cameras they have for TV Folk? It doesnt matter if it's Shetlands: pehaps Ian Carr accompanying Aly Bain. Maybe a big Celtic Connections session in Glasgow, with Ian Carr accompanying Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain. Perhaps the South Bank, with Ian Carr accompanying Kate Rusbie and Phil Cunningham. Or Cambridge Folk Festival, with Eliza and Martin Carthy accompanying Ian Carr.
It's always shot with this weird camera that only picks out orange and blue colours. Even when it heads into to the audience for a moment, and there's this bloke with long hair holding hands with a woman with long hair, and they are are nodding along. They still have orange and blue faces, hair and clothes. What's going on on,eh?

Subject: RE: Orange and Blue Folk
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 07:05 PM

It might be the camera, it might be your TV, or it might be amateur (however you spell that)lighting at the venue.

Or it could be that a lot of orange and blue extraterrestrials are coming to folk concerts, where the music is more enjoyable than at home. After all, no astrophysicists have ever picked up any indications of melody, harmony or rhythm from space.

Well, there are pulsars...

Subject: RE: Orange and Blue Folk
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 02:41 AM

Greg-I reckon your telly is busted, you should ring the telly people up, and tell them to fix it.
or get a new one, there is one in argos for 50 quid, [but give your neebours adress or the telly licence people will hassle you!

is that how you spell adress? looks a bit wired!

Subject: RE: Orange and Blue Folk
From: English Jon
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:49 AM

Cameraman is a luton town fan, obviously.

Jon

Subject: RE: Orange and Blue Folk
From: greg stephens
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:15 AM

No it's not my TV, JOhn. It's a new fashion in lighting and filming, not only used for music. I think I first noticed in a documenrary about the author Patrick O'Brian, when the south of France was photographed in this rather stylised orange and blue fashion. But it is paricularly commonly used for festival music. Everything is not lilterally ornge and blue, but the filming emphasises those colours strongly. I have noticed it is already going out of fashion in msinstream TV, but is still hanging in there in any footage related to Rusby, Carr or members of the Carthyson dynasty.