Olympic Opening Ceremonies
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http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.ht...hd_ocb_hl_en197
a couple of survey questions and you are good to go (NBC website)
a couple of survey questions and you are good to go (NBC website)
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the opening was the craziest ceremony I have ever seen.
too bad the 29 steps were faked but it was still amazing:
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/beijing-...works-2558.html
too bad the 29 steps were faked but it was still amazing:
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/beijing-...works-2558.html
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Originally Posted by tcho82,Aug 11 2008, 02:08 PM
Wow. Can't believe they faked that. Quite interesting they'd fake fireworks of all things, and the fact that they broadcast it as the real thing is quite odd.
For one it looked obviously CGI, since the camera was moving at 1000 miles an hour, and the fireworks moved way too fast.
Also NBC's announcer clearly stated that it was a generated "cinematic effect" to give the illusion of the steps, the final one being real and arriving at the stadium.
Considering the fantasy speed and angle of the camera and the fact it was clearly announced to be NOT REAL and a cinematic effect, you had to totally fail to pay attention to miss that.
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Hah, the wonderful effect of word of mouth news being misinterpreted. Looks like the Epoch Times editor read the story on Telegraph and misinterpreted it. See the original source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/otherspor...ints-faked.html
"The fireworks were there for real, outside the stadium. But those responsible for filming the extravaganza decided in advance it would be impossible to capture all 29 footprints from the air.
As a result, only the last, visible from the camera stands inside the Bird's Nest was captured on film."
That means the firework of the foot prints was REAL. It wasn't possible to capture it from an aerial view, so it was done in CG. Only the last one that was visible from inside the Bird's Nest was captured.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/otherspor...ints-faked.html
"The fireworks were there for real, outside the stadium. But those responsible for filming the extravaganza decided in advance it would be impossible to capture all 29 footprints from the air.
As a result, only the last, visible from the camera stands inside the Bird's Nest was captured on film."
That means the firework of the foot prints was REAL. It wasn't possible to capture it from an aerial view, so it was done in CG. Only the last one that was visible from inside the Bird's Nest was captured.
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Originally Posted by PrimoGen,Aug 11 2008, 04:35 PM
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.ht...hd_ocb_hl_en197
a couple of survey questions and you are good to go (NBC website)
a couple of survey questions and you are good to go (NBC website)
any other sources? i guess i can google or something.
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Fireworks apparently was not the only thing.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/1...kids/index.html
It's not so much that it wasn't her singing. It's the reason why.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/1...kids/index.html
It's not so much that it wasn't her singing. It's the reason why.
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I don't think we'll ever see this kind of opening cermony in the future. The amount of money spent, time and effort put into it, and people involved were mind-boggling.
Anyway, I was never a big fan of Olympics. But heck, I sat there and watched through the thing was was truly amazed.
Anyway, I was never a big fan of Olympics. But heck, I sat there and watched through the thing was was truly amazed.
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[QUOTE=bcs,Aug 12 2008, 09:09 AM] Fireworks apparently was not the only thing.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/1...kids/index.html
It's not so much that it wasn't her singing.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/1...kids/index.html
It's not so much that it wasn't her singing.
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Originally Posted by 565565,Aug 12 2008, 04:24 PM
The reason being she couldn't sing well enough?
Sounds like a good reason to me.
China could have done the American route and just had her lipsync to a digitally created voice instead ala every single american pop star, but they choose to have her lip sync to the real voice of another girl.
Face it, China is just learning from the masters of this kind of stuff, America. None of these American teenie boppers can sing worth a damn, they are just selected because they looked cute, Britney spears, the Simpson Sisters, Miley Cyrus, etc etc. It is all about looks when it comes to female singers. How many fugly and successful female pop singers can you name? At least the girl that did sang actually got to have her voice her by billions, versus the thousands of ugly girls that sing like goddesses in America that just wither away in school accapella groups.
Looks like China's just trying to follow the leader of lip synching.
Sounds like a good reason to me.
China could have done the American route and just had her lipsync to a digitally created voice instead ala every single american pop star, but they choose to have her lip sync to the real voice of another girl.
Face it, China is just learning from the masters of this kind of stuff, America. None of these American teenie boppers can sing worth a damn, they are just selected because they looked cute, Britney spears, the Simpson Sisters, Miley Cyrus, etc etc. It is all about looks when it comes to female singers. How many fugly and successful female pop singers can you name? At least the girl that did sang actually got to have her voice her by billions, versus the thousands of ugly girls that sing like goddesses in America that just wither away in school accapella groups.
Looks like China's just trying to follow the leader of lip synching.
They had one girl sing a song and try to pass that off as the voice of a different girl. How is that the same?