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Originally Posted by alwayscall_
i disagree with him. i watch these episodes because i am interested in the story of their backgrounds and anecdotes they tell about things that happen/ed behind the scenes. i dont watch it to see whatever place they hung around when they were 17 in their freetime., and i feel like they cannot go deep into the topics or focus when walking around outside being interviewed.
but yes, a good mix is always nice
and great work to all the team, fantastic production
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Originally Posted by rdedrde1
Thank you for the feedback and the info.
That was the episode I was discussing and I did enjoy it.
I just felt visually there could be so much more done. (And I’m not trying to be negative.)
You go all the way to Monte Carlo, show it!
On the same track, you interview another poker player who happens to be from your home town. I’m from the uk, I’ve never been there. Let me see some more of it!
I agree with both of these comments. It's funny because 20%+ of the running time in the Patrik episodes is actually spent outside his office, but there are segments there (especially in ep 3) that always felt way too static to me.
I don't want to use time constraints as an excuse too much -- I mean yeah, like two weeks before we were in Monaco filming we still thought we'd be filming the entire S1 at the WSOP in Vegas with a completely different script / people, but it is what it is -- because honestly, when something feels too static there are always ways to fix it. With Patrik we did run out of time and basically had to choose between running around Monaco with him, which almost certainly would've downgraded the depth of the conversation by a lot, or sitting down with him at his office and downgrading on the visual side. Choosing between those two I think we made the right call, but looking forward I think we need to do a better job on the narrative side to keep things moving along a bit faster and avoid static scenes.
I think we actually did a much better job pacing-wise on ep #1, which is funny because that whole ep is *actually* spent indoors. The technique where we keep the interviewees separate works really well, and I have a narrative solution in mind for the future where I think we could have a similar approach to that, but still improve on the pacing even more.
What's really nice is that I think our format allows for doing episodes without forcing the same structure over and over again. On S2 I'd like to see us doing episodes with varying amounts of traveling/visual material -- if we have, say, Ziigmund on the show, I think it would be a crime to waste it by touring his favorite pizza places and talk about his favorite toppings. But if we are traveling in exotic country X for something poker related... let's show said country and tone down the poker a bit.