prosheditor
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I was a little suspicious of A&E's 'live' police ride-along show, LIVE PD, when I saw it back in 2016. Does anyone else think it's actually shot and switched live to tape and then aired later or is it really switched and aired live?
For those not familiar, this show has multiple camera crews doing police ride-alongs in several cities all supposedly shot in realtime simultaneously and switched from a central studio. More than likely they're transmitting from mobile cellular solutions and some locations seem to have two cameras for alternate angles at the same location.
But I've seen too many inconsistencies for it to be a live show such as blurred identities, beeped audio, impossible angles and timeline discrepancies between cuts, to name a few. The random pixelation noise, dropouts and freeze-frames from the mobile transmitters even look fake which is almost like adding camera-shake for dramatic effect. However, it should be noted that a perceived continuity issue of switching between day and night shots is because of different time zones in different cities.
I've shot many ride-alongs with cops for a show on cable and know how it works and what it takes to get it done, like lead-ins shot after an actual incident is shot because you never know when a call will come in so that has to be shot after but everything else was real with no retakes for inserts. LIVE PD just looks too produced to be truly live.
For those not familiar, this show has multiple camera crews doing police ride-alongs in several cities all supposedly shot in realtime simultaneously and switched from a central studio. More than likely they're transmitting from mobile cellular solutions and some locations seem to have two cameras for alternate angles at the same location.
But I've seen too many inconsistencies for it to be a live show such as blurred identities, beeped audio, impossible angles and timeline discrepancies between cuts, to name a few. The random pixelation noise, dropouts and freeze-frames from the mobile transmitters even look fake which is almost like adding camera-shake for dramatic effect. However, it should be noted that a perceived continuity issue of switching between day and night shots is because of different time zones in different cities.
I've shot many ride-alongs with cops for a show on cable and know how it works and what it takes to get it done, like lead-ins shot after an actual incident is shot because you never know when a call will come in so that has to be shot after but everything else was real with no retakes for inserts. LIVE PD just looks too produced to be truly live.