Superbowl ... all the angles

Superbowl. So many things come to mind. Some think football, some think commercials, or parties and others think oh that thing with the half time show... but very few would think work. Yes, for many it is work you just don't think about it all that often. For the players and coaches it is work. For the stadium employees its work but even more still for the anchors, camera men and producers at FOX its one of the biggest days of the year. And for me studying broadcasting i found The Superbowl in a whole new light.
After being a Broadcast major and learning all the ins and outs of the industry TV and Movies are pretty much ruined for you. At least that is the way it is for me. You start paying attention to how programs are sequenced, different camera shots, and anchor posture and things like that. There no need to even say sometimes its just hard to watch tv after understanding how it all works.
Well at any rate, the whole reason i am saying all this is because this year was very interesting to watch the Superbowl. I sat at my aunts and uncles party and watched as the camera gave these interesting shots. Most of them were quite good. There was a shot when the marines were playing the drums and it was take from down low and to the side and had just great composition to it! i was so excited.. yes i do excited about things like that. Then there was another great reaction shot of Jordan Sparks before she sang the National Anthem and you could tell she was incredibly nervous. (she did an amazing job but that is a side note) I felt like the sequencing was great and everything was just looking so good and then all of a sudden there was this awful shot it was similar to the one i liked so well earlier but much more drastic. It was straight up into the face of the marine. But it had no compositional value. Nothing was on the third and the angle was so steep you saw mostly ceiling... which the vectors there just didn't do anything for the shot. I was shocked .. i actually think i spoke the words "that is awful" out loud. I was just surprised but other then that i think that it was a good try .. just not quite on. There were two other problems that i had with the superbowl and it wasn't the commercials.
The first problem was with the anchors. They were just boring.. and no personality. The Half time people were fine but the actual hosts were just .. odd i guess. The only other thing that i had a problem with is that they cut off a few commercials before the guy in the commercial was done talking. The whole thing was just awkward but I can imagine that they have so many commercials that they have to play that they have to be on top of it. Overall i thought it was a very good game and show!