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I believe the creative 'editing' and camera work is part of a movement by
JP television to be more 'Westernized' and to mimic the same terrible,
uninteresting, dizzying effects and angles that one of our more popular 'kids'
station (aka: MTV and YTV) used to use,..but have since taken heed and reduced
the intensity of using such imagery.
It's a real shame since budgets are now no longer spent in co-ordinating how,
where, when, angles, etc. will be used during a performance recording,...and
to the camera-persons dismay that they are told by the art director to just
"get something EDGY"...  The end result is video footage as what you have 
described....soul-less and confusing to the eye.

A real let-down 'specially since I was looking so forward to seeing this one
on DVD.

Maybe one day scientists will be able to take a photographic dump of your 
memory so that we can all see it the way it was meant to be seen.  :P

Doogie.

Date:10/19/1998. Shopgirl 's message 

>Last night I watched the Seiko Live 2003 Tour on Perfec TV channel. 
>
>It was the most disappointing to the point of almost disgusting piece of live 
>recording I have ever seen. There were several cameras at used, but the editing 
>was even worse than being ameteurish.
>
>The result was you have simply a recording that did not capture not one bit of 
>the Live Tour. Not only will you not see or even imagine the response of the 
>crowd to the performance on stage, you will also even not get to see the actual 
>stage and setting effects for any particular songs because of the weird angle 
>shots which the "#$(6sf'f%' editor "creatively cut.
>
>What a waste, because there was so much great coordination among the performer, 
>the lighting, settings, and the visuals to each song particularly Ringoshu no 
>Hibi, Chameleon, Sweet Memories, and Natsuno Tobira. And these big four was the 
>most climax of this entire Tour or to be precise the last 3yrs we have had of Seiko. 
>
>I was even hoping to buy this DVD as presents, but not anymore. This tour is 
>only in memory unfortunately.
>
>Real big time shame to all three: TBS broadcasting station, Sony and Fantic Management!!!!
>
>Shopgirl