Wembley editing sucked

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Tlr wrote:

Seems to be a thing with Queen productions. Just about everything every documentary is a series of three second clips spliced together. It was particularly bad in the DoRo stuff but persists today. What's wrong with having the same person on screen for a few minutes, relaying an anecdote un interrupted?!

It should be noted that DoRo only do that kind of thing in their work with Queen - their work for other artists is of much higher quality. Which begs the question - is Queen / their management responsible for those dodgy calls?

I'm not aware that I have ever seen anything by DoRo that wasn't Queen related so I would guess based on what you said that it's a Queen decision as even the Days of Our Lives doc suffered from it.

Interesting though that the most moving bit of that, for me, was Brian telling the story of Madison Square Gardens which was presented in a more cohesive way.

I take comfort in the fact that I've seen much worse editing on other releases (not Queen related).

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Tlr wrote:

Seems to be a thing with Queen productions. Just about everything every documentary is a series of three second clips spliced together. It was particularly bad in the DoRo stuff but persists today. What's wrong with having the same person on screen for a few minutes, relaying an anecdote un interrupted?!

It should be noted that DoRo only do that kind of thing in their work with Queen - their work for other artists is of much higher quality. Which begs the question - is Queen / their management responsible for those dodgy calls?

Dodgy calls? Or is it because Queen are tight as f*** with money?

I think (in the case of concert recordings) it stems from the fact that the cameras run at a different speed to the sound recording (multitracks) so if the visuals were to run for, let's say more than 30secs at a time for arguments sake, the visual would then be out of phase with the sound ie. they would not be running in sync. I believe this was mentioned in the director's commentary in the re-release of the 'We Will Rock You' DVD in the US (the original Live In Montreal release).

DoRo directed a Bowie concert film called Ov Vey Baby (with Tin Machine) in 1991. It's very of it's time shall we say, but nothing too bad - only a couple of give away filler shots taken from different parts of the concert.

The DoRo Queen work (the I Want It All intro on Rare Live, or those montage clips on Magic Years where it's all synced up to look like they're playing the song) was pretty cool at the time. I never had a problem with it. Some of it is still cool and has been copied by the more recent documentaries.