Live at tha Apollo

[brionon]

Saw this yesterday and was puzzled. The camera on Sean Lock talking and then on the audience doubled up with laughter. was there something they weren't showing us ?

[bill preston]

yeah i was a little puzzled by the American style camera shots? in all fairness they should of prejudged who the camera was going to be on as a few of the audience members looked bored out of their minds??

saying that............ i thought it was very funny!!

[andy-hughes]

It's an editing technique called 'cutting away'.

The editor takes two separate pieces of film he wishes to join, and inserts another piece of film between them, to make the cut less obvious. In a comedy routine, he will edit out some parts, and splice other parts together, using shots of the audience to link them. It does mean that the audience shot can be of something which they found hilarios, and not necessarily the piece of film that went before it. In interview sequences, these edits are done byt cutting to the interviwwer, usually noding, or in the case of Melvin Bragg, gurning like a loon, and are known as 'noddies' in the trade.

[zipadeedodah]

Just off topic ever so slightly, I didn't find Sean Lock all that funny last night. Haven't seen him do stand up before - though I do find him very funny usually on programmes like QI, 8 out of 10 cats and Have I Got News For You.

[Everhelpful]

He's good on the SCRIPTED shows,zippidedodah,but as funny as a broken leg at stand-up,Jimmy Carr and Ross Noble are exactly the same.!!