New television coverage for ARC

[Livewireshock]

The first edition of the new coverage has appeared on Channel Ten today. Just curious as to what the opinion of all & sundry was.

First impression is obviously the copycat format from the WRC coverage. Even down to the theme music & title styling. The wording & narration is straight out of the same handbook too.

In essence, there is no endless face to camera comments & thus more rally action on screen. The biggest downfall I saw was the fact that not even the top 5 cars received coverage. Kaitler came home 5th for the weekend and I can not recall seeing one shot of his car at all.

One redeeming call was the teams logos being included in the result screen shots. Just a minor thing but it counts, although I am not sure I need to see a lingering shot of a rock or railway line while the results are shown. Plus I know Ford & Toyota are bankrolling the shrinking tv budget but surely all drivers that make the top 10 deserve a passing two second shot at least.

All up an improvement but far from perfect. Not bad since the TV crews have shrunk from 7 to 3 on the ground to obtain footage.

[GlenW]

First impression is obviously the copycat format from the WRC coverage. Even down to the theme music & title styling. The wording & narration is straight out of the same handbook too.

The new ARC telecast team is from the same production house that does the WRC coverage, hence the same formula.

[GigiGalliNo1]

ohhhhh......well i started watching later that night when it was aired in perth, and finnished if off today and it did catch my attention but then i lost interest i don't know why, thought it was a wrc rip off with a slightly boring series but then again the fiesta and corolla s2000's sound like beasts so i'll be at the next rally for media

[Livewireshock]

ohhhhh......well i started watching later that night when it was aired in perth, and finnished if off today and it did catch my attention but then i lost interest i don't know why, thought it was a wrc rip off with a slightly boring series but then again the fiesta and corolla s2000's sound like beasts so i'll be at the next rally for media

The budget for the production is a tiny fraction of Ten's coverage last year. You will not regret hearing the noise for S2000 cars. The Fords are off the scale & will be heard for an entire stage length almost. That is until the do-gooders try & quieten it up.