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Matthieus2 wrote: I have to say looking at that preview how much better the production and even the camera work is on AGT than BGT. I'm not sure about with other Got Talent shows. I appreciate AGT will likely have a bigger budget and bigger production than BGT, but sometimes I feel the camera work ruins performances on BGT. I actually think it's the opposite. More recent seasons of AGT have started doing this weird thing where they show parts of performances at slower frame rates to make them more "cinematic", doing a lot of slow motion, and adding way more cuts to the host/judges. This ruined a lot of performances last year during Champions, and it even happened this year with Junior Creative.

For example, look at Kenichi Ebina's performance on Champions last year tons of different camera angles and pointless cuts. Then look at his Quarterfinal performance from Season 8...the camera stays on one wide shot the whole time and that's it. It keeps you immersed in the act without any distractions.

Hans even made a joke about this during one of his packages, he said something like "don't cut to the judges, no one's interested". He's not wrong lol