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MegaMan775 wrote: 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

I see what you mean about the slow motion features. I can see it working with some performances, like an acrobatic act perhaps. But I agree, I would just rather see the act in full.

It annoys me on BGT and has made some auditions quite unwatchable for me, especially in for instance dance acts where you need to see the actual performance but it'll cut to the audience and judges more than the actual performance. I don't think I've seen it as much in AGT as BGT where they'll show an audience member or two talking or saying what they think of an act, very much staged. Whereas sometimes in the live shows of BGT the camera work can seem quite amateur to me at times. Not to complain, but just that's why I find AGT generally a lot more spectacular.