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Applause SFX?
DJDustman:
After hearing the same applause sound fx for CBS ans NBC Shows, Do they exist around? Are they still in use today. I think I heard one of the applause same applause noises used on TPIR even today.
cmjb13:
TPIR definitely uses them. They use canned applause and canned shouting (during IUFB). The shouting can also be heard on Eubank's Card Sharks.
Ian Wallis:
What I've found amusing is that sometimes the director is a little careless with the closing shots of a show. For example, on a few episodes of the '80s "Tattletales", they used the canned applause at the end of the show, but the camera pulled out to show the whole audience - who were NOT applauding.
It happened a couple of times on the syndie "Joker's Wild" too.
Personally, I don't know why they had to used canned applause at the end - just let the viewers enjoy listening to the theme!
clemon79:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 06:59 AM\'] Personally, I don't know why they had to used canned applause at the end - just let the viewers enjoy listening to the theme! [/quote]
'Cuz .00001 percent of the viewing audience actually WANT to hear the theme in the clear.
uncamark:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 08:59 AM\']What I've found amusing is that sometimes the director is a little careless with the closing shots of a show. For example, on a few episodes of the '80s "Tattletales", they used the canned applause at the end of the show, but the camera pulled out to show the whole audience - who were NOT applauding.
It happened a couple of times on the syndie "Joker's Wild" too.
Personally, I don't know why they had to used canned applause at the end - just let the viewers enjoy listening to the theme![/quote]
The whole idea of the extended audience applause at the end is to heighten everything and make it sound like you just saw the greatest thing in the world. Even if anyone would wonder why a run-of-the-mill game show would get the sort of ovation reserved for Olivier playing King Lear, it's still an established convention--and not just on game shows. (On some old British sitcoms, the audience was cued to applaud immediately when the title of the show is shown in the opening sequence and it keeps coming until the beginning of the first scene.) The more reasonable version would be to have the audience stop and then start up again after the announcer's final announcement, if any (like "Split Second" and the one "Celebrity Bullseye" crawl we saw a few weeks ago), which was common on radio, but no one seems to want to do that nowadays.
I've been of the belief that too often the audience is overcued to applaud on game shows, but, hey, audience applause sure fills up dead time more easily than an inept host trying to ad lib (no names, please).
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