Carr-Hughes has no excuse for not doing a great job on the streaming. They have been filming/streaming eventing and jumping for years now. They should have used a split screen.
Thank god the events won’t be divvied up that way. Or, at least, I’m hoping not.
Thanks War Admiral. On to facebook.
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But they did show a good bit of the Friesian quadrille, which was great fun to watch. (The riders must have taken up a collection and bought donuts for the camera crew. ;))[/QUOTE]
I’m reliably informed that John Long breeds Friesians. 'Splains a lot.
wow !! I just went to Carr Productions Facebook and asked if they could please show more horses and less crowds and in less than 3 mins my post was deleted. I am going to UN-like them now. 
opps nevermind its there. (on Carr productions.) I had to change the feed lineup.
VS, you are in Canada, how did you get it? I can’t see anywhere to click for Live Stream. All I have is the promo video. ???
Haha it did the same thing to me! :lol:
I added a one star review on their page. I noticed they have a link to this discussion, let’s let them have an earful, er, pagefull of what a horrible job they did on this. What I commented was “If this is the group that just presented the opening ceremonies of WEG on the www.usefnetwork.com site, it was an epic fail. There was way too damn much camera coverage of musicians and almost none of the horses. Wise up people, including Alltech and USEF, people want to see HORSES not opera singers, fiddling bluegrass bands and such. Geez…thank God it was free or I would want a refund. Just sign me a disgusted viewer.”
Very interesting, they have a staff page on their website:
http://www.carr-hughes.com/staff/chp_01_staff.html
I am disgusted to realize that the Jim Carr mentioned is probably a shirt-tail relative, as on my Mother’s side we trace our lineage back to early 1700’s when a Benjamin Carr emigrated from Great Britain to our fair shores. He and his Brothers supposedly are indirectly responsible for the existence of most of the Carrs in the US.
Facebook has been really strange lately. It might not be Carr deleting your post; it could be FB temporarily disappearing it.
ETA: Whoops, thread moves fast!
Carr Hughes produces Rolex and they produce it well so I’m hesitant to pin the horse/musician ratio on them. The more I think about it, the more this sounds like an NBC screwed up mandate. It wasn’t just the ratio, it was that they obviously had not planned ahead of time where the cuts would be because they were in such disruptive places. My favorite was when they were focusing really intently on a violin and then the crowd went wild, shocking the cameraman/producer into thinking something broadcast-worthy was ocurring, causing the camera to swing wildly away to find Stacy Westfall spinning awesomely.
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wow !! I just went to Carr Productions Facebook and asked if they could please show more horses and less crowds and in less than 3 mins my post was deleted. I am going to UN-like them now. ;)[/QUOTE]
Now that just sucks.
yes my comment on their FB page was deleted in a millisecond - oh well
at least they know about the thread now
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Facebook has been really strange lately. It might not be Carr deleting your post; it could be FB temporarily disappearing it.
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no guys, my bad …its there…I had the feed lineup wrong…its there. along with 2 other disgruntled women telling them how to do their job.
This thread was linked to the FB page as well.
COTHER------- You should be informed that the public perception of your editing of the WEG opening ceremonies was subpar per Chronicle of the Horse public Forums
http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274316
WEG opening ceremonies on now! - Chronicle Forums
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COTHER------ I’m only “liking” you so I can express my extreme displeasure at the camera work at the opening ceremonies of WEG. Fire your editor NOW and get someone in who knows horses! We missed ALL the good performances!! You need to up your game BIGTIME for the rest of this event. Find someone who knows what’s important to equestrians and GET THEM ON LINE!!!
this is the wall feed from the Carr Facebook…the posts are there, you have to click “carr productions +others” to see it.
I removed proper names.
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Carr Hughes produces Rolex and they produce it well so I’m hesitant to pin the horse/musician ratio on them. The more I think about it, the more this sounds like an NBC screwed up mandate. It wasn’t just the ratio, it was that they obviously had not planned ahead of time where the cuts would be because they were in such disruptive places. My favorite was when they were focusing really intently on a violin and then the crowd went wild, shocking the cameraman/producer into thinking something broadcast-worthy was ocurring, causing the camera to swing wildly away to find Stacy Westfall spinning awesomely.[/QUOTE]
I am still playing devil’s advocate. Maybe this event was a bit overwhelming to the average camera guy. When you are taping a jumping round, and that is the purpose of your recording, it is pretty obvious you focus on the horse as they go around. Perhaps a tempi change looks like a horse goofing off to the camera guy, not as a skilled exercise. Until the crowd reacts, they don’t realize that the movement IS special and by that time it is too late for the feed.
I have no idea what the issue was. Lack of education? Lack of audience interest? Interns at the controls?
Further info on the injured rider (via local reporter):
last 3 min. Of ceremony, opera singer just finished ‘Impossible Dream’, horse bucked and threw rider. Man was on black horse in a tuxedo. Wife brought onto floor. From ringside friends, looked fatal. So sorry.
Damn I hope that’s not true. 
Reminds of the first day of the Olympics with the athlete’s death.
So sad! Still hoping the rider is fine!
How terrible. Sounds as though it could have been one of the Friesian riders???
Re injured rider - Don’t know. Editor of one of COTH’s competitors said there are too many rumors flying around now & she is NOT willing to substantiate any of them (sensibly enough). I think that’s probably all we’ll get for tonight.
Time for me to say my prayers and go to bed! 'Night all.
I saw a bucking horse that was part of a military thing. Black horses and male riders in black helmets. Some sort of school.
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