False Fireworks?
 

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False Impressions
And finally, Chinese officials admit to deceiving the world over some of the highlights at Friday's Olympic opening ceremony.
The London Telegraph reports the nine-year-old girl who was seen singing as the Chinese flag entered the stadium was in fact lip-syncing. Lin Miaoke became an overnight sensation in Beijing, but the ceremony's musical director says the real singer was a seven-year-old girl, Yang Peiyi, who was given the singing spot after a 10-year-old winner of a nation-wide competition was told she was too old. At the last minute, a member of the Chinese Politburo determined Yang Peiyi was unsuitable to be shown on the broadcast because of her buck teeth.

Chinese officials have already admitted that some of the video images of the massive fireworks display at the opening ceremony were actually pre-recorded, digitally enhanced and inserted into the broadcast.

Hmmmmmm. Makes you wonder...

What they are referring to is the "footprints" segment. That was CGI, and done because they wanted to get a good visual "shot" for TV. The fireworks did go off choreographed as designed/planned. But the tv feed was CGI. That was alluded to in the broadcast.

I thought this thread was about fake orgasms. Oh well..

I'm just suprised everything hasn't broken the first time it's been used.

ha, you've been there too, eh? ;)

Lying, Deceiving, Cheating... Beijing 2008. :mad:

well its about time they caught up with the rest of the 1st world countries in that regard, eh?

geeeezzzz . . .Fireworks!? ...They are Chinese!! Faking the one thing they do well.... (I thought the fireworks looked a bit too synchronized.)

The announcers clearly stated that as the image was being shown, I don't know why suddenly everyone is up in arms about this...they never hid it at all.

Costas: "This is quite literally cinema"

Yeah, nobody else broadcasting on TV uses CGI, not movies, not TV shows, not weather casters, nobody.

Don't worry Hugh, we'll take care of it in post...

With the 1st AD running around saying We'll fix it in Post, We'll fix it in PostSmileWavy

Mabye they could give their skater's routine another axle with a half twist flip for the re-broadcast. When she gets a 8.7 by the judges, the party leaders can cry "Western manipulation" foul.

Media manipulation. Thought control. Herding the masses.
We have learned a lot from the Chinese.

Should we talk about how NBC edited the opening ceremonies to have the US walk in much later in the order than they actually did?

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/09/2231231&from=rss


The whole opening ceremonies is A PRODUCTION... it makes no sense to me how people can get upset because some of the elements are theatrics.

Fireworks are theatrics. ....Fake fireworks, from the inventors of fireworks, is just pathetic.

The TV fireworks were faked 'cause it was a safety issue of getting a 'copter up there w/ camera while the big boom booms were going off...

It also was pretty evident when watching the footage that it was CGI given the camera placements and movement.

But we wouldn't want the viewer to actually think and engage...

It was a very cool sequence. The level of detail was quite amazing. Evidently they simulated the correct amount of smog :p . Plus you can see the neon signs animated as well.

Chopper- Yes, I've heard that reason too. --Lame. Fireworks can be controlled enough ... A few weeks ago we had a plane fly around (as part of a FW show) with fireworks coming off the plane.

It's all an agenda for China. I don't feel surprised by anything they do, unless it's out-and-out cheating during the competitions, and even then...