Reporters- Could you recover as well?

[SamG]

http://www.b-roll.net/tv/view_video.php?viewkey=bdedde4ec2cfad051558

Work safe... turn up the volume.

[TVNewsSpy]

sure, if I was faking a stand up to circulate on the web. That's what that guy was doing.

[!]

Nice try. Let's see the aircheck.

[vuphinder]

Isn't he the same guy that got crapped on by the birds last month?

[Sir Dropham Pants]

Yes, a live shot without graphics. Of course. Fake. Fake. Fake.

[Roy Hobbs]

Sometimes you can add the lower screen CG in after the live. More impressive to old girlfriends on MediaLine.

[SamG]

A) Despite the header on the video says "live shot", it may have just been a stand-up. (would explain no graphics and the video straight from the cam)
B) Even if it's staged, you think he planned to do a full summersault in midair?

[Roy Hobbs]

"I don't care!!!"
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[Sir Dropham Pants]

A) Despite the header on the video says "live shot", it may have just been a stand-up. (would explain no graphics and the video straight from the cam)
B) Even if it's staged, you think he planned to do a full summersault in midair?
Yes...

[The Fedora]

totally fake.

and there were no graphics on there.

[Spike]

Apparently this was not fake. The reporter works for Global TV Toronto. This was for a story shot Tuesday.

As for the lack of graphics, I guess none of you have ever worked in television or didn't pay much attention if you did. A standup tape doesn't magically have graphics on it when you take it out of the camera.

[The Thrill]

Apparently this was not fake. The reporter works for Global TV Toronto. This was for a story shot Tuesday.

As for the lack of graphics, I guess none of you have ever worked in television or didn't pay much attention if you did. A standup tape doesn't magically have graphics on it when you take it out of the camera.

Spike for the win! :worship:

[TVNewsSpy]

Apparently this was not fake. The reporter works for Global TV Toronto. This was for a story shot Tuesday.

As for the lack of graphics, I guess none of you have ever worked in television or didn't pay much attention if you did. A standup tape doesn't magically have graphics on it when you take it out of the camera.

Regardless, it's still fake. It was all staged.

[Sir Dropham Pants]

It could be that it was a reporter's stand up. But it was billed as a "live shot." I did a lot of live shots over the years and can count on one hand the number of times there was a tape rolling in cam. Maybe that was just me and the people I worked with.
The video has been taken down from b-roll and I couldn't find any sign of it on Global TV's website (or anywhere else for that matter). If it were really their video, it seems like they'd make something of it. It could be that the guy really is a reporter in Toronto - maybe he and the photog were screwing around while shooting another story on the slopes. Could be. But a real live shot? Nah. Don't think so.

[Stupid]

The reporter never says "Live" I don't think. So it could be a standup. As for it being staged, that was a pretty long way for a sled to go to hit someone that accurately.

Does the reporter actually work in news somewhere? If he doesn't, I'd believe it was a very good fake.

Just checked b-roll.net. The video was pulled because Global News complained about copyright. So now I am leaning towards real.

[Medicinematt]

Apparently Global didn't get to it before it found its way to Youtube...something tells me it won't be there long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIR0qJ_J97E

[Sir Dropham Pants]

Already gone.

[The Fedora]

Spike,

I was calling BS more towards the Live thing.

[Spike]

Now it made it to Break:

http://break.com/index/reporter-owned-by-sled2.html

It was not a live shot. The person who originally posted it on B-Roll mislabeled it. The guy is a real reporter who works for Global TV in Toronto. This was a standup close, shot for a package on Tuesday. It was removed from B-Roll and YouTube by request from Global News.

There are two things that indicate that it isn't fake. One is that if you watch the snow tuber who hits the reporter, you can see him leaning to the right desperately trying to steer away from the reporter. The other is that the Break copy has the flip in slow motion, and you can see very clearly that the flip is completely uncontrolled. This was no stunt.

I think it's funny that any time anybody posts cool video now, a bunch of morons come out of their stupor to start yelling "Fake!" I imagine you all with Mongoloid voices as I read your posts.

[SamG]

Spike,

I was calling BS more towards the Live thing.

I call BS on your BS. Here's your original post...

totally fake.

and there were no graphics on there.
You claim "TOTALLY fake", THEN you add the no graphics thing. You just tried to jump on the fake bandwagon.

Why don't people admit when they're wrong?:frustrated:

[Roy Hobbs]

The only believable thing in TV News is job inquiries from Yuma.

[The Fedora]

sorry I put the "and" on there.

I was trying to call attention to the "not live" factor.


I did think it was the same guy from the bird poop vid at first.

[SamG]

sorry I put the "and" on there.

I was trying to call attention to the "not live" factor.


I did think it was the same guy from the bird poop vid at first.

keep backpedaling... ;)

[Sir Dropham Pants]

I'll step right up and admit I was wrong -if- it's proven this was real. The fact that it's been pulled off several sites makes me think it probably is real.
It looked at first glance to me another of the faked tv news bloopers that show up on line - the bird poop guy, the woman who "attacked" the guy while trying to do a standup (complete with fake security cam video). It seemed fake especially under the guise of it being a live shot. But it very well may be real. So I very well may be wrong for calling fake.

[Spike]

I'll step right up and admit I was wrong -if- it's proven this was real.

Mongoloid voice.

[Sir Dropham Pants]

This seems a strange thing to obsess about. I offered an opinion. It may very well be wrong the wrong opinion. So be it.

[Medicinematt]

he was lucky he didn't land on his head/neck...could have suffered some major spinal cord damage...it was a close call as seen in the slow-mo version

[southwesternguy]

if it's real or fake, or how I would have handled it if that were me. What I do know is that I looked at some of the other stories on the site that was linked here, and wow, there are some really good people out there doing some really good work. Lots of great shooting and editing. The writing on a lot of those pieces was good, too.

I saved that site my favorites. Good stuff.

[ZuZu's Petals]

Much better than the guy who, reporting live from a Rodeo was stunned into silence when a horse whinnyed.

Um.. .you're at a rodeo - horses are part of the natural environment. If a horse whinnyed at a city council meeting I'd give you a pass... but dude.