Please shut up, Nancy Kerrigan.
Jan. 19th, 2008 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusI can't stand Nancy Kerrigan as an announcer.
Okay, okay, during the competitions she's not bad. She knows (and can tell us) the difference between a triple flip and a triple Lutz -- although no one does it like Dick Button. Button tells where the skater has been, tells us, "Ryan has always had trouble with his speed but boy, he's fast tonight!" He gives us a sense of history, that this competition isn't an isolated event.
But she's driving me batty during the exhibitions. She just doesn't know when to talk or when to shut up.
Pointers for future announcers:
1 - Watch your mic. If it's fallen closer to your face -- put it back where it was! Otherwise your voice is now very, very loud, and very unprofessional. A tip: your nasal voice should not be louder than the skater's music.
2 - Give the important information up front. The song. The skater name. Don't wait until halfway through the performance when the viewer is into the show to interrupt it to tell us this shit. Cute comments also go in the beginning. Then let the viewer watch.
3 - We don't care about your past experiences in skating. Really. We don't want to know what it's like for you to perform in an exhibition. We're not watching you. You are not the show. You are just a disembodied voice. (Besides, Nancy, you always sucked. You were technically pristine but a boring performer.)
4 - You are watching the jumps. The viewer is watching the show. Don't shut up during the jumps and talk over the performance when you get bored. The truth is, hard as they are, important as they are, you've seen one jump, you've seen them all. Footwork, character, expression are what matter in an exhibition. You know, the stuff you're interrupting?
5 - It's an exhibition. Telling us during an exhibition that it's illegal to do that backflip in competition is completely irrelevant. It's not a competition.
6 - Pay attention to what's going on. Never tell us what you don't know. For example, telling us that "I got so into it I didn't catch whether Takahachi did a triple flip or a--" *strangles Nancy*
Okay, okay, during the competitions she's not bad. She knows (and can tell us) the difference between a triple flip and a triple Lutz -- although no one does it like Dick Button. Button tells where the skater has been, tells us, "Ryan has always had trouble with his speed but boy, he's fast tonight!" He gives us a sense of history, that this competition isn't an isolated event.
But she's driving me batty during the exhibitions. She just doesn't know when to talk or when to shut up.
Pointers for future announcers:
1 - Watch your mic. If it's fallen closer to your face -- put it back where it was! Otherwise your voice is now very, very loud, and very unprofessional. A tip: your nasal voice should not be louder than the skater's music.
2 - Give the important information up front. The song. The skater name. Don't wait until halfway through the performance when the viewer is into the show to interrupt it to tell us this shit. Cute comments also go in the beginning. Then let the viewer watch.
3 - We don't care about your past experiences in skating. Really. We don't want to know what it's like for you to perform in an exhibition. We're not watching you. You are not the show. You are just a disembodied voice. (Besides, Nancy, you always sucked. You were technically pristine but a boring performer.)
4 - You are watching the jumps. The viewer is watching the show. Don't shut up during the jumps and talk over the performance when you get bored. The truth is, hard as they are, important as they are, you've seen one jump, you've seen them all. Footwork, character, expression are what matter in an exhibition. You know, the stuff you're interrupting?
5 - It's an exhibition. Telling us during an exhibition that it's illegal to do that backflip in competition is completely irrelevant. It's not a competition.
6 - Pay attention to what's going on. Never tell us what you don't know. For example, telling us that "I got so into it I didn't catch whether Takahachi did a triple flip or a--" *strangles Nancy*
