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ScubaCore Transglobal Diving Quarterly DVD Journal
I pressed buttons on the 150-minute quarterly DVD until a piece about Chuuk Lagoon and the sunken Japanese fleet began to play. I honestly intended to concentrate on it, but I just kept drifting back to reading my book.
Odd bits like the San Francisco Maru caught my eye, but ScubaCore Transglobal Diving Quarterly DVD Journal Vol 1 Issue 2 just couldn't grab and hold my attention.
Chuuk ended, and the DVD returned to the main menu. Why couldn't it just roll through into the next item? It's like having to go back to the contents page between reading magazine articles, rather than just turning the page.
More location reports suffered from the same tedium. It was all the sort of thing a tour operator would love to show to customers ready to sign on the dotted line, but just too cheesy and slow for the other 99.99% of us.
Then came some interviews, some interesting, but too much of the interviewer and not enough from or about the interviewee. After the third one, the standard opening - 'Hello, X, how are you?' 'Hello Y. I am fine, how are you?' 'I am fine...' - began to grate.
The concept is worthy, but the execution is just too 'advertorial'. It reminds me of the dregs of US diving magazines. Buy a DVD and you can only compare it to much slicker TV productions.
It needs work on the scripts, presentation - and especially the editing.
John Liddiard
($89.95pa, ScubaCore, www.scubacore.com) |
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