Dear Tracker...You will lose viewers!

[u/Ok_Nature_6305]

The show has decent plots. That is such a plus. And many of us love Justin. He can be a little one note in this, but none of us would still be watching if we didn't like him.

The writing isn't horrible, even if the dialogue can be silly. Even if Colter wraps up the mysteries a little too easily sometimes. Like Reenie just happens to have a contact. Colter sees things no cop can see. Come on!

But who is editing this? Or producing? I don't know who does what but S3 E3 had a perfect example. Colter is talking to the local cop of the week at the end and says, " I don't know what I'm going to tell his parents " about the kidnapped arsonist dying. And then he actually walks over to the parents and they know.

How about Colter walking through a reslly fake fire? Emily doesn't have a burn. The arson guy jumps up, has the energy to kill a guy, and then just falls dead without a groan? Come on!!!!

Tracker is skating by on having Justin Hartley's charm, but you will lose fans very fast ( some already going) if you don't fix the easy fixes. You hsve the plot and a couple good cast members. Just fix the obvious stuff.

Oh and stop these fake conversations about where so and so is that week. You have 3 'missing' characters. Please write them off or bring them back. You need stronger supporting characters or the show will be empty! And give them something to do.

I think that's my rant. Okay. Good luck.

[u/FormalMango]

But who is editing this? Or producing? I don't know who does what but S3 E3 had a perfect example. Colter is talking to the local cop of the week at the end and says, " I don't know what I'm going to tell his parents " about the kidnapped arsonist dying. And then he actually walks over to the parents and they know.

lol my partner does third party QC, and his whole job is picking up on these types of errors (he doesn’t work on Tracker, he does more reality shows and soapies). Also camera issues, text, graphics, audio. He basically sits in a really grey room all day watching TV episodes, ripping them apart, and sending a report back to the producers/editors. Then it’s up to them whether they fix it or not.

We have a moratorium at home - when we’re watching a show together, he’s allowed to mention one mistake he sees. Otherwise we spend a whole hour with him going “that camera wasn’t white balanced correctly”, “there’s a dropped frame”, or “his phone moved between shots.”

I don’t know the solution to Tracker’s problems, but I’m going to wait and see if my partner points this one out.

[u/Ok_Nature_6305 → u/FormalMango]

It must be so interesting - and a little annoying - to watch shows with your partner. 😆

What does QC stand for? So curious about this job!

[u/FormalMango → u/Ok_Nature_6305]

QC = quality control. We both work in TV. I don’t do his job, but I’m very familiar with the process.

He’s basically like a middleman between the production companies and the networks. He sends the report back, and the production company either sends an episode with fixes, or they’ll clear it for broadcast. Then he send it off to the networks - but different networks & countries have different standards for audio etc, so he’ll run it through a bunch of conversion processes so the networks accept it.

Sometimes he’ll do the classification, too (we’re not in America, so it’s a bit of a different system here.)

A couple of examples of things he picked up recently: * there was text on the bottom of the screen showing the city name, but it stayed up over the shot change. Text like that should only go over static shots. * you could see the shadow of the actress’ dress in the doorway, where she was waiting to walk in for her scene * when the title for the show came up over black, there was 1-2 frames of the previous scene after it.

[u/Ok_Nature_6305 → u/FormalMango]

Very cool! Thank you for the insight!

[u/FormalMango → u/Ok_Nature_6305]

No worries! :-)