I have done a little camera work for auditorium shows, and we never have people getting up and leaving in the shots. But for this it seemed like they purposefully cut to people getting up and leaving. Some people pointed out that alot of the people werent into the show and looking bored. But even so, it seemed a little amateur for the production to include these shots.
Just wanted to point that out and ask if it bothered anyone else.
In defense of the show, it started at 7 PM and, when I left at 1 AM, they were still going on. The Count Baise is in Red Bank, and I had a long freaking commute into Manhattan where, if I didn't hit a certain train, I'd be stuck on a train platform in Red Bank until 6 AM. I can't speak for everyone in the crowd, but they leaving might not have been out of boredom and more out of a need to get home. The New Jersey Transit is a cruel mistress, it is.
The editing in the movie is structured to cut down on that as much as possible. They shot a lot of tapes that night and probably had enough coverage of Kevin to get around it. But thinking as an editor, is it better to keep cutting back and forth around Kevin as if the audience were a ping-pong ball (i.e. baseless cutting) or cut to the audience to liven the editing up, even if it wasn't technically correct?