I think where Danny Boyle got it right, and where the directors of the other three ceremonies didn't, was on insisting on his own TV crew, camera positions, and TV director for his ceremony. There are 80,000 people in the stadium, and last night 7.7 million watching on TV.... surely it's hugely important to make sure the TV coverage is as good as it possibly can be? In mitigation, last night's show was rehearsed in the stadium over the last week, overnight from late at night to early in the morning. They had a very short get-in, and never did a dress run of the whole show, so it can't have been so easy for C4's TV director/vision mixer to know where to be looking at any one time. The default and easy version is, I suppose, to do what they did, and broadcast it as a pop concert. But I agree, a shame not to see more of the aerialists!!!
