I used to be a regular ABC Daytime viewer since 1988 (when I was just a little kid). But over the past few years, I just couldn't take it anymore, with my favorites being pushed aside to showcase empty newbies left and right. But the last straw for me with AMC was their new and jarring film style they experimented with over the summer. It just kept going and going, but now I'm curious...did they stick with it? Or are they back to the traditional three-camera style. I know their ratings started to really plummet with their Laguna Beach wannabe soft lens.

The look isn't shakey anymore.

It's 100% steady and it looks better than ever IMO. I prefer this to pre-July 2006 and the rest of the ABC look.

I agree, alwaysamc. The shakes are GONE and the show looks GREAT!

I hate the look. It doesn't fit with the show.

AMC's production values are horrible. Sound, lighting, wardrobe/hair/makeup, sets, set decoration, the starchy cheap visual appeal.

Well, the sets could use a little work but the actual taping style looks fab.

AMC's production values are horrible. Sound, lighting, wardrobe/hair/makeup, sets, set decoration, the starchy cheap visual appeal.

I had no idea you felt that way.

I had no idea you felt that way.

Really? He says it pretty often.

I used to hate the movie feel the camera gave, but it's grown on me.

Really? He says it pretty often.

I've never noticed.

I liked the shakey/film look combo.

I love the new look. Unfortunately, it's the only part of the show I enjoy.

I've seen public access that looks more like a film than this. I'm with Kenny, AMC has the absolute worst waredrobe, makeup, lighting, sets and now film style. Y&R looks fit for primetime and it's shot on video tape. Sets, lighting, etc. are what give you that film look, not a cheap hand held camera.

AMC's production value went down the tubes with JHC. I know Jean Burke was pretty much a joke, but Pine Valley actually looked good under her watch. I hate this white washed look all the scenes have. Its like the lighting people are not even trying.

AMC's production value went down the tubes with JHC. I know Jean Burke was pretty much a joke, but Pine Valley actually looked good under her watch. I hate this white washed look all the scenes have. Its like the lighting people are not even trying.

Cowudders said the first thing she was going to change about AMC (being that she had a bigger budget to work with than the budget at Port Charles) was going to be the lighting. She said that she didn't like how the show was lit in this "yellowish" (her word, IIRC) light. Of course, in my lay opinion, it's what gave the show its flavor -- its look. OLTL has that harsh white light and dark shadows, and GH has absolutely the worst lighting on all three ABCD soaps, which is ironic since it tapes in a state of the art production facility in Hollywood, rather than a tight ass Manhattan studio.

Then, of course, Carruthers comes along, and adopts that harsh, washed out white light for AMC as well.

It looks nothing like a soap opera and the day this look goes away is the way I'll actually feel good while watching the show.