Noticed that too and was just about to post the same comment. It does feel as though STV lacks confidence in Saturday night's main show.
i'll give them till next week, but I've also notice there has been no straps promoting online content etc to the voice. I think your right STV lacks confidence in this.
The programme idents are quite weak - the initial moving image to start it works quite well, but they then don't seem to know what to do with the next few parts and it comes across as quite untidy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozp8XBFP2co (bonus points to the announcer for timing what she's saying perfectly with the ident though)
In fact, I'm not a massive fan of the ones that have been tacked together presumably to mark some sort of occasion - this being spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6N7t-cQsSg
When they get it right though - this has a lovely sense of movement and familiarity with the audience (everyone will have been on one of those sodding trains and felt that way, but beyond that it brings Scotland together) - I'd say they're much better than what's on offer elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL76tOjMUo
There's a couple of problems with the programme idents. Firstly, they're not consistent as they have two video clips at the beginning and then still images until the form up. That's been taken from the previous package.
Secondly, the new programme idents look messy as they have bars at the top and bottom and just feel rushed. I hope this is an end to new ones being produced.
I like the usual set of STV idents, I just wish they wouldn't use
ALL CAPS
, bold and the underline for programme names on menus and promos - even normal case would make them so much closer to perfect.
Just to say we now have "Winter " Idents, only taken them 3 years to bring those back in to use, with new pictures.
There's a long and shorter version of it too.
Whilst reviewing today's recordings, I can't help but note that having recorded from STV HD, they're very inconsistent in their use of their HD idents. As when recording the Winter idents mentioned, the playout at 9.25am was in full HD with STV HD on the ident, yet subsequent uses through the day, and the shorter version, were all played out as upscaled SD with just STV on the ident.
Also, I noticed that the latest Emmerdale ident has the black bar across the top in the manner of the X Factor idents last year. No quality control! (Though this may already have been mentioned.)
:-(
A former member
Good to see there is a short version floating around. I notice that aswell, the 15pm never had HD at the end of the ident. Its just seems weird. The Emmerdale ident been like that since june but its not as bad as the X factor ident:
Just to say we now have "Winter " Idents, only taken them 3 years to bring those back in to use, with new pictures.
There's a long and shorter version of it too.
Whilst reviewing today's recordings, I can't help but note that having recorded from STV HD, they're very inconsistent in their use of their HD idents. As when recording the Winter idents mentioned, the playout at 9.25am was in full HD with STV HD on the ident, yet subsequent uses through the day, and the shorter version, were all played out as upscaled SD with just STV on the ident.
Also, I noticed that the latest Emmerdale ident has the black bar across the top in the manner of the X Factor idents last year. No quality control! (Though this may already have been mentioned.)
It has. Their playout over the last year has been poor, with announcers you can barely hear, to idents showing bars, or even being broadcast in 4:3. They are installing a new playout system, so hopefully over the next year it will improve.
