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(September 2003)

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MD
mdtauk
For someone who works at sky, he has an awfully low opinion of the company!
HC
Hatton Cross
fernando posted:
" I've always found it amusing how the intro voiceovers sound like they've been cobbled together by a similar technique used on those automated phone lines .....


Well apart from recording every single newsreader in every single combination, there really is no other way of doing it. Given the amount of freelancers and new people that pop up every few weeks, poor old Bruce Hamill would be doing nothing else!

To be fair, Sky News pull the cut and paste TOH's off quite well. I've done a few for a digital radio station that I work for, and to get the voice over artiste to say the name without the natural 'up' inflection at the end of the surname is quite trying to do.
LO
Londoner
Gordon Radley seems to have taken over early from Allan King tonight.

I see that Johnnie on the Sky News Forums says Allan didn't sound well earlier
DA
Dan Founding member
Hatton Cross posted:
To be fair, Sky News pull the cut and paste TOH's off quite well. I've done a few for a digital radio station that I work for, and to get the voice over artiste to say the name without the natural 'up' inflection at the end of the surname is quite trying to do.


I don't think it'll ever sound right if you just get the voice to say the names in isolation, as a list. Get him/her to say them in the sentence they're going to be used in, maybe with a slight pause either side to make them easier to edit.

Of course when the BBC news changed format and regional presenters were named on the clock for the first time, the announcers in London recorded about 1,000 combinations. Smile
MD
mdtauk
Check the 'Sky News International' thread for images, music and video of changes to the international feed, which *could* signify what will change on Monday...
:-(
A former member
James Hatts posted:
Gordon Radley seems to have taken over early from Allan King tonight.

I see that Johnnie on the Sky News Forums says Allan didn't sound well earlier


Allan has had the flu so he was off on Friday and left early last night.
LO
lobster
Mick posted:
James Hatts posted:
Gordon Radley seems to have taken over early from Allan King tonight.

I see that Johnnie on the Sky News Forums says Allan didn't sound well earlier


Allan has had the flu so he was off on Friday and left early last night.


Sounds like co-anchor Lisa Aziz has got the flu too, do we reckon they shared a quick valentines day snog in the sky news dungeon?
FU
fusionlad Founding member
I think Lisa has gone home now. Greg Milam is going solo.
JO
Johnnie
Greg's been solo since 2pm.
FU
fusionlad Founding member
johnnielarkin posted:
Greg's been solo since 2pm.

But he's not meant to be, he started with Lisa.
MD
mdtauk
Something is being done with the SKYnews today mini-desk area at the moment.
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/snwork1.jpg
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/snwork2.jpg
LO
lobster
The colour recent colour change does suggest they might have found a use for that area of the newsroom... what it could be i don't know!!

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