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Personally I have an ear for things that don't sound quite right, especially when there's a song in a movie or a theme tune I'm quite familiar with. My family were watching some Fresh Prince when it popped up on Sky Comedy and I found the higher pitch of the theme tune to not only be noticeable but quite distracting. I must be in a minority because nobody in the room could pick up on it.
As any normal person does, I'd recorded Planes Trains and Automobiles on Channel 4 because I was curious to see how they'd edit the infamous profanity-laden scene when Steve Martin's rental car hasn't shown up. I'm quite fond of the soundtrack of this film, and having used the Blu-ray to watch it the last few times, I expected the music to be unpleasantly fast. It could've just been me, but it sounded like it does on the Blu-ray at 24fps.
Anyone who's spent ten minutes in a video editing program knows it's quite easy to change the playback speed and pitch of a video. Assuming Channel 4 went to the effort of getting the film to play at the correct speed, how come UK broadcasters seem content with playing out programmes and films faster than they should? Laziness? A subtle opportunity for more advertising time?
Of course, if I've just misheard the music in PT&A, then this post is completely redundant and I apologise
Correcting the speed of American programmes
Just wanted to bring this up because it came to mind a lot over the Christmas break. As most of will probably know, when American programmes are shown over here, the increase from 24fps to 25fps causes a subtle change in playback speed, as it does on home video before Blu-ray came around.Personally I have an ear for things that don't sound quite right, especially when there's a song in a movie or a theme tune I'm quite familiar with. My family were watching some Fresh Prince when it popped up on Sky Comedy and I found the higher pitch of the theme tune to not only be noticeable but quite distracting. I must be in a minority because nobody in the room could pick up on it.
As any normal person does, I'd recorded Planes Trains and Automobiles on Channel 4 because I was curious to see how they'd edit the infamous profanity-laden scene when Steve Martin's rental car hasn't shown up. I'm quite fond of the soundtrack of this film, and having used the Blu-ray to watch it the last few times, I expected the music to be unpleasantly fast. It could've just been me, but it sounded like it does on the Blu-ray at 24fps.
Anyone who's spent ten minutes in a video editing program knows it's quite easy to change the playback speed and pitch of a video. Assuming Channel 4 went to the effort of getting the film to play at the correct speed, how come UK broadcasters seem content with playing out programmes and films faster than they should? Laziness? A subtle opportunity for more advertising time?
Of course, if I've just misheard the music in PT&A, then this post is completely redundant and I apologise
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The rest are either old fashioned or just cack.
ITV logo discussion
The 1998 logo is probably the only one that could still theoretically work. It hasn't aged all that much and still portrays the channel as the "trusting friend you have a coffee with every week" it likes to be seen as. I still really like the 1989 logo but it doesn't represent what ITV is nowadays.The rest are either old fashioned or just cack.
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The Masked Singer UK...2021
Even watching it back on ITV Hub, I do find myself skipping chunks of it. It could definitely be a lot snappier in my opinion.
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Christmas TV 2020
Clarkson managed to pull off a hybrid between TV Burp and Screenwipe wrapped up in a Tarrant on TV wrapping. It'd be nice to see that come back, even potentially make a series out of it.
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TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread
Then, of course, you have (I presume) Granada cut short their own credits to make up for lost time.
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Coronavirus - Impact on live/recorded shows
Nine times out of ten, there is always a cutaway to Rachel during Jimmy's introduction. "Did you know, for example," was almost always followed by a conspicuous edit, and this was long before Covid was anything more than an apocalyptic literary trope. I'm pretty sure the same thing happened on the original Cats series, and I can only assume it's to trim Jimmy's intro to fit within the episode's duration.
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The Abridged Ronnies
What a strange approach to cut two thirds of a programme. Makes you wonder why they didn't make a bespoke repackaging of old sketches instead.
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But inexplicably, it's been cut drastically to only 19 minutes. Even tomorrow's airing of it on BBC Four is only a half hour slot. Does anyone know why it's been butchered so badly? I don't recall anything grossly offensive by today's standards, but even then, Porridge is preceded by an on-screen warning about such a thing and an objectively racist joke is still intact.
The Abridged Ronnies
It's been quite nice having a bunch of Christmas specials to watch on BBC iPlayer this year, but I just came across The Two Ronnies Christmas Sketchbook, which I'm sure ran for an hour when it was originally broadcast, especially as Ronnie B called it a "bumper" edition.But inexplicably, it's been cut drastically to only 19 minutes. Even tomorrow's airing of it on BBC Four is only a half hour slot. Does anyone know why it's been butchered so badly? I don't recall anything grossly offensive by today's standards, but even then, Porridge is preceded by an on-screen warning about such a thing and an objectively racist joke is still intact.
