i think safe-areas are the least of his worries. sky wont be happy with your choice of font, and if you're going to do bbc-style boxes, at least make a better attempt at them. the colour scheme is bad, sorry.
Is it just me, or does UTV's theme for the elections sound a bit like "The Big Country"??? Wierd.
They certainly seem to have gone for a replica of the network look for their desk and logo, though their astons are different.
BBC NI meanwhile gettting News 24-esqe astons for the election. The wierdest thing about BBC NI, is of course what they are using their ticker for. You can text in messages., people were using it to say hi to their teachers!!!
On to RTE - what the hell did they do on Six-One tonight? Tried to run their usual title sequence but had no sound and left it half way through. Then they ran their election titles into and out of breaks, now reading "Westminister Elections" (it earlier read "Northern Ireland Elections", and last night said "Britain Decides". Wierd). No end titles at all, cut straight to an RTE ONE menu,
Last nights programme was of decent quality, but started too late and ended too early. They could have taken one of the UK networks for the rest of the night, though everyone in Ireland interested probably has them anyway. They were using a similar studio for their NI election coverage today, and it seemed to be in 14:9 too. Astons were the same today as last night.
CNN had a title sequence featuring Blair, Howard, and Kennedy made up of blue and red, and a DOG featuring a UK flag and "UK Election 2005".
Lastly... no ones mentioned that BBC World didn't take the BBC ONE coverage, but did their own thing! The graphics had changed colour to black and it came from a different studio. The biggest question is why they bothered at all...they could have just taken BBC ONE.
Was the UTV theme not the same as the ITV News election programme?
According to eariler posts i think the RTÉ Election programming was coming from BBC TVC in London, that could be why it was in widescreen.
I watched a bit of the BBC World programme, and thought it was quite good, i think taking the BBC One coverage may have been too in-depth for an international audience, they just diped in and out of the main BBC One programme and had people in The World studio talking about what it might mean.
PS does have screen caps of CNN or RTÉ coverage. thanks
I think the ratings are a shame for ITV because they did put on a good show, the BBC's show wasn't bad either and it just shows the general public just aren't into it like we are. If people treated it more like political Eurovision and watched the results come in with a few friends and snacks they'd enjoy it alot more.
Well it didn't work for ITV, even with all their celebs (well they were only d-list)
Ooh UTV Seem to have had a make-over for their Election results today.
During the regional opt-out UTV went to adds, but half way through the first one, they cut back to ITN, where they were discussing the situation in Northern Ireland, ITN had taken into consideration that UTV wouldn't bother getting anyone in to do the opt-out!
I understand that but, as UTV is part of the ITV1 network, they have to follow whatever ITV say.
I think you are getting confused with ITV Network, which is a group of companies which control Channel 3, and ITVplc who own the ITV regional licences in England and Wales where channel 3 is called ITV1.
