nuclear attack mocks

Iif there was a nuclear attack i wonder what would come up on tv screens

Over to you............

Well why don't you have a go at making some first!! I remember Mr Tom Servo's excellent Mock Emergency attack mocks - complete with Story!

Well i'll try later

I had a quick go then, since you posted and have come up with this, a rather flustered looking Sophie (recognise her?) comes on air. Complete with Interference.

http://jolnetwork.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/captures/nuke.jpg

Im sorry if I haven't got all of the effects right, as I have never been in a Nuclear Attack before, Thank God!

Great mock, any more

What about:
Sky
ITV
UKTV

Just one point - it's affected, not effected.

i knew that would happen

If there was a nuclar attack - wouldn't we just get the old '4 MINUTE WARNING'? Would the BBC be still there if nuclear war happened? Would London? You won't remember, dubble, the threats during the Cold War but 4 minutes was it - you had 4 mins to live (unless you had an underground radioactive proof shelter with thousands of years worth of baked beans...)

Anyway, re-it-er-ate, I do like your mocks but th only thing is - you don't have a clue as to widescreen text justification. Here's an image that you should use as an example when 'mocking'

http://mockupload.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/resources/images/template.gif
from TV Forum Mock Resources. All text and major pictures should be enclosed within the inner square - this is 4:3. Anyway, just a bit of help from me to thee.

well, the effects would be:

Heat and Blast- the imminent effect which can crumble buildings and melt milk bottles
Fall-out- the radioactive dust which can kill

UKTV would surely run BBC coverage. Anyway Mr Dubble I'd love to see your mocks.

Well, here was my story. Of course, the usual disclaimers about it being completely fictional, and any similarity to persons living or dead is quite coincidental.

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Damn this head-cold. It's been keeping you awake for the last three days, and you're getting tired of watching endless episodes of V Graham Norton . But yet you can't sleep. Sigh. As you're laying on the couch, watching an odd repeat The Simpsons on BBC Two, you feel a thump in the floor, as if someone has dropped something very heavy upstairs. The windows shake for a fraction of a second.

The reception on the television gets very poor for about a second and a half, and then goes black altogether, as your Freeview box can no longer detect a good signal from your aerial. "Strange," you think, as you briefly consider getting up off the couch and twiddling some of the cables behind the television.

But before you can do that, a frozen image of The Simpsons re-appears (Barney, mid-belch) for nearly 5 minutes. Strange indeed -- and you just got your new digibox last week. Tsk. But you're too achy to get off the couch.

It dawns on you that it might not be a digibox problem, as you remember that deep, heavy thump. Just as this crosses the transom of your mind, a screen appears, with no audio. You flick over to One, Choice, News 24, and even Four to see what's going on there ... and they all have a frozen screen, like this one. You go back to BBC One, figuring that's the best place to be.

http://homepage.mac.com/robertpalmer/tvforum/emerg/1.jpg

You go cold. Not like cold when it's snowing, but cold from the inside. Deep down, you know something is wrong. It's not something you've seen on television before, and being the television anorak you are, that's saying something. Overlooking the fact that there are two DOGs on screen, you sit there, transfixed, as the second hand sweeps clockwise -- is that a VT clock? --, and eerie timing beeps begin to tick off the seconds.

http://homepage.mac.com/robertpalmer/tvforum/emerg/2.jpg

bip! bip! bip! bip! bip! bip! beeeeeeeeeeeep!

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Hey! That's your transmitter. A recorded announcement comes on, and says in a very passive, matter-of-fact tone "This is a BBC emergency transmission. Please stay calm, and stand by for important information, following shortly." You watch the ribbons flutter benignly for what seems like an eternity, but is really about 7 seconds. You hear the audio of a very busy room pop in, and then see an image of a distraught looking Adrian Finighan in the World studio.

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"Yes. Right. No, I'll start now. Good. Are we ready?" He mutters to someone probably as distracted as he is in the control booth. If Adrian's not doing well, you know things must be bad. And in the back of your mind, you wonder does this mean I get BBC World now? And they seem to have gotten their DOGs sorted out.

"Ah, yes, good evening, I'm Adrian Finighan in London, and this is an emergency broadcast to alert you of a situation that has taken place just a few moments ago. "

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"We're receiving reports that ... we're being told that there has been a large ... a very large explosion in the Channel, possibly over the Eurotunnel. The Royal Air Force, who were performing exercises in the area tonight, say that they witnessed a small nuclear explosion. An explosive device was detonated -- possibly in a boat -- over the Eurotunnel."

"We are now being instructed to advise ... uh ... residents along east-facing shores to move inland. Your local police will be coordinating evacuation routes. Please, the thing to remember now is please, do not panic."

Panic. Sure, you think. You're not going to panic. You just have to get a fresh pair of pants on, and you'll be leaving shortly.

~fin~

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Thats scared the sh*t out of me.