fans of 'Arthur' may be pleased to know that Radio 4's PM are using it for the PM General Election 2015 Chris Mason Desk of Election News with Chris Mason. (Yes, that is its full title. Eddie Mair appears to be a Chris Morris fan.)
He also interviewed Bio-Dimbleby, who was apparently unaware that it wasn't used for the theme tune at the 2010 election. Skip forward to the last minute of this clip.
What a nice interview. I have to say I totally agree with Mr Dimbleby on the point that a good TV theme sends shivers and is completely linked to a programme. I can't remember the music they used last election either. This is something I think that has been slightly lost in recent years, not helped by the fact that opening and closing sequences are now much shorter than they used to be, and closing titles are often spoken all over or squashed down to the side to play in programme trailers
Here is the full version played at the end of coverage on the Tuesady night when Cameron became PM. I think it worked brilliantly in this long version.
The Election 2015 opening titles are just MAGNIFICENT - and the new opening sequence, up to 2200 and the Exit Poll, is going to be the best you have EVER seen
As much as I like Arthur, I thought that whole sequence with 5 minutes of bed to introduce the programme worked pretty well.
I thought the crescendo into the exit poll was magnificent.
The titles though kind of fell apart halfway through, not helped I think by the holding title slide at the end being on too long with the music peaking and finishing. Music is great though.
The Election 2015 opening titles are just MAGNIFICENT - and the new opening sequence, up to 2200 and the Exit Poll, is going to be the best you have EVER seen
The Election 2015 opening titles are just MAGNIFICENT - and the new opening sequence, up to 2200 and the Exit Poll, is going to be the best you have EVER seen
Is it David Dimbleby in a boxing match, knocking out prime ministers past and present, only for some black curtains to fall away and reveal that he was boxing on the new election desk in the election studio?
They send people to a representative selection of polling stations and ask people who they voted for, then extrapolate that to the electorate as a whole. It's literally a poll of people exiting the polling station. Of course, there is no obligation for people to talk to the exit poll people or tell them the truth of how they voted. The exit poll was totally wrong a few elections back.
The broadcasters can only reveal the results at 10pm to avoid the risk of influencing the outcome.
:-(
A former member
It wasn't
What I actually mean is that exit poll is pointless, unless it goes to over 300 seats including 56 Scottish seats, 150 margin in England AND the 10 seats UKIP are going after.
Last edited by A former member on 18 April 2015 12:39pm
What I actually mean is that exit poll is pointless, unless it goes to over 300 seats including 56 Scottish seats, 150 margin in England AND the 10 seats UKIP are going after.
Not at all, psephologists everywhere agree on the reasoning and compilation, AND crucially their historic accuracy is uncanny. A properly weighted sampling, for age, region and social class is going to get damn close to the outcome. The one 'joker' in the pack, is personality politics, the effect of which is restricted to a very few seats indeed.
