I see that Alastair Yates is presenting on Sunday afternoons - is this a permanent arrangement? He really fits the bill well - he oozes charisma and personality and we get to see the extent of his great journalistic skills. Actually, with such a wonderful voice it would be great to see him on Breakfast first thing in the morning or even one of the national bulletins.
Just seen Matthew using the actual News24 newsroom to do the have your say section. Its quite affective, and doesnt look too jerky! And the newsroom looks tidier and cleaner looking than the frosted glass makes out
Just seen Matthew using the actual News24 newsroom to do the have your say section. Its quite affective, and doesnt look too jerky! And the newsroom looks tidier and cleaner looking than the frosted glass makes out
I wish BBC World would do something like that - go into the newsroom for the "have your say" segment, or introduce something like it.
Good to see them put up a breaking news aston this evening during a completely unrelated story. Jon was doing an interview or intro into a report at the screen on the Tory leadership and they flashed up the news about the driver of the bus which caught fire during Hurrican Rita. They continued with the story they were on and made reference to the Rita story afterwards.
I wish they'd do this more - put the breaking news aston up as soon as they get the news, rather than waiting for a studio bit when the presenters read it out from the desk.
Good to see them put up a breaking news aston this evening during a completely unrelated story. Jon was doing an interview or intro into a report at the screen on the Tory leadership and they flashed up the news about the driver of the bus which caught fire during Hurrican Rita. They continued with the story they were on and made reference to the Rita story afterwards.
I wish they'd do this more - put the breaking news aston up as soon as they get the news, rather than waiting for a studio bit when the presenters read it out from the desk.
That's been happening an awful lot lately - especially during recorded programming at weekends, and during Sportsday and sports round-ups on weekdays.
gregmc posted:
Some interesting camera angles this afternoon... Julia did the bussiness at the desk, and then walked over to the second area.
...and again, that's also been happening for ages, most notably for the FTSE round-ups towards the end of the business day, and more recently for some sports updates.
A couple of weeks ago, one of the male sports presenters - not Chris Hollins - started his round-up at the desk, got up to move towards the right-hand presentation area, but managed to get his mic caught on something as he got up, which then fell to the floor, and got dragged under his feet all the way across the set as he continued speaking silently; meanwhile, there was much crunching and scraping coming from the microphone underfoot, before the gallery finally cut off that mic and the back-ups in the right-hand area took over so that we could hear what he was saying. Such movements around the set are not without peril.
It was Andrew Cotter who was involved with the microphone incident.
Another time, Julia Caesar did the walk, but cameras weren't set up in time and nobody had told her, and she found her path to the right hand area blocked by one of the cameras, she had to walk around it.
While I do think it's good to move around the set, I always flinch when they do coz it's done so badly!
They always seem so self concious when they do it, the sound's crap - with clunking footsteps on all the plastic flooring, and there's a kind of holding of the breath as the two presenters watch on in a mix of horror and amusement!
They need to sort out the noisy flooring so that the move isn't drowned out by footsteps, and I also think it'd work better from the opposite camera angle so they're walking away from the camera and you can see the screen they're going towards. This way you're looking at the screen rathert than watching them walk and the other presenters faces!