Ooh, that was a bit dodgy. Wonder if it was someone in the gallery fiddling with a joystick, because it didn't look much like somebody behind the camera. Unless they didn't have a viewfinder to go by..
Good to see the BBC putting Ben Geogeghan (or however you spell it) to good use on the Election Bus. Didn't he have a presenting slot at News 24 at one time?
Ben was a launch presenter on News 24, and a main presenter on teh channel for quite a number of years. He presented Monday-Thursday 0900-1200 with Jackie Hardgrave, and on Friday he presented 0900-1200 with Anastasia Cooke.
The schedule changed a bit, and Ben carried on presenting with Jackie (and then Joanna Gosling when Jackie left) 0900-1300 (with a 30 minute break for the BBC World News at 0930)
He stopped presenting on News 24 a year or two ago, and moved (returned?) to reporting for Newsnight, but is now doing more reporting for News 24.
(Can anyone believe News 24 will have been on-air for 8 years in November?)
I like the Election slug in the top left corner. I dunno what it is but it's less obtrusive that the usual LIVE/Location slug, perhaps because it's well designed and more curved.
They should look into doing something like this with the LIVE/location slug, but it needs to tie in with things like split screens etc unlike the current one.
Good to see the BBC putting Ben Geogeghan (or however you spell it) to good use on the Election Bus. Didn't he have a presenting slot at News 24 at one time?
Ben was a launch presenter on News 24, and a main presenter on teh channel for quite a number of years. He presented Monday-Thursday 0900-1200 with Jackie Hardgrave, and on Friday he presented 0900-1200 with Anastasia Cooke.
The schedule changed a bit, and Ben carried on presenting with Jackie (and then Joanna Gosling when Jackie left) 0900-1300 (with a 30 minute break for the BBC World News at 0930)
He stopped presenting on News 24 a year or two ago, and moved (returned?) to reporting for Newsnight, but is now doing more reporting for News 24.
(Can anyone believe News 24 will have been on-air for 8 years in November?)
8 years, I can still remember the first overnight on BBC One. Seems like just the other day. Migh how the channel has changed.
They did it again today at 4.25 ish and she said they will be doing it again tomorrow - i guess at the same time
They had someone holding the camera this time rather than controlling it from a remote place![/quote]
It does have someone holding the camera in a "beneath the armpit" position. It's the camera that's normally on a rostrum in the half-heads/occasional sport heads position - the cable's tugged out a bit and round the corner. Camera 7 if you're a real anorak! It needs careful production and sensible camerawork to work, but I think it looks good.
By the way, that's EXACTLY the kind of thing News 24 was meant to be doing when it launched! All the ideas back in winter/spring 1997 involved presenters getting up from their desks, wandering off into the newsroom (now the World newsroom), finding reporters sitting at their desks and talking about them to the stories. Then reality set in, N24 realised that getting the right package to follow the right link was pushing the production systems right to their limit, and the idea was abandoned well before launch (9/11/97). The closest the channel ever got was occasional headlines from in front of the gallery (or "output suite" in late 90's BBC Newspeak), done from a remote camera above the set. But now it's happened - and you can bet it won't be abandoned after the election! It's fresh, has energy, a sense of being live, and a slight sense of risk (and that's real)....