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BBC News 24: Presentation discussion

Graphics & set related (January 2008)

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MD
mdtauk
The Autocue must have been her first glance, rather than the clock.

I wonder if the Nationals will share the same graphics set as News 24 - all be it without a ticker, as the more traditional viewer wont be used to the convention of Continuous News.
DD
DarkestDreams
Was nice to see James Dagwell presenting N24 a few nights ago, he seemed to handle the serious stuff very well.

Has he presented before?
JF
JamesyFish
Did anyone just see Mr Saville on N24? Complaining that the camera man was giggling. All was very funny!
NG
noggin Founding member
matthew-hmm-9999 posted:
Was nice to see James Dagwell presenting N24 a few nights ago, he seemed to handle the serious stuff very well.

Has he presented before?


He presented quite a few editions of The News Show / The Seven O'Clock News on BBC Three.
KI
kitt22
goldfish97 posted:
Did anyone just see Mr Saville on N24? Complaining that the camera man was giggling. All was very funny!


Classic stuff! Laughing
AS
asiancutie123
id quite like to see suzanne virdee on the nationals from midlands today I think she'd be quite good and suprised has not appeared yet
NA
nat210790
asiancutie123 posted:
id quite like to see suzanne virdee on the nationals from midlands today I think she'd be quite good and suprised has not appeared yet


Yea, I liked her when she presented the Breakfast news summaries after Gillian Joseph left from summer 2005 until the rebrand in 2006. It would be good to see her on News 24, like Sophie Long from Spotlight.
MO
Moz
I'm not a moderator, but could I please ask that people don't post about presenters in this thread - use the other one for that. I see a new post in her and think it's about pres, but it's not.
DV
DVB Cornwall
The dangers of using overlays to portray 'window shots'

Frank Field being interviewed at Westminster with the Big Ben and HoP background on. A wasp, bee or fly examines the lens of the background gathering camera and appears to be around a quarter the size of Field's head!
DV
DVB Cornwall
... and a mini rant ...

Why can't the BBC get their ob locations at Heathrow sorted so that they don't get interference from Airport activities? Sarkozy's welcome was, like many other occasions recently, spoilt by radar breakthrough.

Perhaps they need more fibre optic cables around the VIP area so that they can plug the camera postions directly into the network.
NG
noggin Founding member
DVB Cornwall posted:
... and a mini rant ...

Why can't the BBC get their ob locations at Heathrow sorted so that they don't get interference from Airport activities? Sarkozy's welcome was, like many other occasions recently, spoilt by radar breakthrough.

Perhaps they need more fibre optic cables around the VIP area so that they can plug the camera postions directly into the network.


The Beeb would only have a single fibre - if any - to a location like Heathrow. There is a feedpoint in one of the terminals - but I don't know if it is fibre or legacy coax.

The interference is usually caused by radar getting into the actual camera itself - not the circuit - so is often very difficult to get rid of.
DO
dosxuk
Radar also doesn't play very nicely with 2.4GHz radio links, as used on the majority of BBC News vans I've seen recently. If you're in the wrong place at the wrong height, you can struggle to get a usable signal back.

On analogue, it's characterised by a loss of sync and subcarriers at a regular interval, causing pictures and audio to jump / wobble. With digi-links, it often causes sufficient packet loss (on all recievers if in diversity mode) to render the stream unrecoverable, or to drop out until the next intraframe.

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