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headliner101
Moz posted:
eoin posted:
Moz posted:

I do miss a proper TVF completely-in-the-dark relaunch. The Sky News 2005 relaunch was excellent. Nobody had a bloody clue what was going to happen until 6am, and then the completely OTT studio flythrough and music and walking around wowed us all.

Here, we already know what the graphics are going to be like from having seen them on World. The BBC have admittedly done a fairly good job of stopping people taking photographs of Studio E, but then they released a trailer last week that gave us a fairly good look at it, and now today we've been shown the TOTH sequence. There's almost no point in watching at 1 tomorrow. Obviously relaunches can't be orchestrated in a certain way just for the benefit of pres geeks on the internet, but it's a shame that TV companies don't go for the secretive 'big bang' relaunch any more.

Still, we should get a new countdown, so that's something to look forward to.

Agreed. While I'm always hunting high and low to get just the tiniest tit-bit of information, it does seem this time that we practically know almost exactly what we're going to see tomorrow already. This is mainly because we've already seen a studio which is practically identical to the NC's already on air.


Which begs the question why didn't they re-launch N24 and WN at the same time? And to make matters less suspenseful, NN, Marr and SPol have been operating at NBH for quite some time now.
PE
Pete Founding member
bilky asko posted:
There is a need, because you would bring it up every time a slight jitter appeared, and used an awful reference that was never funny, or relevant.


+1
AS
Asa Admin
headliner101 posted:
Which begs the question why didn't they re-launch N24 and WN at the same time?

The risk of launching two channels on the same day far outweighs any annoyance at the fact most of the changes would been revealed. Far better for one channel to firefight the serious issues and niggles than both.
CH
chris
headliner101 posted:
Moz posted:
eoin posted:
Moz posted:

I do miss a proper TVF completely-in-the-dark relaunch. The Sky News 2005 relaunch was excellent. Nobody had a bloody clue what was going to happen until 6am, and then the completely OTT studio flythrough and music and walking around wowed us all.

Here, we already know what the graphics are going to be like from having seen them on World. The BBC have admittedly done a fairly good job of stopping people taking photographs of Studio E, but then they released a trailer last week that gave us a fairly good look at it, and now today we've been shown the TOTH sequence. There's almost no point in watching at 1 tomorrow. Obviously relaunches can't be orchestrated in a certain way just for the benefit of pres geeks on the internet, but it's a shame that TV companies don't go for the secretive 'big bang' relaunch any more.

Still, we should get a new countdown, so that's something to look forward to.

Agreed. While I'm always hunting high and low to get just the tiniest tit-bit of information, it does seem this time that we practically know almost exactly what we're going to see tomorrow already. This is mainly because we've already seen a studio which is practically identical to the NC's already on air.


Which begs the question why didn't they re-launch N24 and WN at the same time? And to make matters less suspenseful, NN, Marr and SPol have been operating at NBH for quite some time now.


Oh yes, let's forget about all the technical issues in moving one of the world's largest news operations to a completely new and barely tested building just so there can be a bit of suspense for a tiny minority of the population. Come on!

This thread is descending into the Daybreak thread....could people please think before they post? Just trawled through six pages of nothing but pointless speculation, unnecessary 'mocks' and questions that were answered a mere page before, with many posts making no grammatical sense so you have to read them about four times before you understand what the poster is on about.

Please read through your post before you click submit: think 'does it make sense?', 'is this likely to have been answered?' and 'is this a stupid question?' and it won't infuriate many older members.

*rant over*

Looking forward to tomorrow.
RO
rob Founding member
chris posted:


This thread is descending into the Daybreak thread....could people please think before they post? Just trawled through six pages of nothing but pointless speculation, unnecessary 'mocks' and questions that were answered a mere page before, with many posts making no grammatical sense so you have to read them about four times before you understand what the poster is on about.

Please read through your post before you click submit: think 'does it make sense?', 'is this likely to have been answered?' and 'is this a stupid question?' and it won't infuriate many older members.

*rant over*

Looking forward to tomorrow.


Hear, hear.

It's going to be an exciting day tomorrow. Looking forward to it all!
GE
thegeek Founding member
I've just been for a wander around the News Centre, which is looking rather sad and lonely - only a couple of dozen staff left in the newsroom. While I was there, a director took down the 'On Air' light from above N6's gallery door - he said he was going to get folk to autograph it, and bring it down to BH as a souvenir of TVC.
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Worzel
Nick Higham just joined Maxine Mawhinney in the studio to talk about tomorrow's move.

They also featured a distance shot of Studio E which has Chris Eakin and Sophie Long at the desk.

Apparently, a 'memo' went round to all staff today to call it simply 'Broadcasting House' from tomorrow.

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flaziola
So are we going to get two pans of the news room every TOTH? One prerecorded on the Countdown, as is being used on World at the minute, and one after the title sequence?
PE
peterrocket Founding member
Moz posted:

Technically the newsroom pan and wideshot of the studio is part of the titles. The title music seems to be halfway through when it cuts to the newsroom.


From that clip it the current titles music is laid on top of the new opening sequence. There's a few missing drums Wink
MD
mdtauk
So should we assume the titles have no endboard now with the sweep and wideshot? Will the 1, 6 and 10 still feature in the bulletin titles still?
MO
Moz
mdtauk posted:
So should we assume the titles have no endboard now with the sweep and wideshot? Will the 1, 6 and 10 still feature in the bulletin titles still?

Perhaps the 1, 6, or 10 will be prominent on the screens in the studio as they do the wide shot?
HA
harshy Founding member
rob posted:
chris posted:


This thread is descending into the Daybreak thread....could people please think before they post? Just trawled through six pages of nothing but pointless speculation, unnecessary 'mocks' and questions that were answered a mere page before, with many posts making no grammatical sense so you have to read them about four times before you understand what the poster is on about.

Please read through your post before you click submit: think 'does it make sense?', 'is this likely to have been answered?' and 'is this a stupid question?' and it won't infuriate many older members.

*rant over*

Looking forward to tomorrow.


Hear, hear.

It's going to be an exciting day tomorrow. Looking forward to it all!


Yeah I am sorry for posting my two mocks on page 599, I should know better really I been here for a long time, don't know even know what came over me, having said that I reckon those lower thirds I did in the mocks, is what we'll see tomorrow, its always exciting when BBC News relaunches, and this I reckon is their biggest relaunch purely as they are moving away from TVC.

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