Sorry for the v. long post.
A few questions;
There seems to be many BBC News presenters who just present certain bulletins like ellie crissell. This must cost the licence payer a fortune for just a few hours/minutes work. Why does this happen ?
You do know right that they don't just turn up to just present bulletins, The News at Ten presenter will be there from about Eleven in the morning and just because they aren't on screen doesn't mean they're not working.
What is wrong with having World/News Channel presenters being on BBC 1 presenting the main news ? (rather than changing them before a BBC 1 News starts)
Nobody has said there is anything wrong with it, they're just saying that the luxury of the BBC One Bulletins offers either a changeover or a break for NC presenters, who at the weekend are doing up to 8 hours straight. Plus the afternoon presenter usually presents the Lunchtime Saturday Bulletin.
When is the messy looking NC set going to be changed ? It has gone down in history as the worst ever !
Is it messy? Yes some view the tracks as messy but actually they look pretty tidy if you look at it, they aren't like the backs of cameras from conventional studios with huge cables trailing along the floor.
Worst Ever? Have you forgotten the period it spent in
N6.
i.e. cheap, dated, distracting, fault ridden, confusing, small, tacky, gimmicky, the list could go on.
Cheap - It's the BBC, they can't spend too much or the Mail shouts at them. Plus it doesn't look pretty cheap.
Dated - Are you serious? It looks more high tech than most other news studios.
Distracting - Not really, most of the time the Newsroom backdrop is out of focus so unless you are trying to get distracted, I find it hard to get distracted.
Fault Ridden - OK It has some errors every now and again but then again, OK not as often, but most studios have some form of error every now and again. Camera faults are at max once a day.
Confusing - How can a set be confusing, it is now way near as confusing as those old Optical Illusion sets from the 80s.
Tacky - Tacky “Showing poor taste or quality”. I think you might want to rethink you word choice.
Gimmicky - It is a bit, but not to the extent of Sky’s ridiculous massive screen.
Does one person decide how these things look or is it done by a committee ?
The TV Company will subcontract out set design to a design specialist, thanks to Producer Choice, such as BDA (who have a monopoly over News set design in the UK)
Or did they take lessons from a programme in the nineties called 'The Day Today' - it was not real you know.
You know how on the Mail Online people who reference Orwell’s great 1984 is a perfect example of people who either haven’t watched it or didn’t fully get the gist of it? I’m beginning to feel that, that is how Chris Morris’s amazing The Day Today is now being used, is being used on this forum. If you are using it to critique Sky News’s general OTT graphics, set, music etc. then you are probably justified but the BBC is comparatively minimalist compared to Sky News.
How much TV Licence money are these 'creative' people paid ?
It depends on the work they do, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 you can try an request it, although the BBC will probably assume it is from the Mail.
When will the tired countdown be changed ?
What the popular, energetic, adrenalin pumping countdown sequence? Which is probably my favourite in image and one of best in music (Sorry but 2005 and 2007 Updates were better).
This post just eeks of the kind of people who go when is there going to be change, this is tired, change it now and then the minute the BBC change it you’re going ‘waste of license fee’ and angrily commenting on the MailOnline.