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itsrobert
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In all honesty, whilst I do think the current backdrop in N6 is awfully dull and would much prefer a newsroom setting once again, I can't say I dislike the desk-bound presentation.
Maybe I'm in a minority here, but in presentation terms I've always thought less is more. Maybe I have a poor attention span, but I find walking and talking, excessive graphics and very loud music rather distracting from the actual message they are trying to convey. I may be a little old fashioned in my opinion, but my ideal news presentation was in the 80s and 90s, when everything was a close-up of the newsreader with an inset over their shoulder. That was very easy to follow for me. Once I have to start reading graphics while simultaneously listen to the same information being spoken by the newsreader, I lose the thread. And if someone starts walking while they're talking I start focusing on how they're walking, what clothes they've got on, rather than on what they're saying.
I guess what I'm saying is that modern presentation doesn't suit my learning style. I was always the same in lectures; if the lecturer was saying something, I could listen and take it in straight away, but as soon as blackboards went out and PowerPoint came on the scene with copious amounts of text, I just ended up glazing over because I find it difficult to take in information in more than one way at a given time. However, I do appreciate that some people learn differently and need visual aids. I suspect that's why they started to jazz the news up in the last decade.
Maybe I'm in a minority here, but in presentation terms I've always thought less is more. Maybe I have a poor attention span, but I find walking and talking, excessive graphics and very loud music rather distracting from the actual message they are trying to convey. I may be a little old fashioned in my opinion, but my ideal news presentation was in the 80s and 90s, when everything was a close-up of the newsreader with an inset over their shoulder. That was very easy to follow for me. Once I have to start reading graphics while simultaneously listen to the same information being spoken by the newsreader, I lose the thread. And if someone starts walking while they're talking I start focusing on how they're walking, what clothes they've got on, rather than on what they're saying.
I guess what I'm saying is that modern presentation doesn't suit my learning style. I was always the same in lectures; if the lecturer was saying something, I could listen and take it in straight away, but as soon as blackboards went out and PowerPoint came on the scene with copious amounts of text, I just ended up glazing over because I find it difficult to take in information in more than one way at a given time. However, I do appreciate that some people learn differently and need visual aids. I suspect that's why they started to jazz the news up in the last decade.
