I had a big long rant and then deleted it... I wasn't really that impressed, big whoop they played the countdown music and had a "Happy New Year" bug on screen. It wasn't anything special, and just underlines how little the BBC think about their own visual presentation.
Why just a single camera shot, domestically on BBC 1 it was a multi-camera effort. Is even the coverage of bloody fireworks now subject to geographical rights restrictions !?
Why just a single camera shot, domestically on BBC 1 it was a multi-camera effort. Is even the coverage of bloody fireworks now subject to geographical rights restrictions !?
Why just a single camera shot, domestically on BBC 1 it was a multi-camera effort. Is even the coverage of bloody fireworks now subject to geographical rights restrictions !?
Why just a single camera shot, domestically on BBC 1 it was a multi-camera effort. Is even the coverage of bloody fireworks now subject to geographical rights restrictions !?
Yes.
So who did have the international rights then ?
Would they be separate rights per country/ region, limiting an international channel, or would there be rights for one super non-UK region?
Why just a single camera shot, domestically on BBC 1 it was a multi-camera effort. Is even the coverage of bloody fireworks now subject to geographical rights restrictions !?
Yes.
So who did have the international rights then ?
Would they be separate rights per country/ region, limiting an international channel, or would there be rights for one super non-UK region?
I'm astounded there should be any restriction for anybody. Surely (and particularly this year) it should be regarded as a promotional thing, so surely maximum coverage should be available to whoever is interested in taking it.
That said, I can't imagine any other country showed more than a few seconds anyway.
You'll be telling me next that anybody who uploaded their mobile phone pics of the event to social media etc could be prosecuted for infringing copyright ! ?
Why just a single camera shot, domestically on BBC 1 it was a multi-camera effort. Is even the coverage of bloody fireworks now subject to geographical rights restrictions !?
Yes.
So who did have the international rights then ?
Would they be separate rights per country/ region, limiting an international channel, or would there be rights for one super non-UK region?
I'm astounded there should be any restriction for anybody. Surely (and particularly this year) it should be regarded as a promotional thing, so surely maximum coverage should be available to whoever is interested in taking it.
You'll be telling me next that anybody who uploaded their mobile phone pics of the event to social media etc could be prosecuted for infringing copyright ! ?
The fireworks weren't copyright for obvious reasons but the sequence of the music and some of the shots used on BBC One were protected so other networks couldn't take up the pictures without having to pay for the rights.
As expected the schedule is changed so 11.30 GMT is no longer WBT/ST but World News bulletin for BBC2. Will be interesting to see if they make any presentation changes, so far everything's the same with Geeta presenting from the small pod set up.
I detected a new lighting column during an edition of Sport Today last night, and the camera almost crept out from behind it to then focus in on Francis Collings.
Not sure how to describe this, but if you imagine standing along what I imagine is the back camera wall facing towards the centre of the desk, in what would be a head on two shot, with the newsroom view in the background.
The new lighting column is almost directly opposite the main anchors position where, one would imagine, his/her camera would normally stand.
Of course, it may well have been that the column I saw was much further back along the wall towards the pod area, and just camera angle made it seem deeper into the studio.
It was illuminated in the same colouring of Sport Today. Initially I just thought I was seeing the inactive strip which often appears at the left hand side of the news wall. But when the camera started to move, it became evident that the pillar was closer to the camera than the news wall.