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(January 2008)

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BR
britbat
I think you've all missed the point of this.

Clearly ITN have done some research and discovered that one of the most interesting and visually engaging methods of presenting information is the PowerPoint presentation.

What they've simply done is to take the most attractive aspects of Powerpoint (eg, the charming tendency for technical glitches, the distraction caused to the presenter, and the detraction from the presenter) and incorporated this into the News At Noon.

And, knowing how much people love nostalgia, the human interface device they have used is from an 1989 Amstrad - not only a design classic but it also comes complete with a charming click-click noise.

Brilliant!

Next week: George Alagiah presents the BBC Six O'Clock News from the production gallery - giving viewers a unique insight into television production as he calls cues, prepares live feeds, counts down to the opt - and reads the script!
BE
Ben Founding member
Londoner posted:
Trevor McDonald will also use a touch-screen on the new News at Ten (see NaT thread for Media Guardian link) - wonder if it's the same one C4 are using at noon?


I wouldn't expect Trevor to be doing anything like that, he can barely read an autocue. Julie will be using the touch screen however.
MO
Moz
Ben posted:
I wouldn't expect Trevor to be doing anything like that, he can barely read an autocue.

Laughing

Sir Trevor though if you don't mind!
GM
nodnirG kraM
britbat posted:
Next week: George Alagiah presents the BBC Six O'Clock News from the production gallery

That'll fuel the wet dreams of half the readership at least.

18 days later

LO
Londoner
From today's Snowmail
Jon Snow posted:
BRAVE NEWS WORLD (DIGITAL VERSION)

I’m going to let you into a small secret today, but an interesting one. This is a milestone in modern television news production. We have moved into half a new newsroom with completely new technology. There’s no paper, there’s no tangible video or film. Everything is digital. And those of us who were mad in the analogue age are now completely crazy in the digital follow-up.

Perhaps I should have made that a singular observation. The potential is fantastic - instant everything and instantly edited everything (perhaps I exaggerate a little). But the human capacity to keep up with it all and to ensure that the journalism does too - that is the real issue. You won’t notice any difference - well, not unless the entire thing blows up and blue smoke starts coming out of my ears. But we certainly hope that we will be able to provide you with an even better Channel 4 News than heretofore. The whole process of change will not be completed until well into April.

22 days later

MB
Mark Boulton
noggin posted:
imnogoth posted:
noggin posted:
Suddenly everyone seems to be doing it again, as if it were something new...
Who, other than C4, is doing this?

And what's the point? It just makes it look cheaper and that they didn't rehearse it or something! You can get away with it for something like the weather, but something that obvious!

Most of the US Network News operations - including CNN - have touch-plasmas or similar for "show and tell" explanations. John King was using one on the New Hampshire primaries coverage a day or two ago on CNN.


"Show and Tell". Rolling Eyes News stories too complicated for a 4-year-old to understand, delivered in a way designed to engage 4-year-olds.

No wonder it's nigh-on impossible to found any decent new presenting talent these days. This IS what all TV presenting will be one day; all Powerpoint-style presentations. After all, I'm sure Powerpoint is what all the fromages grandes at the 'grate five' broadcasters use in their 'positioning meetings'.

Grate? Cheese? Never mind... Razz
CO
Connews
Can we all keep a hush on the whole PowerPoint thing? Otherwise there will be some budding idiots who think it means they can produce mocks in said program.

*Shivers.*
MB
Mark Boulton
Connews posted:
Can we all keep a hush on the whole PowerPoint thing? Otherwise there will be some budding idiots who think it means they can produce mocks in said program.

*Shivers.*


But they won't be mocks - they'll be auditions for 'user generated presenting', which will land the authors jobs at BBC THREE, followed shortly afterwards by becoming 60 Seconds' "senior" (hah) presenter, followed by a swift move to the 8pm BBC ONE 'quickie', followed by a move to the Ten six months later. By this time the BBC will ALREADY be lagging behind the 'fresh new wave' of newscasting, in which all news bulletins are read by the type of people it concerns. For a story about the Health Service, a nurse will read the story on a camcorder sitting at her PC and clicking on her screen. Then a story about youth crime will be told, "how i' is, yeah?" by a hoodie on a street corner in Harlesden... you get the idea. The BBC by this time will have already faced considerable pressure to ditch the 'resident presenter' approach, no matter how 'in touch' their beloved Powerpoint mocker may be to them.
PC
p_c_u_k
Nice to see George Galloway make an absolute t*t of himself tonight on Channel 4 News. Apparently it's worse than Fox... Rolling Eyes

There's only two Al Fayeds....
SN
SN2005
p_c_u_k posted:
Nice to see George Galloway make an absolute t*t of himself tonight on Channel 4 News. Apparently it's worse than Fox... Rolling Eyes

There's only two Al Fayeds....


I assume his beef is with ITN rather than channel 4, I remember the crucifying he gave the ITV Lunchtime News in the 2005 elections because of ITN's 'bias'.
JO
Joshua
Yes, he also said that was the last time he would appear on ITN programmes Rolling Eyes
SN
SN2005
josh205 posted:
Yes, he also said that was the last time he would appear on ITN programmes Rolling Eyes


Wow, a politician with the same level of conviction as a wheelbarrow fulla sh!t - why am I not surprised?

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