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Election 2005 -Pre-Election discussion here

Line-ups, studio's, presentation etc.... (February 2005)

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CA
cat
Some high-res images of Sky News Active.

http://informitv.com/images/articles/sky/election2005/active.jpg
http://informitv.com/images/articles/sky/election2005/extra.jpg
CY
cylon6
I love watching the election for the computer graphics, for years the BBC and Peter Snow had the best but I think they were caught out last time by ITV. Peter just had a virtual reality swingometer and ITV had a virtual reality studio, since then the BBC have been playing catch-up and I expect spectacular stuff tonight. I didn't think ITV's virtual reality looked too bad. Quite intrigued to hear the BBC have a whole virtual reality studio.
RH
richard h
Hazzamon posted:
Here's the multi-headlined 1 o'clock BBC News simulcast if anyone wants to have a gander (unfortunatley due to webspace reasons, I had to cut the lovely 50 second countdown beforehand Sad):

Click Here (3.5mb WMV)


can you upload the 50 second countdown now please or have you not got enough space
IS
Inspector Sands
tvmercia posted:
as posted over in the midlands thread ...

tvmercia posted:
patrick said, and i quote "its a new departure for us, here in the midlands we will have constant screen updates throughout the night ..."

are we talking about an election version of kays system Laughing (or perhaps not) or a midlands ticker over network, or is patrick getting excited over some graphics they'll overlay during midlands opts?


have we had local election info overlayed onto network before? is patrick talking about a ticker? and are all the regions bothering?


Yes there are no traditional opt-outs, each region will overlay graphics at the bottom of the screen with local results
IS
Inspector Sands
tvmercia posted:
as posted over in the midlands thread ...

tvmercia posted:
patrick said, and i quote "its a new departure for us, here in the midlands we will have constant screen updates throughout the night ..."

are we talking about an election version of kays system Laughing (or perhaps not) or a midlands ticker over network, or is patrick getting excited over some graphics they'll overlay during midlands opts?


have we had local election info overlayed onto network before? is patrick talking about a ticker? and are all the regions bothering?


Yes there are no traditional opt-outs, each region will overlay graphics at the bottom of the screen with local results
AN
All New Johnnyboy
cat posted:
Yuck

http://informitv.com/images/articles/bbc/election2005/multiscreen.jpg

Hope the graphics in Dimbleby's box aren't the ones they'll be using on the night.


Not enough flashing lights and moving graphics, eh?

The graphics there look thankfully understated and static. Much nicer than Sky's garish graphics packages.

The BBC interactive layout and content seems a lot less superfluous than Sky's 'sixteen' screens.

I like both BBC and Sky, but Sky's presentation this election has been crap. Their content and coverage have been fine however.
IS
Inspector Sands
From what I've seen the BBCs programme looks very nice. Plain and functional - white graphics with the parties using their own colours
CY
cylon6
cat posted:
Yuck



Hope the graphics in Dimbleby's box aren't the ones they'll be using on the night.


Can I ask where you got that picture from?
MO
Moz
http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/images/main_promo/news/bbc_election_team_r_1.jpg
Why's Jan Hill on this picture? What'll be her input to the coverage? Is News 24 simulcasting with BBC One all night, and if so how will they cover the rest of the news? Will there be opt outs for N24 to do headlines now and again, and is this where Jane comes in?
MR
mromega
Some pics from the BBC's set up at Gatehead Quayside. Basically a large white board with a UK map on it and each of the 646 constituencies outlined ready to coloured in, a huge paint by numbers if you will.

The camera will probably be mounted at the top of the Baltic Art Gallery looking down straight onto the map.

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/bbc_gtshd_1.jpg
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/bbc_gtshd_2.jpg
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/bbc_gtshd_3.jpg
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/bbc_gtshd_4.jpg
SP
Spencer
cylon6 posted:
I love watching the election for the computer graphics, for years the BBC and Peter Snow had the best but I think they were caught out last time by ITV. Peter just had a virtual reality swingometer and ITV had a virtual reality studio, since then the BBC have been playing catch-up and I expect spectacular stuff tonight. I didn't think ITV's virtual reality looked too bad. Quite intrigued to hear the BBC have a whole virtual reality studio.


I think the 1992 swingometer was my favourite. It had a proper mechanical arm which controlled the on-screen graphics behind it - a rather nice hybrid of new and old!
AP
AdamP
I see the ticker on the roof of TVC is up and running already today.

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