I'd forgotten yellow signified breaking news. What colour is it when all the news has been broken? I don't think I've ever seen it.
Black when the News is broken, although it's Black for about 30 minutes during the whole day anyway. They take Breaking News way too seriously. It may not be Breaking on Skynews.com, but you can always bet it'll still be on the channel.
And I fear the BBC are trying to compete. More often than not now I turn on the TV and the ticker is red.
Some wishes from me for ITV's election night coverage are
- same music as the last two Elections
- they don't just use a lightly altered version of the normal ITV News look, both in terms of set and graphics
- They use a solid set rather than green screen
- They don't do it on the cheap and are a close rival to the BBC's coverage
- There is decent length regional coverage on the Friday
Some wishes from me for ITV's election night coverage are
- same music as the last two Elections
- they don't just use a lightly altered version of the normal ITV News look, both in terms of set and graphics
- They use a solid set rather than green screen
- They don't do it on the cheap and are a close rival to the BBC's coverage
- There is decent length regional coverage on the Friday
I wonder how much of that is likely to happen?
on the music - someone from the ITV News thread says there will be new music, more to tie in with the current music.
On the set - I should imagine there'll use the an altered version of the current set & the virtual House of Commons - but based on the US election's I thought that was really well done.
They are of course going to do it cheaper than the BBC - they haven't got as big as budget! - but sometimes being smaller and having less correspondents is better, rather than lots of unrecongnisable faces on the BBC.
Some wishes from me for ITV's election night coverage are
- same music as the last two Elections
- they don't just use a lightly altered version of the normal ITV News look, both in terms of set and graphics
- They use a solid set rather than green screen
- They don't do it on the cheap and are a close rival to the BBC's coverage
- There is decent length regional coverage on the Friday
I wonder how much of that is likely to happen?
Well, wishes one and three are not going to happen. As sstripling has said, it has been stated in the ITV thread that the music is a new composition with elements of the 2009 theme. As far as sets go, I believe it's all virtual but the design will be very different. Not a bit of yellow in sight (but then again, what's new on election night? )
"On the cheap": the US election coverage on ITV was clearly more intimate than the BBC, but it didn't come across as cheaply done at all. They had a decent amount of correspondents and anchors live from the US and a good list of names being interviewed. The only thing I didn't like about it was that god-awful red gradient they put on the studio floor. I didn't take to the "bay window" that the BBC used in Washington either.
On the subject of election night music I await to hear what the BBC have come up with to replace their well-known theme. Does anyone know whether or not it is being composed by Dave Lowe so as to tie in with the current BBC News music? Just interested as that is what ITN has opted for this time round.
I think the 'excitement' of breaking news has all but completely diminished over the last few years - the idea of tickers has been a brilliant addition to news channels in recent years but 'breaking news' simply doesn't stand out anymore.
Labour seem to be demonstrating one of the downsides of massive LED screens at their manifesto launch. As well as the horribly distracting moire patterning, it appears to be sucking up all the bits in the MPEG coding and taking all the detail out of Brown's face.
Labour seem to be demonstrating one of the downsides of massive LED screens at their manifesto launch. As well as the horribly distracting moire patterning, it appears to be sucking up all the bits in the MPEG coding and taking all the detail out of Brown's face.
Yep, it was a good chance to see the reason why Sky have those special diffusers in front of the LED panels in the newswall. At times there was so much moire it was virtually unbroadcastable.
Interesting noting the amount of election coverage on both the BBC and ITV "Tens". Last night's Ten O'Clock News had just over 10 minutes devoted to the election before moving onto the rest of the day's news, but it seemed fairly flat and - dare I say it - quite boring. News at Ten on ITV gave the election a bit over 20 minutes yesterday and again tonight (I'm not sure about the BBC as I stuck with ITV tonight). Whereas the BBC's 10 minutes yesterday came across as somewhat stodgy, ITV's 20 minute reporting on the election (especially tonight) was much more engaging in terms of language and questions raised during reports. The opinion polls they are doing this week are pretty interesting too. In addition to the 20 minutes tonight, there were two additional reports in the second half of News at Ten on the manifestos for UKIP and Plaid Cymru respectively. On ITV the facts were present but the programme wasn't overloaded with statistics; the language was less formal than the BBC but in no way dumbed down.
Say what you like about ITV but at times like this, it's fully deserving of this praise. Now if only they could act like this all year round...!
Anyway the next three Thursdays will prove to be interesting indeed... just wondering how many millions will commit to watching three politicians for 90 minutes.
Interesting noting the amount of election coverage on both the BBC and ITV "Tens". Last night's Ten O'Clock News had just over 10 minutes devoted to the election before moving onto the rest of the day's news, but it seemed fairly flat and - dare I say it - quite boring. News at Ten on ITV gave the election a bit over 20 minutes yesterday and again tonight (I'm not sure about the BBC as I stuck with ITV tonight). Whereas the BBC's 10 minutes yesterday came across as somewhat stodgy, ITV's 20 minute reporting on the election (especially tonight) was much more engaging in terms of language and questions raised during reports. The opinion polls they are doing this week are pretty interesting too. In addition to the 20 minutes tonight, there were two additional reports in the second half of News at Ten on the manifestos for UKIP and Plaid Cymru respectively. On ITV the facts were present but the programme wasn't overloaded with statistics; the language was less formal than the BBC but in no way dumbed down.
Say what you like about ITV but at times like this, it's fully deserving of this praise. Now if only they could act like this all year round...!
Anyway the next three Thursdays will prove to be interesting indeed... just wondering how many millions will commit to watching three politicians for 90 minutes.
I completely agree with you ITV News have been really good over the last few weeks - as said in the ITV News thread - I wonder if the opinion polls setup is a slight glimpse of the Election Night coverage -
Also yeah although there just stats James Mates seems to at least make them a bit intresting - are the polls just for this week or up until the election?
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