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Rob and Polly were using tablets at the end of the programme tonight. A new thing for SET?
CR
I caught tonight's South East Today and noticed a few slightly interesting things. First of all the presenter appeared to be cuing graphics to appear on the screens himself, evidenced by the way as the camera cut to him at the beginning of the programme he paused and then quickly looked down behind the desk and audibly tapped a key before starting speaking! However, as the presenter said the name of a reporter they were using in a live cross, the screen changed to the live shot, but there was no tapping of keys, so it was either timed well or the gallery controlled that portion!
They also had animated BBC Sport scoreboard graphics, which is interesting as most regions only have access to/use still slides for their sport graphics. The Sport graphics were all in Gill Sans, though.
They also had animated BBC Sport scoreboard graphics, which is interesting as most regions only have access to/use still slides for their sport graphics. The Sport graphics were all in Gill Sans, though.
HB
It doesn't seem like Rob was curing graphics, it seems to look like he had forgotten to plug in his microphone or earpiece or something rather then on a graphic front because he doesn't seem to do it in the late bulletin.
SET normally have Gill sans for their sport graphics but not sure whether it animated, IIRC I think I remember seeing them animate last time.
I caught tonight's South East Today and noticed a few slightly interesting things. First of all the presenter appeared to be cuing graphics to appear on the screens himself, evidenced by the way as the camera cut to him at the beginning of the programme he paused and then quickly looked down behind the desk and audibly tapped a key before starting speaking! However, as the presenter said the name of a reporter they were using in a live cross, the screen changed to the live shot, but there was no tapping of keys, so it was either timed well or the gallery controlled that portion!
They also had animated BBC Sport scoreboard graphics, which is interesting as most regions only have access to/use still slides for their sport graphics. The Sport graphics were all in Gill Sans, though.
They also had animated BBC Sport scoreboard graphics, which is interesting as most regions only have access to/use still slides for their sport graphics. The Sport graphics were all in Gill Sans, though.
It doesn't seem like Rob was curing graphics, it seems to look like he had forgotten to plug in his microphone or earpiece or something rather then on a graphic front because he doesn't seem to do it in the late bulletin.
SET normally have Gill sans for their sport graphics but not sure whether it animated, IIRC I think I remember seeing them animate last time.
DT
It doesn't seem like Rob was curing graphics, it seems to look like he had forgotten to plug in his microphone or earpiece or something rather then on a graphic front because he doesn't seem to do it in the late bulletin.
SET normally have Gill sans for their sport graphics but not sure whether it animated, IIRC I think I remember seeing them animate last time.
With the BBC Sport graphics every region only seems to get it part right - some use animations, some don't, some use Gotham, some use Gill Sans and I maybe right in thinking some regions still use the pre-2010 style graphics.
I caught tonight's South East Today and noticed a few slightly interesting things. First of all the presenter appeared to be cuing graphics to appear on the screens himself, evidenced by the way as the camera cut to him at the beginning of the programme he paused and then quickly looked down behind the desk and audibly tapped a key before starting speaking! However, as the presenter said the name of a reporter they were using in a live cross, the screen changed to the live shot, but there was no tapping of keys, so it was either timed well or the gallery controlled that portion!
They also had animated BBC Sport scoreboard graphics, which is interesting as most regions only have access to/use still slides for their sport graphics. The Sport graphics were all in Gill Sans, though.
They also had animated BBC Sport scoreboard graphics, which is interesting as most regions only have access to/use still slides for their sport graphics. The Sport graphics were all in Gill Sans, though.
It doesn't seem like Rob was curing graphics, it seems to look like he had forgotten to plug in his microphone or earpiece or something rather then on a graphic front because he doesn't seem to do it in the late bulletin.
SET normally have Gill sans for their sport graphics but not sure whether it animated, IIRC I think I remember seeing them animate last time.
With the BBC Sport graphics every region only seems to get it part right - some use animations, some don't, some use Gotham, some use Gill Sans and I maybe right in thinking some regions still use the pre-2010 style graphics.
DE
Sport graphics have always been a bit of a mishmash in the regions for some reason. A few years ago, many used their own style for sport graphics, based on the BBC news style, mainly because they weren't supplied with any templates to start from. With the 2008 (7?) lambic Nairn relaunch, the regions were instructed to use the BBC sport style for all graphics but again were only supplied with a limited kit of parts, leading to some getting it right, some getting it wrong and very few being able to animate them properly (3d fast animation with flares etc, great on Viz, hard to achieve with Aston/Clarity etc). This was the style that used DINcondensed and another font which escapes my memory. You still see this style appear every so often.
Sport themselves refreshed their graphics not long afterwards but without really telling the regions or forwarding them have the updated kit (the style now being black/yellow with Gotham font) Again, a few noticed and managed to get the bits together themselves and have a bash at it, but many continued with DINcondensed. With the most recent BBC news relaunch, they got the regions together much earlier on in the process and decided to crack the whole thing and provide everyone with a proper kit of parts for News, Sport and Local Radio branding (all of which are different) and provide a basic BigTed set of codes with which to get news lower thirds all in the right style to start with. As part of this we finally got given some individual elements of the sport branding which could be adapted within after effects to generate some better looking sport tables.
Another problem of course is that most regions don't have VizRT and often are making do with ageing Astons which struggle to achieve anything particularly whizzy. Hence why most regional name straps fade on and off rather than animate as they should... The Aston I used to use routinely is approaching 25 years old and was originally bought for the Hull subopt when it was made at Leeds...
Sport themselves refreshed their graphics not long afterwards but without really telling the regions or forwarding them have the updated kit (the style now being black/yellow with Gotham font) Again, a few noticed and managed to get the bits together themselves and have a bash at it, but many continued with DINcondensed. With the most recent BBC news relaunch, they got the regions together much earlier on in the process and decided to crack the whole thing and provide everyone with a proper kit of parts for News, Sport and Local Radio branding (all of which are different) and provide a basic BigTed set of codes with which to get news lower thirds all in the right style to start with. As part of this we finally got given some individual elements of the sport branding which could be adapted within after effects to generate some better looking sport tables.
Another problem of course is that most regions don't have VizRT and often are making do with ageing Astons which struggle to achieve anything particularly whizzy. Hence why most regional name straps fade on and off rather than animate as they should... The Aston I used to use routinely is approaching 25 years old and was originally bought for the Hull subopt when it was made at Leeds...