So...what did people think of 'Fallout' this evening? Aside from being a bit over-dramatic, I thought it was very well done. The acting was incredibly believable and it was obvious that a lot of effort was put into the production. The BBC News 24 parts were interesting...just like the way the channel is in real life. Curious how the real tower was used but the rest of the graphics were very Powerpoint in style despite looking exactly the same as real graphics.
The only criticism I would have is the RTÉ News parts... . The graphics were
well
outside the safe area and the titles were cropped to 16:9. But I suppose it would be difficult to make a 4:3 graphics package look perfect in 16:9! If only they waited until September...I wonder why they didn't use a real newscaster??? A bit daft that News 24 provided two real ones but yet the broadcaster who actually made the programme didn't!
Yes the safe-areas were terrible for News.
Overall well made - the acting for once was very natural. News-wise the News 24 element was much better than the promos gave reason to believe - very credible indeed.
It was funny the way during the whole programme greater emphasis was constantly placed on News 24 rather than RTÉ News, with the BBC getting more airtime - just like viewers' choices in real life
BBC had up-to-the-minute reports and decent footage and competent preseneting, while RTÉ had some Anglo-Irish accented twit with too much headroom chatting inanely to a musty aul professor hauled in from TCD, casting shadows on the wall behind him!
Wonderfully believable! Couldn't have represented things better if they tried! A perfect true-to-life representation!
BBC had up-to-the-minute reports and decent footage and competent preseneting, while RTÉ had some Anglo-Irish accented twit with too much headroom chatting inanely to a musty aul professor hauled in from TCD, casting shadows on the wall behind him!
Wonderfully believable! Couldn't have represented things better if they tried! A perfect true-to-life representation!
Amazing how accurate it was, wasn't it? One gets the impression that the producers just sent a letter to BBC News and to RTE News, asking for what they wanted, included a cheque, and left the rest up to them.
The BBC then produced some sort of credible product, RTE News Dept.... produced a usual high standard RTE News bulletin, the only differences being that a) the newsreader was an actor and b) the graphics were even cràppier then usual.
I really enjoyed Fallout tonight
Other than the fact I was scared s**t thinking of it seeing as I live on the eastern coast at a port town, it was very well
I agree that RTEs effort was rather bad for mocking a news special. The BBC was excellent
I was talking to someone on MSN who said their grandmother called up to tell them to watch the news as something had happened...this shows the warning that it wasnt a true news broadcast wasn't the clearest. I feel a ticker or a CNN style flicker would of been suited more.
It was very good indeed but I can only hope that the influence it has on the public could help the situation at the moment in relation to Sellafield
Perhaps the most frightening parts were also those that were the most sensationalist - the tonnes of grainy news footage that was being aired. footage that simply wouldn't exist with such an event. Grainy footage with poor audio instantly generates a sense of fear and bewilderment and things being out of control.
But what exactly was this footage being shot on?! Would RTÉ be standing about at Dun Laoghaire port, a ten minute drive away from RTÉ HQ and all their resources, with mere videophones?! And the footage wouldn't be from cameraphones either as who would be casually standing about next to radioactive people recording on their phones?! A lot of that grainy footage was just classic news cliché, and just too sensationalist in my view.
And yes the use of an actor as a replacement for who was clearly supposed to be Bryan Dobson was just too distractingly apparent to be in any way credible. Also his script was very poor - making nothing but casual remarks and off-the-cuff questions and raised eyebrow expressions to camera. Also the reporters, to be finnicky about things, were equally poor. Again the BBC's reporter was superb, but RTÉ's were nothing short of cringe-inducing, especially that London Editor - woeful! Brian O'Connell must be fuming! And that other roighst roighst reporter standing outside Government Buildings was so embarrassing! You'd think RTÉ would have more confidence in their own team and try and get as many mature, distinguished actors as possible. Instead they portray themselves in the worst way possible, ironically as true-to-life as they could ever have tried!
Other than news though it was very well done - a bit more coverage of the impact on the rest of the country wouldn't have gone amiss though, as well as even a small indication of the impact on the UK to give a broader picture. You'd think Dublin was the centre of the universe...
Other than news though it was very well done - a bit more coverage of the impact on the rest of the country wouldn't have gone amiss though, as well as even a small indication of the impact on the UK to give a broader picture. You'd think Dublin was the centre of the universe...
Well the conclusion is on Monday at 930pm. It may have more of outsider views moreso than the Dublin only.
Just thinking that it would make some sence to broadcast that on BBC One to open the eyes of the British government [not going into a politcol talk here] but it worked in a way with the mock up of the London Chemical Attack about a year or more ago. Its the same principal really and the BBC got involved in it too, they should show it TBH
I got the slight impression that the mock RTÉ News reports were possibly trying not to be credible, possibly fears on RTÉ's part that casual viewers would mistake it for an actual RTÉ news broadcast. The RTÉ graphics, other than the titles, never looked like anything other than mocks of the real graphics (mind you, same could be said for News Extra on your typical Friday night...).
The BBC package, on the other hand, looked just like the real thing, only the incorrect time on the clock might have given it away. Thing is though, many Irish people still are not too familar with BBC News 24's existance (it having not been available here for years after it launched), and one is less likely to believe a fake BBC news bulitten on RTÉ One than a fake RTÉ News bulitten. Had it been Sky News that was providing the face of UK news, it might have been more realistic (for most Irish people, Sky News is 24 hour news).
Tonights was just dire
Why do RTE have to go following a skanger around their sleazy crappy life? I just was bored watching it for most of it tonight. Glad it was over in the end!
As well as that I looked at the credits at the end and I belive the "actor" who was the anchorman on RTE was infact Denis Tuohy....this is taken from tv-ark:::
Long time ITN presenter, Denis Tuohy, had a short stint presenting South Today.
Denis was due to launch BBC 2 on the 20th April 1964, but for a power failure! He did however feature in a news bulletin the following evening!
that might of been where the english accent came from!
Already there seems to be a consensus on the internt (and in my house) as to how appalling Part 2 was. The first episode was a decent attempt, but Part Two was just terribly misconceived and they know it. The entire nation has fallen apart and they devote most of the programme to the trials and tribulations of a smug D4 former-exec, and a depressed Garda in London.
Bored to tears watching it. It's not even as if the human interest element was touching either - it couldn't be because it's not real. Came across a bit farcical to be honest which is a shame. The acting was superb however - excellent in fact.
Yep, part 2 was terrible. No new mock news bulittens, but instead concentrating on depressing stories of the "victims" of the disaster. The bits with the working class kids who had taken over a contaminated D4 house were cringing. Surprised they managed to get David McWilliams on it though...
Yep, part 2 was terrible. No new mock news bulittens, but instead concentrating on depressing stories of the "victims" of the disaster. The bits with the working class kids who had taken over a contaminated D4 house were cringing. Surprised they managed to get David McWilliams on it though...
I wanted to see more mock bullitains to be honest...BBC style one-year on report would of been interesting.
The working class thing actualy made me just turn on music over watching it, and many people I know said either the accent drove through them or they turned off.
I felt it was rather wierd to have David on it. I was hoping that it may of been in the same style as the first part and going around differnt areas of the country being effected but instead it was just totally dire.
. The graphics were
well
outside the safe area and the titles were cropped to 16:9. But I suppose it would be difficult to make a 4:3 graphics package look perfect in 16:9! If only they waited until September...I wonder why they didn't use a real newscaster??? A bit daft that News 24 provided two real ones but yet the broadcaster who actually made the programme didn't!