BBC Channel Islands News seemed to be experiencing some problems this evening. They had a live insert from Edward Sault, but didn't seem able to switch to it properly. He appeared on the screen in the BBC Jersey studio before they cut to a shot of the main presenter nodding. When they switched back to Edward, it was a very poor quality image - the studio camera had zoomed in on the plasma screen with multiple time-delayed reflections. Anyone know why they couldn't switch properly to the OB?
BBC Channel Islands News seemed to be experiencing some problems this evening. They had a live insert from Edward Sault, but didn't seem able to switch to it properly. He appeared on the screen in the BBC Jersey studio before they cut to a shot of the main presenter nodding. When they switched back to Edward, it was a very poor quality image - the studio camera had zoomed in on the plasma screen with multiple time-delayed reflections. Anyone know why they couldn't switch properly to the OB?
I wonder if it was actually planned like that, because the studio cameras they have there are on poles and I don't think can have their shot changed really easily, especially if there's only one person operating the gallery as there is most of the time.
Would it not have been possible to do a bit of overplugging in Plymouth to put PY output onto the circuit which usually carries the backhaul from Jersey to wherever the DSat coders are so that the circuit from Jersey to Plymouth could be used for contributions when it wasn't required for opts?
I would imagine that would require Siemens and several BBC departments to co-operate nowadays.
Is that really how they end every programme? After 15 minutes just show the end caption and wait for Spotlight? You'd have thought something along the lines of "now joining our colleagues/<insert name> at Spotlight" would be a bit smoother. I wonder how many islanders just switch off.
Is that really how they end every programme? After 15 minutes just show the end caption and wait for Spotlight? You'd have thought something along the lines of "now joining our colleagues/<insert name> at Spotlight" would be a bit smoother. I wonder how many islanders just switch off.
The whole programme seems a bit shoddy/on the cheap doesn't it - the presenter's a bit rubbish too isn't she (think she's called Gwyn Garfield-Bennett or something similar)
Can't really blame us for it if we do - Spotlight's as irrelevant to me as Look North would be to a resident of Truro, if not moreso . If we actually had 30 minutes of news to broadcast on a normal day I can't imagine anyone here missing Spotlight! That said, I'm sure I've heard "back to Justin and Victoria" plenty of times.
That live-via-camera-pointed-at-TV is something else though. At a bare minimum of acceptability they could have had a wide shot of the monitor on the set if the set allows for it, but even then I just wouldn't have bothered.
Makes me wonder if they get their captions up à la Pepper's Ghost...
That live-via-camera-pointed-at-TV is something else though. At a bare minimum of acceptability they could have had a wide shot of the monitor on the set if the set allows for it, but even then I just wouldn't have bothered.
Yes, that is the way the did it before the package and it didn't look great, the presenter looked uncomfortable trying to decide what to do to when she was not talking.
The feed is obviously coming into the building and onto the monitor, surely it's not too difficult to route it into a channel on the vision mixer too? I know BBC TV are many decades behind in serving the Channel Islands but it can't be that hard to do better than that
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 16 August 2011 12:22am
Is that really how they end every programme? After 15 minutes just show the end caption and wait for Spotlight? You'd have thought something along the lines of "now joining our colleagues/<insert name> at Spotlight" would be a bit smoother. I wonder how many islanders just switch off.
The whole programme seems a bit shoddy/on the cheap doesn't it - the presenter's a bit rubbish too isn't she (think she's called Gwyn Garfield-Bennett or something similar)
Gwyn Garfield-Bennett has also worked in tv under her maiden name of Gwyn Jones.