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The Politics Show

(September 2008)

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GR
gregmc
Those titles are hideous. A far better title sequence and identity before.
BU
buster
I'm glad they've finally got rid of the background of the White City building - that didn't make much sense other than "Andrew Marr uses a Westminster backdrop and this is all that's left"...
AN
Andrew Founding member
The opening titles look more suited to Traffic Cops than the Politics Show!
NG
noggin Founding member
tellywatcher posted:
Norma posted:
One in each half, usually, I think. Sometimes at the start of Andrew Marr's show, you see one of the guests on a purple chair.

Yep, one in each half. They dismantle the right side of the set when the Andrew Marr show has finished and usually leave the 'baking tray' empty whilst the Politics Show is on air.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/programmes_the_politics_show_exposed000/img/2.jpg
Taken from"The Poltics Show exposed..."slideshow.

ISTR that they don't always strike the Marr set before The Politics Show - though they sometimes do. I can remember seeing bits of the Marr set through the purple perspex panel.

The PS set and the Marr set are both got in on Saturday - and as others have spotted, the cutaways of guests at the top of the Marr show are shot from the Politics Show set. If there is ony one guest then they are often sat on a Marr chair. If there is more than one guest then they sit next to each other on the Politics Show sofa and the camera pans between them (out of vision)
NG
noggin Founding member
gregmc posted:
Those titles are hideous. A far better title sequence and identity before.


I liked the previous identity before a lot - very classy and well executed.

However the new one has a much clearer and more obvious graphic message to me - issues that people care about, locations across the UK. Execution is a bit more like This Week - and feels quite a lot simpler than the previous look - and if I'm honest, not as "classy". However classy isn't always what people want - it can be distancing. Sometimes simple and bold is more effective.

Not sure about the road sign on the carpet...
ST
Stuart
Semi-connected to the topic is that the Daily Politics had a bit of a revamp on its return today. New logo, titles and website (althought not in the new format).

Some minor tinkering appears to have happened in the studio (at Millbank, I believe) , with one of the large back projection screens being moved around. I wonder whether this is just for the "conference season".

This Week and some programmes for BBC Parliament are produced from the same set, so we shall see.

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/DP-1.jpg http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/DP-2.jpg

EDIT:
More than "minor tinkering". Looking again at those caps they have managed to make that tiny studio look even bigger (and I know the images are distorted by the camera anyway).
GR
gregmc
StuartPlymouth posted:
Semi-connected to the topic is that the Daily Politics had a bit of a revamp on its return today. New logo, titles and website (althought not in the new format).

Some minor tinkering appears to have happened in the studio (at Millbank, I believe) , with one of the large back projection screens being moved around. I wonder whether this is just for the "conference season".

This Week and some programmes for BBC Parliament are produced from the same set, so we shall see.

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/DP-1.jpg http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/DP-2.jpg

EDIT:
More than "minor tinkering". Looking again at those caps they have managed to make that tiny studio look even bigger (and I know the images are distorted by the camera anyway).


The set looks a lot better now, but whoever is in charge of these new graphics to both Daily Politics and The Politics Show should be shot! It looks like an explosion in PowerPoint 95!
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Is that projector screen real or superimposed? I wouldn't have thought there was space for back projection there!
TV
TV Monkey
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/banners/programmes/daily_politics/dailypolitics.jpg

My eyes, they burn.
DE
deejay
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Is that projector screen real or superimposed? I wouldn't have thought there was space for back projection there!


Looks like a Back Projector to me - the blacks are pretty "sat-up" (i.e. not very black) - often a sign of projection being used. As for space, you don't actually need as much as you might think. You can put the projector in a rig which fires it up and bounces it off a mirror onto the screen. It's an effective solution if space is tight behind a tight set, though the rig and mirror can be heavy, cumbersome and a beggar to adjust!
DE
deejay
From the screengrabs, it doesn't look too bad a set actually, though the graphics don't do a great deal for me and I agree with other correspondents that they look busy and a bit dated. I'll have to try and see it off air...
JC
JoandCo
One Word. Two Logos.
EWWWWWWWW!

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