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2019 General Christmas election.

12th December: NO drama just presentation. (October 2019)

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RK
Rkolsen
Rich Tea posted:
I'm very surprised Johnson turned up to the debate wearing a red tie. Shocked


Here in the US I seem to recall on the debates put on by the commission where is the two top presidential contenders they’ve typically wore the ties with the opposing color (Replubicans blue, Democrats red). However last session with Trump/Clinton it was different.

Anyway red is supposedly a power color.
MA
Markymark
Neil Jones posted:
DeMarkay posted:
Do they deliberately make their sets to look like game/quiz shows?


The "modern game show look", primarily black with a splash of colour in a studio that from the cameras looks like half the size of Wales seems to be the norm for a lot of things these days, never mind just for game shows.


Shiny floor, stedicam, 90% of the audience there to do no more than clap/boo/cheer, big build up, big post mortem. Certainly got all the DNA of a Saturday night entertainment show
Last edited by Markymark on 7 December 2019 9:23am
CU
Custard56
This has probably been answered before but is there a reason why the BBC election trailers are 4:3 safe with the vertical letterbox effect?
CH
chris
Jay Lee posted:
This has probably been answered before but is there a reason why the BBC election trailers are 4:3 safe with the vertical letterbox effect?


I think it’s a style thing.
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TH
Thistle
BBC Scotland HQ is busy today preparing for their overnight election coverage... The Seven, Seven Days and The Nine will be moved to the floor above for the next week. You can see it tonight from 7pm on BBC Scotland.
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OM
Omnipresent
The Christmas tree outside NBH has had a rather undignified and premature departure from the piazza ahead of election night:



Last edited by Omnipresent on 7 December 2019 10:10pm
DV
DVB Cornwall
Shredded Tree V2 from PM's Luke Jones .... (have a look at the responses)



AN
Andrew Founding member
Oh dear, what a fiasco, it’s like those stories you read in the local press that are picked up by the nationals when councils bodge up their Christmas trees.

It’s also like an scene from W1A
RK
Rkolsen
Now:





Now why are they cutting it branch by branch. Can’t they just take it down, chop it up that way and put it in the wood chipper.

I guess I see how it could be a security risk - people could climb on it during the election, but isn’t the piazza normally cordoned off on election night?
NG
noggin Founding member
My understanding is that it wasn't actually a security risk, more a right of way issue.

There is a minimum width of walkway that needs to be retained as the piazza route from Hallam Street to Great Portland/Regent Street is a public right of way, and I suspect the space required for the election rig, combined with a Christmas tree, may have compromised this. As a result the tree needed to be moved or removed.

There are suggestions that the plan was to initially move the tree off-site and return it post-election, but it appears that the gardening company were not able to do this.
MA
Markymark
noggin posted:

There is a minimum width of walkway that needs to be retained as the piazza route from Hallam Street to Great Portland/Regent Street is a public right of way,


I've tried looking up what that width is. In rural locations it's 1.5 metres. I can't find anything definitive that applies to urban locations ?

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