BBC One 2015

Well, the date on that clip must be incorrect as the National Lottery did not begin until 1994.

Yeah, that clip should be from Aug/Sept 1995.

Indeed, and Deadly arrived about six months in after a revamp which saw the draws move to TV Centre full time after their initial spell on the road, and the depature of Gordon Kennedy. Before that Turner and Kennedy used to read the numbers out themselves.

And of course in 1999 Deadly was dropped on the awful Red Alert to make way for Sid Waddell, but Sid made a complete mess of it and was dropped after one show.

A nice augmented reality menu for BBC One yesterday, not often we get a full menu rundown these days.

http://asahicks.com/uploads/bbc-one-fa-cup-menu.jpg

US broadcasters have been doing those for years during sports... (well promos anyways)

No one properly thought about the shadow, looks wrong alongside Dan Walker's

I'd argue that actually the fake shadow at least anchors the graphic in the shot, rather than looking overlaid, and at first glimpse you don't notice that it is technically wrong.

Presumably in the studio it is done in the same way that ITV News' studio works with the cameras reading the coded discs on the ceiling, but how do they create such shots in a stadium? I noticed that they used the drop down flag banners of the clubs logos coming off the top of the stadium during the coverage too.

Google Stype Grip

For this type of effect, you don't need to know where the camera is in a space (which is what the free-d disc system provides), just where the camera is pointing and it's field of view, which can all be measured on the mounting system.

I'm guessing, but perhaps GPS comes into it ?

Edit: Scrub that, just seen doseux's post

Very interesting stuff. Thank you for that tip - the examples on their website demonstrate it well.

I'm presuming that it's not capable of adding the graphics behind a presenter as all of the examples show graphics in front.

The Stype grip only* feeds a graphics system with positional data - it doesn't render the graphics, you'd use stuff like Vizrt for that. Putting graphics behind a presenter requires you to be able to key them out from the background (e.g. chroma key), a video function. So if you have your presenter in a green screen studio, you could use the Stype kit to feed the jib position to the graphics renderer and key the presenter out to put the graphics behind them. If you're on a football pitch, getting a suitable key would be, err, tricky - so no graphics behind them.

* It does a lot of other things too, but not relevant to the question.