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AxG
David posted:
The promo for Mr Stink is shown with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. The sparkles around the BBC One logo protrude slightly in to the bottom bar. Obviously this is just because the BBC One logo has just been placed on top of the promo by a template or something so that it is in the same place on all promos.

What is stranger is that the stink coming out of Mr Stink, which is CGI, also protrude in to the black bar at the bottom of the screen. How has this happened? Has the promo been made from unfinished clips, from before the CGI was finished properly? Why has something made for TV got black bars at the top and bottom of the screen anyway?

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tomo359
David posted:
The promo for Mr Stink is shown with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. The sparkles around the BBC One logo protrude slightly in to the bottom bar. Obviously this is just because the BBC One logo has just been placed on top of the promo by a template or something so that it is in the same place on all promos.

What is stranger is that the stink coming out of Mr Stink, which is CGI, also protrude in to the black bar at the bottom of the screen. How has this happened? Has the promo been made from unfinished clips, from before the CGI was finished properly? Why has something made for TV got black bars at the top and bottom of the screen anyway?


The black bars are used as a promotional aid. They are often used in promos even when the thing being advertised isn't shown with black bars.

The "stink" going over the black bars was done on purpose to add effect to the promo, another promotional aid. I've seen this a few times, you often see it in opening titles for shows which have black bars but elements of the titles go into the black bars.

Not sure why this promo has bothered people so much, its quite a common technique.
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davidhorman
Quote:
Why has something made for TV got black bars at the top and bottom of the screen anyway?


Short answer, if this is how it's been made - cos it looks posher. They might have taken advantage of it to make more of a gimmick of the effects, too.

Weren't those Poliakoff dramas a few years back shown in wider-than-widescreen? The more recent Page Eight (which was BBC Films and did have some theatrical release as well, I think) was also 2.35:1.

David
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madmusician
It seems to have been made in 2.35:1, as it was framed for 3D (and will be broadcast in this way on the BBC HD channel).

More information here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/12/mr_stink_3d.html
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thegeek Founding member
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Pete Founding member
boke
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paul_hadley
"The perfect curtain raiser to Christmas... The Graham Norton Show at 10:35"

Ident change, or am I reading too much into that announcer just now?
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bilky asko
Pete posted:
boke

Translation below.
Balk.
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JAS84
thegeek posted:
Why is the BBC One logo blue?
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thegeek Founding member
JAS84 posted:
Why is the BBC One logo blue?


Because it was a quicky cameraphone shot of a monitor, and the auto white balance didn't really work very well. The logo was, in fact, white.

(Also, for the definition of boke - I'd normally spell it boak - see #1 & 2 at UrbanDictionary)
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cylon6
thegeek posted:


How did I miss this? When did this trailer go out?
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Westy2
NC countdown into Breakfast transmitted on BBC ONE.

Is that just over Christmas or likely more permanment?

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