RU
Credits scroll up the screen because you read from the top of the text to the bottom. If credit scrolled down, they'd be harder to read and your eye would get pulled down with them, meaning you might miss some of them. Kind of the same reason why English tickers go from right to left while Arabic ones go from left to right. That's why I think it would be unlikely for credits to scroll downwards.
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A former member
it could have been a comedy?
JO
I don't remember the programme but you are indeed correct that there was a comedy drama that did this but I'm not sure which one, I have also seen a few films scroll in the opposite direction
moss posted:
I have a question. Credits for UK programmes often scroll up the screen. But I'm sure that I've seen credits scrolling *down* the screen in the other direction on some programmes a few years ago.
Can anyone remember a programme which did this?
Can anyone remember a programme which did this?
I don't remember the programme but you are indeed correct that there was a comedy drama that did this but I'm not sure which one, I have also seen a few films scroll in the opposite direction
SA
Arabic tickers go left to right?Why?
rubberduck3y6 posted:
Credits scroll up the screen because you read from the top of the text to the bottom. If credit scrolled down, they'd be harder to read and your eye would get pulled down with them, meaning you might miss some of them. Kind of the same reason why English tickers go from right to left while Arabic ones go from left to right. That's why I think it would be unlikely for credits to scroll downwards.
Arabic tickers go left to right?Why?
BE
Arabic tickers go left to right?Why?
Because you read Arabic from right to left.
I've seen credits scroll in reverse before, but they were written with the first part (written by, producer etc) below the name. Don't remember the programme.
Ben
Founding member
saturdaymorning posted:
rubberduck3y6 posted:
Credits scroll up the screen because you read from the top of the text to the bottom. If credit scrolled down, they'd be harder to read and your eye would get pulled down with them, meaning you might miss some of them. Kind of the same reason why English tickers go from right to left while Arabic ones go from left to right. That's why I think it would be unlikely for credits to scroll downwards.
Arabic tickers go left to right?Why?
Because you read Arabic from right to left.
I've seen credits scroll in reverse before, but they were written with the first part (written by, producer etc) below the name. Don't remember the programme.
GM
nodnirG kraM
I think the credits to Pulp Fiction (or another Tarantino film) scroll backwards - ie top to bottom.
English is read left to right, top to bottom, so it's easiest to read text that simulates the passage of your eyes down a page - bottom to top or crawling right to left. As has been said, Arabic for example is read right to left, so Arabic credits and news tickers scroll in the opposite direction from English-language ones.
English is read left to right, top to bottom, so it's easiest to read text that simulates the passage of your eyes down a page - bottom to top or crawling right to left. As has been said, Arabic for example is read right to left, so Arabic credits and news tickers scroll in the opposite direction from English-language ones.
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A former member
I'm sure that applies to the Jewish writing as well
NH
Nick Harvey
Founding member
The original Crossroads used a mix of alternate up and left to right scrolling.
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James Vertigan
Founding member
Whilst we're on the subject of end credits, why do broadcasters feel the need to speed them up, even if the programme is not running late, or fade them out halfway through?
I can understand in the case of channels like ITV it's all about getting more money out of advertising - but why do the BBC do it when they only show programme trails?
I can understand in the case of channels like ITV it's all about getting more money out of advertising - but why do the BBC do it when they only show programme trails?