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(March 2007)

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MO
moss Founding member
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?
RU
rubberduck3y6
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
Johnny83
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?


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
JO
Jon
Stich Up on CBBC.
SA
saturdaymorning
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
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.
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A former member
I'm sure that applies to the Jewish writing as well
DB
dbl
623058 posted:
I'm sure that applies to the Jewish writing as well

Hebrew?
NH
Nick Harvey Founding member
The original Crossroads used a mix of alternate up and left to right scrolling.
JV
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?

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