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NG
noggin Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
Whataday posted:
When a soundbite of an interviewee or news/sport clip is used in a headline sequence to tell the story rather than a voiceover, it's referred to as a SOT.

Not just in a headline sequence though. SOTs are any clip in a news programme that has sound that can't be talked over, usually a person talking.

The opposite is a Underlay (ULAY) or cover (CVR) which is picture and sound which is intended to be talked over - a ULAY is an item in itself, CVR is stuff that can be floated on top of an interview


Or if you work at the BBC :
ULAY = OOV (Out Of Vision) - often shorthand for VT OOV, or SVR/TX OOV, but can also be a GFX OOV, an OS OOV etc.
CVR=FLOAT/FLT (pictures you 'float' over). Not to be confused with 'Floating' an item in an order (which means removing it in a newsroom computer system without deleting it or dropping it)

WP = Wallpaper is another term used for ULAY, as is LVO (Live Voice Over) but that's more ITN I think. (BBC Elstree used to use it)

OOV is such a ubiquitous term it's used as a noun ("Have you cut the Trump OOV?") and a verb ("We'll OOV over OS1 until they start the presser")
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IS
Inspector Sands
Oh yeah, I worked in an OOV newsroom for years and then went to a ULAY one for even more years so I got reprogrammmed!

I've also heard 'UPSOT', never been sure what that is, whether it's the same as a SOT or the command to fade up the audio for a SOT.
NG
noggin Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
Oh yeah, I worked in an OOV newsroom for years and then went to a ULAY one for even more years so I got reprogrammmed!

I've also heard 'UPSOT', never been sure what that is, whether it's the same as a SOT or the command to fade up the audio for a SOT.


SOT is a separate clip, UPSOT is where the clip starts as OOV, but you have to stop talking at a certain time to let it turn into SOT (i.e. to allow for an UP Sound Off Tape). Lots of people who don't know better call SOTs UPSOTs...
JB
JasonB
noggin posted:
Or if you work at the BBC :
ULAY


Isn't that some sort of skin lotion?
LB
Luke B
JasonB posted:
noggin posted:
Or if you work at the BBC :
ULAY


Isn't that some sort of skin lotion?
Last edited by Luke B on 26 June 2018 9:42pm
MU
Multi
I’ve also known SOT to be known as a sequence on tape, rather than sound on tape.

But tomato, tomato.
AN
Andrew Founding member
I just assumed the poster who brought this up had been watching that clip of Alastair Stewart rehersing the Evening News
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LB
Luke B
Andrew posted:
I just assumed the poster who brought this up had been watching that clip of Alastair Stewart rehersing the Evening News


Well yes that's part of my knowledge but it's also due to the fact that I've always imagined SOT to be the section where the video tape is playing on high volume, and there is no Voice Over included. I was only answering Rob's question as to what the difference was.
NG
noggin Founding member
Multi posted:
I’ve also known SOT to be known as a sequence on tape, rather than sound on tape.

But tomato, tomato.


SOF (Sound on Film)
SOVT (Sound on VT)
SOT (Sound on Tape/TX)

All of them were/are used in the BBC.
LB
Luke B
Another weird sound problem at the start of today's show. The sting began about 4 seconds late, just after the ident had finished.



It's quite strange how this has occurred twice now.

And this was followed by an unusual camera mishap in the 8am TOTH

Last edited by Luke B on 27 June 2018 6:15pm - 4 times in total
UB
UBox
For those wondering the layout of the standing sets in TC3:


RE
Reece24
UBox posted:
For those wondering the layout of the standing sets in TC3:




Phillip and Holly also walked into the GMB set from This Morning's for their interview yesterday.

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