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just what are "OBVT"
MS
Outside Broadcast Video Tape. Meaning they didn't shoot it on film, but instead on videotape, which was only used in the studio scenes at the time, due to the size of the equipment needed to shoot VT.
Yes I too noticed video tape outside footage in a 1974 episode of Doctor Who. It was the only story i saw (before the late 80s ones of course) that did this. Wonder why it was so different.
623058 posted:
just what are "OBVT"
Outside Broadcast Video Tape. Meaning they didn't shoot it on film, but instead on videotape, which was only used in the studio scenes at the time, due to the size of the equipment needed to shoot VT.
Yes I too noticed video tape outside footage in a 1974 episode of Doctor Who. It was the only story i saw (before the late 80s ones of course) that did this. Wonder why it was so different.
DA
That was The Sontaran Experiment - a two-parter shot entirely on location. I assume there was some kind of economy of scale that kicked in and made it easier to do it on video.
David
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Yes I too noticed video tape outside footage in a 1974 episode of Doctor Who. It was the only story i saw (before the late 80s ones of course) that did this. Wonder why it was so different.
That was The Sontaran Experiment - a two-parter shot entirely on location. I assume there was some kind of economy of scale that kicked in and made it easier to do it on video.
David
MS
That was The Sontaran Experiment - a two-parter shot entirely on location. I assume there was some kind of economy of scale that kicked in and made it easier to do it on video.
David
Not the one i was thinking of. It was ROBOT i think, i remember it now because i remember the Robot becoming massive effect being quite good at the time. Looks like it wasn't the only story that did that then!
Funny about economy, it seems after the cost-cutting Jon Pertwee era, they went all out for the early Tom Baker stories.
davidhorman posted:
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Yes I too noticed video tape outside footage in a 1974 episode of Doctor Who. It was the only story i saw (before the late 80s ones of course) that did this. Wonder why it was so different.
That was The Sontaran Experiment - a two-parter shot entirely on location. I assume there was some kind of economy of scale that kicked in and made it easier to do it on video.
David
Not the one i was thinking of. It was ROBOT i think, i remember it now because i remember the Robot becoming massive effect being quite good at the time. Looks like it wasn't the only story that did that then!
Funny about economy, it seems after the cost-cutting Jon Pertwee era, they went all out for the early Tom Baker stories.
IS
You mean that they used VT. OB refers to a live broadcast not pre-recorded programmes
RJG posted:
I'm sure Emmerdale, right from the start, and, indeed, The Flaxton Boys in the early 70s, both made by Yorkshire TV used OB rather than film for their exteriors
You mean that they used VT. OB refers to a live broadcast not pre-recorded programmes
MS
You mean that they used VT. OB refers to a live broadcast not pre-recorded programmes
Like the term film though it seems to mean anything filmed outside a studio now. Top Gear for example use the word Outside Broadcast a lot.
Inspector Sands posted:
RJG posted:
I'm sure Emmerdale, right from the start, and, indeed, The Flaxton Boys in the early 70s, both made by Yorkshire TV used OB rather than film for their exteriors
You mean that they used VT. OB refers to a live broadcast not pre-recorded programmes
Like the term film though it seems to mean anything filmed outside a studio now. Top Gear for example use the word Outside Broadcast a lot.
IS
Like the term film though it seems to mean anything filmed outside a studio now. Top Gear for example use the word Outside Broadcast a lot.
Yes, 'film' is used as the verb for recording something whether it be on VT or film. But 'OB' is exclusively used for live.
I've never heard Top Gear refer to 'OB'. Their facilities company is 021 (AKA Carlton 021) who specialise in OBs.... but Top Gear is not an OB
Mr-Stabby posted:
Like the term film though it seems to mean anything filmed outside a studio now. Top Gear for example use the word Outside Broadcast a lot.
Yes, 'film' is used as the verb for recording something whether it be on VT or film. But 'OB' is exclusively used for live.
I've never heard Top Gear refer to 'OB'. Their facilities company is 021 (AKA Carlton 021) who specialise in OBs.... but Top Gear is not an OB
LL
I know this is slightly off topic but is using film instead of videotape the reason why older outside filming always looks grainy - a bit like in Open All Hours when they film outside the shop?
NW
I remember one of the most obvious ones was Coronation Street sometime in the mid 1980's, all the interior was shot on Video and and the exterior shot on Film, it looked rather naff. It would have looked better if they used one or the other, but they didn't, but by about 1988 or so all of it was being shot on Video and it looked better.
SC
Yes, I remember how noticeable the difference in picture quality was during the outside shots!
nwtv2003 posted:
I remember one of the most obvious ones was Coronation Street sometime in the mid 1980's, all the interior was shot on Video and and the exterior shot on Film, it looked rather naff. It would have looked better if they used one or the other, but they didn't, but by about 1988 or so all of it was being shot on Video and it looked better.
Yes, I remember how noticeable the difference in picture quality was during the outside shots!