1. (Framed pictures of Mel & Sue, and the guests - not sure if this is supposed to be something or not)
2. Rock & roll
3. Cat & dog, bit obvious
4. Punch & Judy - bit lazy on the second half
5. Fish & chips
6. (A girl holding a trophy and a boy holding an ice cream cone)
7. Bump & grind
8. Bow & arrow
And is there a prize? I feel there should be a prize.
No, generally whenever a programme uses fake breakdown slides; flickery pictures; colour bars; extended periods of full-field black, blue, green or magenta; or (in the olden days) static, control rooms get no advance notice and the engineers go into a panic when they spot them out the corner of their eye on the monitor stack.
At the BBC you would normally mention anything you know about (shash effects, colour bars, tone, fake rewinding effects, fades or cuts to black etc.) when lining up with Presentation for a live show, and make sure they are detailed in your delivery paperwork for a recorded show.
No, generally whenever a programme uses fake breakdown slides; flickery pictures; colour bars; extended periods of full-field black, blue, green or magenta; or (in the olden days) static, control rooms get no advance notice and the engineers go into a panic when they spot them out the corner of their eye on the monitor stack.
At the BBC you would normally mention anything you know about (shash effects, colour bars, tone, fake rewinding effects, fades or cuts to black etc.) when lining up with Presentation for a live show, and make sure they are detailed in your delivery paperwork for a recorded show.
When I was doing Big Brother in Channel 5 TX, they warned us a few times about things like this, including a straightforward colour bars joke. It probably saved years on my life. (The Big Brother team were generally *very* good - we'd also get warnings about which parts had competitions before the break etc, so we didn't think a show part was ending too early.)
Mister Maker on CBeebies does an analogue tape-rewind effect every single show. Even though the programme is playing off server, it still gives me a minor heart attack every bloody time.
A couple of my favourite examples of the use of network slides as part of a joke:
When Alan Partridge shoots a guest on his "live" chat show (BBC2 slide appears at 2:29)
Brass Eye's fake Channel 4 news flash before going into the commercial break, announcing Clive Anderson's death (slide appears at 2:38 )
Lovely attention to detail, with the the clunk of the mic and the slide being faded up twice, to give the pres that real "live" feel.
That clip is from the DVD version which was updated with a newer Channel 4 News slide, whereas the original transmission featured the branding from the orange era of Channel 4 News that was in use at the time.
It's one of those references that has become detached from it's origins. It's the same as the floppy disc icon on most software applications.... there soon will be (maybe already are) adults who don't know what it represents.
What it scary is that I've heard of 16 year olds at FE colleges who are confused when they're given a DV tape to use..... they've never even opened an audio cassette let alone a video tape
It's one of those references that has become detached from it's origins. It's the same as the floppy disc icon on most software applications.... there soon will be (maybe already are) adults who don't know what it represents.
What it scary is that I've heard of 16 year olds at FE colleges who are confused when they're given a DV tape to use..... they've never even opened an audio cassette let alone a video tape
I can understand 16-year-olds getting confused over a DV tape - I suppose it shows the pace of change (I find it funny that people just three or four years younger than me genuinely don't know how many inches are in a foot, at least not without having to really think about it).
At the BBC you would normally mention anything you know about (shash effects, colour bars, tone, fake rewinding effects, fades or cuts to black etc.) when lining up with Presentation for a live show, and make sure they are detailed in your delivery paperwork for a recorded show.
But nobody ever tells CCA or coding & mux!
There was one occasion when someone in SCAR called up and asked if we had anything which could generate some analogue shash - we had an old SVHS VCR which could, and a PAL to SDI converter, so sent it down a tieline as requested. Half the people in the room still jumped when it showed up a couple of hours later on a Newsround VT...
