BS: Broadcasting standards RANT

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 01:40 PM

One of the first things taught in photography seminars is never pan rapidly across the scene. It makes the viewer close his eyes until the pan is over. The mistake is common in news programs.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 12:59 PM

Oooooh This is fun!
Coming up shortly........!
And what is the BBC One show all about? Hard hitting items about desperate one parent families and the really bad times they are enduring, segued into a jolly piece about skateboarding dogs?
And they always have a special guest who hardly gets a word in, and just sits there looking puzzled! Grrrr!

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 12:41 PM

The Lloyds TSB ads worry me - all those little wooden people with long noses - what is that saying, do you think?

Another thing that has been annoying me lately is background noise. For example, if you listen to the World Service there is a thumping, pounding headache of a noise masking the news headlines. The only good part is the utter relief when it stops.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 12:10 PM

And they say these daft things right over the top of the lovely closing music that you're enjoying, and squeeze the credits into a tiny little box, so you can't see who played what. And am I just imagining it, or are there now adverts every seven minutes or so? I spend more time pressing the 'mute' button than anything else. It's like chalk on a blackboard to me, all these ghastly ads. I agree that "We buy any blasted car..." is enough to make you want to throttle them. And am I alone in squirming at the Santander ads? What is all that sinister giant red Lego about? (I'm in the mood for a good rant, sorry!)

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 12:02 PM

My pet rant is against those programmes (normally consumer/pet style shows) That waste so much of the time telling us "what is coming up in a minutes time. or re-capping what we have already seen, and will be updating the story shortly....in a minutes time!" My attention span is slightly longer than a goldfish thank you...
(In a minutes time I'll come back and re-cap what I've just written If thats OK with you!)
Aaaaaargh!

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 09:48 AM

""My pet peeve is TV commercials that come on 5 times louder than the program,""

Same peeve, and identical response.

If "We buy Any Car" were the worlds last dealer I'd run the car off Beachy Head rather than deal with them.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 09:42 AM

""I still think Fox News is a clever parody.""

Fox News clever?

Beep beep beep.....Oxymoron alert!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 09:25 AM

And concentrating on musicians faces instead of how they're using their instrument. I don't care what they look like - I want to see what they're doing with their hands.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Neil D
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 12:08 PM

Just 5 minutes ago I heard a news achor mention the Iranian Revolution in 1989 causing me to yell "1979 you moron" at my TV.
My pet peeve is TV commercials that come on 5 times louder than the program, a real issue when I'm watching at night after my wife is already in bed in the next room. And it is not a technical glitch it is done intentionally to counteract people makin a quick trip to the kitchen or bathroom during commercial breaks. I now boycott any product that employs this practice.
"It's the ones who film dancers without showing their feet who annoy me."
Fred Astaire had it written into his contract that he could only be filmed with a full body shot during dance scenes.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 06:53 AM

Oh topsie you did make me laugh! I have to say, once or twice I could have been in favour of this for some of my more recalcitrant pupils!

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 05:35 AM

I remember a BBC announcer years ago introducing a discussion on the merits of 'capital punishment' in schools.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 02:48 AM

I don't really do all this pretty picture bolleaux, but I am very fed up with law students who do not appreciate that words are a lawyers weapons and need to be correctly selected, honed and wielded.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 03:39 PM

Tonight on BBC 4 they had a lovely performance of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto, the 'Emperor', (soloist Paul Lewis). The ignorant continuity lady announced "And now Beethoven's fifth!" If she doesn't know the difference between a piano concerto and a symphony, why oh why is she on BBC 4?

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 01:11 PM

I work in a Public Affairs office with young folks who have degrees in mass communications. They can't write for toffee -- no notion of grammar, syntax, even spelling. But they have a great grasp of communications theory and are dab hands at "messaging"!

Good thing they have me to write their blessed backgrounders, caption their photos, and edit their news releases.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Smedley
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 01:11 PM

I still think Fox News is a clever parody.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Greg F.
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 12:58 PM

Hey, could be a lot worse. Could be Fox "News"[sic]

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Smedley
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 12:55 PM

As a point of information, many Media Studies courses don't teach practical/technical skills (although some do); they focus more on the history, social impact and analysis of the mass media. Just like most English degrees analyse literature, but don't teach 'creative writing'.

None of which diminishes the fact that these TV shows sound rancid!!

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 12:49 PM

It's the ones who film dancers without showing their feet who annoy me.

Subject: RE: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 12:28 PM

Can I have a rant please? You know Gardeners' World? Well, the cameraman is obsessed with close-ups. When they show you a garden, he goes zooming into a flower until it's enlarged almost like an electron microscope slide. You see every hair, every dot on the petals. But the overall picture of the garden? Never! He's the same one that covers Chelsea Flower Show I reckon. You just don't ever get a wide ranging view of anything, just these massive close-ups of one daft rose. Did someone give him a gigantic zoom lens for Christmas one year or what?

Subject: BS: Broadcasting standards RANT
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 09:35 AM

Where else can I rant but Mudcat.
I just fell across a prog on ITV called "May the Best House Win". I have no idea what it's about but I won't be able to watch it for long. The camera work and editing is atrocious, whip pans, clumsy reframing, subject looking out of frame, cutting to and from pans and zooms. Endless classic errors of picture composition. It is common in cookery programmes to suffer random zooms and soft focus shots and, of course, looking at anything rather that what is being demonstrated.I would have thought that with all the "Media Studies" graduates these days there might be a move to higher standards not a concerted effort to incorporate all the bad points of the art of cinematography.
I just popped back to see if my first impressions were fair and realised the whole programme is based on knocking someone elses outmoded taste. Hmm, perhaps they just don't like making television programmes properly either.
There I feel better now!!