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Old 29-02-2016, 14:51
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Science fiction shows with BBC News 24 on TV in the background reporting on the alien invasion. It happens so much.
You rarely see this happen in horror type shows with the TV news reporting on vampires or werewolves running amok.
Try East Midlands Today when they do reports from the Nottingham suburbs. St Annes esp. Sky 960.
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Old 29-02-2016, 15:06
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The credits roling so fast you can't read them, or being minimised in the top of the screen whilst some bozo tells us what is coming up, in case we have the attention span of a gnat.
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Old 01-03-2016, 00:26
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Science fiction shows with BBC News 24 on TV in the background reporting on the alien invasion. It happens so much.
On a related note, doing that on a TV in the background, just so that stupid people don't think it's a real news report (see: War of the Worlds/Orson Welles for the radio equivalent )
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Old 01-03-2016, 20:55
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On a related note, doing that on a TV in the background, just so that stupid people don't think it's a real news report (see: War of the Worlds/Orson Welles for the radio equivalent )
I think it was the BBC show The Bubble where the BBC wouldn't let their brand be used in fake reports incase viewers thought they were real.
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Old 02-03-2016, 04:28
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In soaps a scene dramatically builds up to a climax, only for it to cut to a boring mundane scene at the critical moment.

Example: A typical scene in Eastenders (The show which is the most guilty of this) a woman enters her house, talks to her partner, then finds out he isn't there, goes upstairs to investigate, opens the bedroom door and looks in, a quick shot of her partner in bed with somebody else. Then at this critical point....CUT!!! It goes straight to a scene in the pub where a couple of people are talking about something really mundane and boring.

Then after that scene in the pub has played out, it returns straight back to the previous scene with the woman and her partner after they have been caught red-handed. The other person has left, some conversation has happened which we didn't see on screen, and the woman is in the kitchen saying to her partner "How could you do this to me?".
The critical point where she entered the bedroom and we wanted to see what happened next at that immediate moment just wasn't shown.

Why do soaps do this so frequently at the prime critical moments where they could achieve the maximum drama?
They just cut away at the precise moment we want to see and the momentum has been lost.
It's like anti-drama.
I have noticed this as well. I think the theory is that the drama comes from the difference between what two characters know. As soon as the other character finds out (by discovering the secret, or whatever) there isn't any drama in it any more.
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Old 02-03-2016, 07:03
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Trailers for the same program that go on for weeks - e.g E4's "The Aliens". I am sick of this program already and it doesn't start until next Tuesday!

A little flag that pops up about a minute before a program ends that tells you what's on next.

'Here's what's coming up' at the start of a program.

Grrrrr!
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Old 02-03-2016, 10:35
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Alrightmate said: "Why do soaps do this so frequently at the prime critical moments where they could achieve the maximum drama?
They just cut away at the precise moment we want to see and the momentum has been lost. It's like anti-drama."


bib

... or even anti-climax

I do agree, that's the bit we want to see!!
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Old 02-03-2016, 12:30
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Why do soaps do this so frequently at the prime critical moments where they could achieve the maximum drama?
They just cut away at the precise moment we want to see and the momentum has been lost.
It's like anti-drama.
On a commercial channel, they'll do this to span it over the ad break.

But mainly it's done to keep you watching. They will interleave the conclusion of the story that you've been hooked on for the last 6 months with the starting off of the story line that they hope to keep you hook in with for the next six months and the mid point of a story where you're already 3 months in.

That way there is never an ending.
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Old 05-03-2016, 22:09
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In a scene where there's a car travelling along and the baddies time it perfectly to have a truck ram into the side of it at a junction.
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Old 06-03-2016, 01:36
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This was some time ago, bit I don't doubt they still do it.

A flash looking car is careening along a (deserted) mountain road. Some graphics and the voice over are talking about xx% of Ford whatevers.

Right at the bottom of the screen in very small text, just at the end: "* Excludes model shown".



Also, why is it that, in car adverts, men changing gear always grab the gear lever as if they are giving it a hand job, as no one does, ever?

Do the producers think people are impressed by men who need to grab the gearstick in their fist and shove it, rather than gently move it from the top with the flat of their hand, as even a very small woman can manage?
This "not model shown" reminds me of a similar annoyance when you see some really impressive graphics for selling a video game then at the bottom it says "not actual game footage". They don't show a trailer for a film then say "not actual film" do they? How they get away with promoting a video game with footage not in the game astounds me.
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Old 06-03-2016, 09:26
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The credits roling so fast you can't read them, or being minimised in the top of the screen whilst some bozo tells us what is coming up, in case we have the attention span of a gnat.
I've noticed that on many DVD sets of TV series, the credits are re-done in such a way that they are almost completely unreadable.

They zoom across the bottom of the screen so fast that you can't possibly read them all, and, if you freeze frame to try and read some particular name, you discover that every frame has been deliberately blurred and distorted so they cannot be easily interpreted.
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Old 06-03-2016, 16:48
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This "not model shown" reminds me of a similar annoyance when you see some really impressive graphics for selling a video game then at the bottom it says "not actual game footage". They don't show a trailer for a film then say "not actual film" do they? How they get away with promoting a video game with footage not in the game astounds me.
In the age we are now with often cinematic, real-life graphics quality in games, this is easier to get away with, but back in the days of graphics being all of about 5 pixels, it was even worse - you'd have the really dramatic, cinematically animated advert (featuring ''not actual game footage'' disclaimer) ...but then the game would just be the blockiest, most uninteresting looking piece of crap. I remember many a time I was disappointed by this as a kid
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Old 06-03-2016, 17:00
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C4 showing a sit-com with post watershed content before 9pm.

They do this with 2 Broke Girls and make cuts that ruin the flow of the show.
Or as with Comedy Central, show Friends uncut at 9am in the morning. My 4 year old thought the word "whore" was hilarious when I was flicking through the other week...
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Old 06-03-2016, 19:15
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Advert breaks in films.
Sometimes right in the middle of a scene !
ITV2 are particularly guilty of this.
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Old 06-03-2016, 19:31
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Advert breaks in films.
Sometimes right in the middle of a scene !
ITV2 are particularly guilty of this.
Or when you`re coming to a dramatic or tearfull moment near the end of a film and up pops a message in the corner of the screen saying something like "up next Celebrity Juice"
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Old 06-03-2016, 19:57
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This "not model shown" reminds me of a similar annoyance when you see some really impressive graphics for selling a video game then at the bottom it says "not actual game footage". They don't show a trailer for a film then say "not actual film" do they? How they get away with promoting a video game with footage not in the game astounds me.
It's actually quite common to have scenes in a trailer that do not make it into the final edit.
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Old 06-03-2016, 20:01
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The Sound on adverts is always pitched LOUDER than on programmes.

It can be a major irritant. The last thing I need at 10 pm is to be 'tango'ed' awake by some un-needed product before heading to bed 'over stimulated'...
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Old 07-03-2016, 07:57
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Blurring of faces reached new heights on BBC Breakfast this morning when they managed to blur the faces of the two people being interviewed live at Chester Zoo
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Old 07-03-2016, 08:52
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Ad breaks coming in too soon after the programme has started. I tried to watch the Gadget Show the other night and an ad break came in after just 7 MINUTES!
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Old 07-03-2016, 09:32
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The bbc as a whole annoy me now. Box ticking.
I watched a programme about the moon and the irritating women presenting it had the talking down to the viewer off to a fine art, along with an...... irritating......stop......start......delivery.........to all of the sentences.

Aaaarrggh. OFF it went!
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Old 07-03-2016, 12:03
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The bbc as a whole annoy me now. Box ticking.
I watched a programme about the moon and the irritating women presenting it had the talking down to the viewer off to a fine art, along with an...... irritating......stop......start......delivery.........to all of the sentences.

Aaaarrggh. OFF it went!
That doc has been repeated so many times now.

I can't fault that presenter for her enthusiasm and interest in the subject (her job after all), but she does talk like she's giving a lesson to primary school children. Very annoying.

At one point she says something like "one of the good things about my job is you get to stay up very very late" so perhaps she thought the programme was aimed at very young school children after all.
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Old 07-03-2016, 18:03
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In keeping with the talking down/patronising theme - all 'informative' shows and news reports that feature mind-blowingly obvious lines

'This ship ways 4 trillion billion infinity tons...that's very heavy'
'This bank is owing 4 billion pounds...now that's a lot of money'
'From this, cancer can develop. And that's very bad.'
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Old 07-03-2016, 20:27
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The bbc as a whole annoy me now. Box ticking.
I watched a programme about the moon and the irritating women presenting it had the talking down to the viewer off to a fine art, along with an...... irritating......stop......start......delivery.........to all of the sentences.

Aaaarrggh. OFF it went!
On a similar but broader note. Documentaries which are made for adults today produced exactly like how they would have been made for children about 20-25 years ago.

Also, It's probably not as relevant now, but documentaries on BBC 3 were like propaganda films for young children.
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Old 11-03-2016, 02:25
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One I hear a lot on US TV shows, the "previously on..." voiceover being spoken by varying members of the cast. Is it just a way of saving money by not hiring an additional voice actor?
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Old 28-04-2016, 22:37
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News reporters doing their report to camera whist a press conference or interview is going on behind them. It's just rude, especially when they make no effort to at least be discreet.

Why can't they either go somewhere else to do their report or wait until there is a break in proceedings.


Boris Johnson would probably agree with me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsxaT7WSQaA
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