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(January 2015)

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DK
DanielK
Whataday posted:
I think the opening was a bit messy, and not sure it needed the voiceover or stock image of the Paris skyline incorporated within the titles. And the theme sounds too triumphant when reporting this sort of news. Sometimes less is more.


Load of rubbish, seems perfectly appropriate to have the stock image as that is where a large part of the show is coming from, and the same for the voiceover. Would be worse if the London shots and VO play, then fade to Susanna in a totally different country.

The theme is newsy, perfectly appropriate, both for the occasion and the programme. If you applied that argument to News at Ten or BBC News, it would be ridiculous.
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NG
noggin Founding member
Just wish they'd use the definite article on the date in the voice over. Without it it just sounds horribly American.

It's "Monday, THE 16th of November" not "Monday, 16th of November".
PE
permotio
God it annoys me SO much. They're so capable of producing a journalistically-sound morning programme - today proves it.

Yet they just can't be bothered most of the time and focus on entertainment and rubbish stories.
DK
DanielK
noggin posted:
Just wish they'd use the definite article on the date in the voice over. Without it it just sounds horribly American.

It's "Monday, THE 16th of November" not "Monday, 16th of November".


I've always preferred 'Monday, November 16th'. Don't know why, partly for the reason above though.
BB
BBI45
Ben Shatliff posted:
I wonder if this is just for today as the original music is more serious or if from next week it will return again.

I hope so too
BO
boris78
watchingtv posted:
A very good opening. The only thing that bugs me is the location strap text is in capitals.


If that's all they got wrong, they played a blinder!
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NG
noggin Founding member
DanielK posted:
noggin posted:
Just wish they'd use the definite article on the date in the voice over. Without it it just sounds horribly American.

It's "Monday, THE 16th of November" not "Monday, 16th of November".


I've always preferred 'Monday, November 16th'. Don't know why, partly for the reason above though.


That should be "Monday, November THE 16th" though. Dropping the definite article there also sounds American, though not as bad as the other option.

British English dates conventionally take an article whether they have the number before or after the month
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NI
Nicky
DanielK posted:
Whataday posted:
I think the opening was a bit messy, and not sure it needed the voiceover or stock image of the Paris skyline incorporated within the titles. And the theme sounds too triumphant when reporting this sort of news. Sometimes less is more.


Load of rubbish, seems perfectly appropriate to have the stock image as that is where a large part of the show is coming from, and the same for the voiceover. Would be worse if the London shots and VO play, then fade to Susanna in a totally different country.

The theme is newsy, perfectly appropriate, both for the occasion and the programme. If you applied that argument to News at Ten or BBC News, it would be ridiculous.


Now you're talking a load of rubbish - neither News at Ten nor BBC News have "triumphant" themes. There is a HUGE difference between "newsy" and "triumphant".

I don't think the stock image looked nice at all. A simple camera pan of the location would have sufficed - works well for ITV News when presenting on location.
CR
Critique
ITV Breakfast continues to confuse me as today they once again produced a very decent programme in the wake of a major news story. They still had entertainment segments at 6:50 and 7:50, but that was really the only time they moved away from the top story, barring the weather and the summaries of the rest of the day's news. I think there was one competition advert at 7:50 also.

Even the Lorraine promo at 8:15 sounded serious, with around half her programme also spent of the Paris attacks. Coverage there included an OB from a GMB reporter and a fairly long interview with Jeremy Corbyn - they even had a guest in the studio that is more commonly found in the Sunday Politics studio than on Lorraine! The second half of the programme was a lot closer to what it's normally like, which does make me wonder if it would have been better to extend GMB today and shorten Lorraine, which in the GMTV days they did, but now do no longer?

Time and time again they've demonstrated that they can produce a decent programme, if only they could be consistent.
BR
Brekkie
Really can't believe people watch coverage of such tragic events and are more concerned with the font, the theme tune and how the date is pronounced.
Last edited by Brekkie on 16 November 2015 8:08pm
NI
Nicky
Brekkie posted:
Really can't believe people watch coverage of such tragic events and are more concerned with the font, the theme tune and how the date is pronunced.


This is a presentation forum. Confused
NG
noggin Founding member
Brekkie posted:
Really can't believe people watch coverage of such tragic events and are more concerned with the font, the theme tune and how the date is pronunced.


It's not specific to the Paris Attacks coverage, it's their house style, and I don't like it. This is a presentation forum... Watching the YouTube clip earlier in this thread reminded me that it's annoying.

Not slagging GMB's Paris Attacks coverage off at all. Susanna is an experienced news presenter, and the coverage was entirely competent from what I saw.

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