Media mistakes

[Black Hole]

A slide up message at the end of "Strike"

Not just there, lots of programmes now have this. Voice-overs during end credits are particularly annoying.

I'm convinced these are all about preventing the public making a clean recording.

 

[gomezz]

You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off and the radio spectrum handed over to the mobile phone companies.

 

[Black Hole]

You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off and the radio spectrum handed over to the mobile phone companies.

...but not universally available.

(I admit not even broadcast TV is universally available, but...)

 

[EEPhil]

You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off and the radio spectrum handed over to the mobile phone companies.

I'm sure this is part of the BBCs rational. Unfortunately, you can't always get a clean copy. "Cardiac Arrest" when available just after a recent(ish) showing on BBC4 - the iPlayer had the BBC4 version telling you that all episodes were available on the iPlayer plus the large BBC FOUR logo rather than the smaller BBC logo. Double ! The same was true for some episodes of "Montalbano", although these have been replaced. For the moment BBC programmes can be obtained with get_iplayer or ytd. Did I see that some ITV programmes are going on YouTube? Are these going to be blocked somehow? Oh well, back to the thin gruel that is the STV player. Now if only I could get hold of some of the "Walter Presents" programmes off C4...

Voice-overs during end credits are particularly annoying.

Yes, why employ composers to write end music if you're going to trample all over it?
Rewind TVs large "next" means I can't read the cast list. At least they don't squash and talk over them.

 

[everthewatcher]

Just seen a clip from the Call The Midwife xmas special, set in the (judging by the looks) early '60s. A woman turns the TV on and the picture & sound appear immediately...

When the Martin Shaw series 'Inspector George Gently' from 2017 was being publicised one of the articles mentioned how they had gone to great lengths to get all the props correct, giving the lighter in Shaw's pocket as an example even though it was never shown. The first episodes were set in the 1964 but in exterior scenes all the houses had modern Band VI/V UHF aerials with not a single Band I or Band III one to be seen.

 

[EEPhil]

The first episodes were set in the 1964 but in exterior scenes all the houses had modern Band VI/V UHF aerials with not a single Band I or Band III one to be seen.

Unless the houses were on the back lot of a film studio, not something they seem to do much of these days, I imagine it would be difficult to swap everyone's aerial. Probable would have been quite expensive to doctor the film/video in post-production. Should have made the effort though.

 

[everthewatcher]

I imagine it would be difficult to swap everyone's aerial. Probable would have been quite expensive to doctor the film/video in post-production. Should have made the effort though.

They blot out yellow lines and other road markings, and obscure modern street furniture, but probably they don't 'see' things like TV aerials.

Spotting anachronisms like this has been a pet thing of mine for years. There was a recent TV series that that spanned the 70s to the current day and it looked like the set dresser had picked up on brown and orange being key colours in the late 70s and went overboard with them. Plus a very obvious anachronism in not only having a microwave in the kitchen but one from the 2000s.
[Minor edits to make slightly more sense.]

 

[EEPhil]

Spotting anachronisms like this has been a pet thing of mine for years

I often miss these. But I do spot the big mistake in older programmes/films where stunt driving rehearsal leaves tyre marks on the road before the car screeches to a halt.

 

[Black Hole]

Probable would have been quite expensive to doctor the film/video in post-production.

I think that sort of thing should be quite easy these days, with the tools available in the professional video editing domain.

 

[EEPhil]

I think that sort of thing should be quite easy these days, with the tools available in the professional video editing domain.

I'd hope so.

 

[gomezz]

I guess the same kind of technology used to inject "painted ads" onto sports fields that aren't physically there.