This isn't really on topic but the only thread that was vaguely suitable. Do TV channels speed up the credits of films? Just watching the end of Love Actually on ITV2 and noticed the footage that appears in between sections of the credits was definitely sped up, with the people in the clips whizzing around! The music over the credits was the standard speed though, so is this a thing that happens? I can't say I've noticed this on the credits of any film I've watched before - some of the films I can think of (like the Harry Potter film with credits in the style of the Marauders Map) would look rubbish sped up, so are only some credits allowed to be sped up, if any?
Not only do they speed them up, they shorten them considerably - especially on BBC, where they usually playout the cast list, the main crew and the copyright notice.
I have seen full credits play out on Channel 4 before now...
This isn't really on topic but the only thread that was vaguely suitable. Do TV channels speed up the credits of films? Just watching the end of Love Actually on ITV2 and noticed the footage that appears in between sections of the credits was definitely sped up, with the people in the clips whizzing around! The music over the credits was the standard speed though, so is this a thing that happens? I can't say I've noticed this on the credits of any film I've watched before - some of the films I can think of (like the Harry Potter film with credits in the style of the Marauders Map) would look rubbish sped up, so are only some credits allowed to be sped up, if any?
Been the case for years on all the channels. It's probably only the Sky Cinema channels, Film4 (mostly) and occasionally the True channels (and possibly TCM also on occasion) that retain credit speeds and lengths, with odd exceptions in all cases bar Sky.
Anyway modern films have credits that run for minutes on end, which in the case of the commercial channels is possibly seen as pouring money down the proverbial drain in the knowledge that everybody tends to go channel surfing when the credits of anything, not just films come on, so chop them down to key cast, music, copyright, end-cap and be done in two minutes, air some ads and start the next programme.
Not only do they speed them up, they shorten them considerably - especially on BBC, where they usually playout the cast list, the main crew and the copyright notice.
I have seen full credits play out on Channel 4 before now...
I have seen several minutes of credits on ITV (not sure if it's in full) but rarely on BBC). In this particular case they must have been done in a hurry (no pun intended) and the speeding up of the live action segments would have been unintentional.
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The Marauder's Map credits at the end of HP: PoA are always sped up on ITV. It almost makes you feel seasick the way things sway side to side so rapidly!
It's been standard practice for many years to double the frame rate of film credits so that they play back at 50i instead of 25p, keeping the music at normal speed and fading it out when the credits finish.
Usually they only do this on credits that scroll from bottom to top with no extra content. The animated segments at the start of the credits, if the film has one, are usually kept at normal speed, although as mentioned a few have been sped up (i.e. Harry Potter).
Credits with extra footage are also usually kept at normal speed, or edited so that the footage is normal speed but the credits are sped up, although as mentioned ITV have for some reason been playing out the footage in Love Actually's credits at double speed for years now.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe ITV also always modify films so that they fill the screen, usually by cropping, but in the case of Skyfall a few years back using the IMAX version which is unmatted and so has a lot of extra space on the top and bottom of the screen. (Compare it against your DVD/BD when ITV show it next)
The Marauder's Map credits at the end of HP: PoA are always sped up on ITV. It almost makes you feel seasick the way things sway side to side so rapidly!
I meant to check Prisoner of Azkaban when it was on yesterday but went out part way through, I can imagine it must look very odd sped up!
How strange I've never noticed any of this before! Thinking back, I've probably watched more films on TV via Sky Movies than I have via any of the normal TV channels, which goes some way to explaining it if they don't speed theirs up. Watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets the other day was also confusing as the credits seemed fast, but the post-credits scene was still there, and at the correct speed, so I assumed the credits were at normal pace too.
Interesting that you mention films being full-screen VMPhil, as I had also noticed that all the films on TV on BBC One, ITV etc were full-screen rather than having black bars - I'd assumed there were widescreen edits of these films (much in the same way Friends has been released HD widescreen despite originally being SD 4:3). I wouldn't have thought that they'd crop them as the framing might look off/you might miss important details that are outside the crop zone (albeit this second one is slightly unlikely!).
I remember watching The Rugrats Movie on Channel 4 last year and the credits were sped up, only playing 'Take Me There' so it omits 'I Throw My Toys Around' but the end credit sequence and Klasky Csupo logo are left intact.
Be grateful that you get credits at all. RTE in Ireland have gotten into the habit of showing no credits whatever on most films that it shows. After the last scene the words, THE END pop up, then the Sponsor sting for the movie and adverts. It actually ruins many a film, the credits ease you out of a film that you've been watching for the previous two hours. Even 30 seconds of Credits does the trick. The exception to the rule is any Irish or UK film when the Credits are usually shown. However, Richard Curtis Movies don't count, and I haven't watched any Irish or UK movie on RTE this Christmas so that might have changed.