BBC News Channel General Discussion

They are doing better camera shots than they had been doing. The intros to the bulletins are improving.

I notice that pretty much all the regions have coloured titles, and that most of them are trying moving camera shots or standing up. Midlands Today have realised that by standing up, moving the camera far away and zooming in, there quite small screens appear quite large, whilst even Look East (West) have decided to stand up now and then - exciting times...

Still haven't fixed the long titles it just looks stupid and out of sync.

Ramzan Karmali says on twitter that no Your Money will air this weekend, Ramzan was also standing in for Declan this weekend.

To deal with the issue of the long titles, I'd roll the normal titles, replace the newsroom pan with a shot of the three plasma's with pictures from location, then replace the wide studio shot with a close up of the subject pulling back to the reporter.

As they seem to be experimenting with TOTH camera pans, how about trying a locked off camera shot inside the gallery every so often out of the globe title sequence (instead of the newsroom pan - ITV News channel used this sort of shot out of breaks occasionally, and I'm sure News 24 did back in 1997). The other suggestion would be a zoom out from centre of the newsroom instead of the standard zoom in? I don't know if either of this would be possible or look any good mind you?

Why would faffing around in the manner you describe be better than the current solution, which I doubt many of the general public see a problem with?

the whole thing is a mess and because of it they cant cue the bbc news logo and theres a massive gap at the end, they shoukld just get rid of it, play the usual titles, do a long shot of the scene, then cue the presenter in.

I don't understand what you've posted there - however, if these are the long titles I have seen a few times before, they are fine.

Breakfast’s Jenny Hill in Glasgow this morning with Tim Willcox in the studio.
Also the titles have now been fixed and the in-sync ones are being played.

Yes the long titles which I think is a joke.

So the yesterday titles, why were they played instead? Why would the have an out-of-sync set of titles? It is worth noting that the long titles used today (and have been used a lot recently) are fine; there's nothing wrong with them.