09-06-2024, 09:31 PM
Special European elections programme, 'Europe Votes 2024', on BBC News this evening.
Another miserable BBC News opening title sequence; just some circular shapes and stars moving so. painfully. slowly.
...before the programme title finally appeared.
All accompanied, of course, by the same used-to-death opening title music used over and over and over again across so many other BBC bulletins every day.
Opening view of the set -- it doesn't look very 'BBC'; but I am getting strong European news channel vibes.
One other thing -- I have no idea what purpose this lower-third was supposed to serve:
'Europe Votes 2024' should surely be in a programme slug at the upper-right of the L3. And BBC News already has a perfectly adequate way of signalling that a programme is being viewed as-it-happens and on-location: the LIVE and location bugs.
So instead of getting a steady stream of useful details and updates about the elections scrolling through on the L3s, we repeatedly got 'Europe Votes 2024 LIVE from Brussels' on screen for several minutes at a time, including when we weren't actually live from Brussels... as the LIVE/location bugs helpfully pointed out:
*sigh*
Another miserable BBC News opening title sequence; just some circular shapes and stars moving so. painfully. slowly.
...before the programme title finally appeared.
All accompanied, of course, by the same used-to-death opening title music used over and over and over again across so many other BBC bulletins every day.
Opening view of the set -- it doesn't look very 'BBC'; but I am getting strong European news channel vibes.
One other thing -- I have no idea what purpose this lower-third was supposed to serve:
'Europe Votes 2024' should surely be in a programme slug at the upper-right of the L3. And BBC News already has a perfectly adequate way of signalling that a programme is being viewed as-it-happens and on-location: the LIVE and location bugs.
So instead of getting a steady stream of useful details and updates about the elections scrolling through on the L3s, we repeatedly got 'Europe Votes 2024 LIVE from Brussels' on screen for several minutes at a time, including when we weren't actually live from Brussels... as the LIVE/location bugs helpfully pointed out:
*sigh*