03-04-2023, 04:20 PM
(03-04-2023, 04:11 PM)Transmission Wrote: This breaking news situation shows that the lower thirds really are missing that second line of information, I feel. With a single line they're unable to sum up the overall headline and the latest detail in a way they could before. I'm not sure why they've made this change across the channel, unless perhaps as part of the cost-cutting they no longer have a dedicated text producer and the straps are written by someone with other duties.I think the main reason was readability (especially if you’re watching on phone/tablet). Two lines of text makes everything very small - they wanted lines to stand out, hence the one.
Apologies if it has already been mentioned, but this UK opt is also being carried by iPlayer as a seperate stream, not unlike the sport red button iPlayer streams. Presumably this is what they see as eventually being the future of this sort of thing.