There are not enough Americans commenting here. How can anyone find this not enjoyable?! I absolutely laughed my ass off for every single one of these!
I was interviewed on BBC News in a rather depressing context. At the time I was working as a broadcast technician at the Norwegian equivalent of the BBC. I protested when they wanted to do a Skype conversation, saying I was literally able to patch through an uncompressed HD feed to the BBC from the studio floor where I was sitting. But they said it would be easier to do it on Skype. So there I sat live on the Beeb, with a MacBook's internal camera, literally sitting atop the box lens of a Sony HD camera... I'd never felt so dirty in my life...
Tore - 8 years later - I feel for you buddy. But looking at this, they barely have control over their own cameras. Despite the difference in quality, a Skype call was probably their safest option. Sucks when you are held back from doing your best by other people's fear or ineptitude.
12:37 - The opening shot of the newsroom we always see, at the top of the BBC's various main bulletins, must surely be a mirrored image. If you look carefully into the studio area, you can just about see that guy running anti-clockwise around the set, yet clockwise when it cuts to the studio camera.
Nice to see the move from Television Centre has been such a success. It saddens me greatly that the BBC has disposed of this iconic building. TVC will always be the home of BBC Television.
I'm ins Scotland and growing up TVC was an icon, top of the pops, doctor who... In 2017 I was in London visiting family and my nephews were taking me to Westfield. That's when I saw the iconic building real life rather than on TV. It still had the BBC logo on it even though the BBC had moved out. I was star struck. My nephews were "yeah it's the bbc". They were unimpressed.
One day a BBC presenter will actually get flustered on air when something goes wrong. I do remember the fuss when they installed those automatic cameras. The British public were tutting quite loudly.
Standing behind a camera all day is just one of the drudges that we have been relieved of by wonderful modern technology. There's no going back after we have been liberated form the soul-destroying mundanity of repetitive and tedious of tasks forced upon unfortunates, often for the entirety of their working lives.
Nemo Theres nothing "wonderful" about having your job stolen or having a robot wipe your arse for you. Belive it or not there most likey is BBC cameramen/women who enjoyed their job. I've been in a BBC studio before, theres an atmosphere to it, certainly a job I would enjoy. When your job gets taken, trust me I will be there laughing saying its "wonderful" just like you did. The future should be about about man and machine working in harmony. I wish some people would see that
***** I know about the BBC too. When I was training to make TV progs, I did my placement in BBC TV and it was tremendously boring; mostly standing around and fiddling about with things. Mind-numbingly dull - especially standing behind a camera. And, as most TV is drivel, I decided that there was no way I would get out of bed to do it. Harmony with robots is irrelevant as bots have no feeling and they can't get bored shitless pointing their lenses at Jeremy Kyle whilst wishing they could see the sky and have real light and fresh air. There is spurious sexiness in TV work. It's as dull as ditchwater.
+Nemo well seeing as you found it dull why were you there? If you dislike TV then it's your fault. Plenty of people love their jobs and work is a human requirement to earn money to live. Are you all there? Only humans are capable of these types of jobs, only the studio being used is suited for this type of operation because it has been specially adapted. But as you can see it isn't very reliable, not to mention, tremendously poor in output quality and I find it very rude. Imagine if they were breaking serious news? The Queen had died or a terrorist attack... it's unreal. Just stinks.
Jack A DUH! You don't know if you will find something dull until you try it. And you are wrong. Robots can clearly be used to move cameras around and you finding the use of them to be "rude" is weird. Perhaps your judgement has been impaired by festive alcohol.
12m03 is so funny with the hyperactive hamster on the screen, but the best is 07m38 when he sees the camera in peripheral vision but tries not to look at it until he just has to LOL
As an American, I loved to see Alex Jones get the mockery he deserves! On the other hand, the BBC might want to rethink its automated camera/cueing thing. It looks like a disaster.
TV guy here. What you might not realize is these cameras are all part of a larger automation system that controls audio, graphics and camera cuts. But the automation is only as good as the person who's coding it. That's why in some parts of this video you can't hear the anchor. Her mic wasn't coded right and the level didn't come up when it needed to. Same reason a story rolls, then the tease starts at 9:12. Could also be that they're advancing accidentally to the next item in the rundown before the story finishes. Like at 09:10. Another observation I've noticed with all these BBC bloopers is it seems the directors don't know how to manually punch the show... So if the automation fails, everyone just kind of sits there awkwardly or the video keeps rolling under the audio or whatever. I'd be curious to know what automation system they use.
i saw some of these as they happened live, i hope they never get rid of the automated cameras, funniest thing i have ever seen is when someone is being dead serious and the camera just trails off
MAY 1988 ONE recent Saturday night, Connie Chung, the anchor of the weekend version of ''NBC Nightly News,'' was reading an urgent story about the Middle East, when she began to disappear. The studio camera had inexplicably begun to move from its position, pushing Ms. Chung's image from the screen as it glided across the studio floor. Ms. Chung might have motioned to the cameraman, except there was no cameraman. The source of her distress was a robot, one of NBC's new self-operating cameras, that had apparently gotten a case of wanderlust. The unusual incident was Ms. Chung's personal introduction to the new age of cost efficiency in network television, ((Very Shotly after they instalation they were remove as maintance cost were higher than having a Studio Crew))
Everyone saying things about the automatic cameras...but actually those automatic cameras are controlled by humans, the only difference is that instead of doing it physically you do it from a distance.
9:08 is the best just because you can feel the sense of “I've fucked it! Quick change back! No wrong tape! No that was the right one! Mash all the buttons!"
