Gary Critcher
I spotted this the other day on the Sky F1 listings.
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Dave Mundy
Yes, I often see miss-spellings on the Sky News ticker-tape as well! Some years ago they showed a graphic of the site an air-crash in Romania as being just below Shanghai on the east coast of China, and on another day there was a mistake on the 10:00 bulletin which occurred in the same place on the 11:00 (recorded news – surely not, Rupert!) .
Nick Way
….in my experience, quite a number of Graphics Operators are dyslexic which allows them to be natural at layouts. Often spelling mistakes are just copied from Production who are quite often wrong!
Nick Rodger
Could the sound assistant who’s never plugged a mic up wrong, or the sound sup who’s never faded up the wrong mic, or the cameraman (sorry, person) who has never, ever, lost focus please make themselves known.
We’re none of us perfect.
Pat Heigham
See:
http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/retake-thats-a-wrap/
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Gram Op Finger Trouble!
In the 1960s I worked on a fantastic programme to celebrate Winston Churchill’s 90th Birthday.
It took the form of a résumé of the entertainments that would have been prevalent during his life –music hall – plays etc. I was busy on most of the pre-recorded, well-staged reconstructions, and the whole thing was to be assembled like a live show in LG ‘G’, with 625, 525 Ampex, 16 and 35mm telerecording also.
The Director was Michael Mills, Len Shorey the Sound Supervisor.
There were loads of telecine and VT inserts, Noel Coward live narrating in the studio, and lots of audio tape material of speeches and music.
Accidentally, I forgot to close the fader after a piece of taped narration, and it ran on into the next cue! Michael Mills was furious and stomped into the Sound Control shouting at me: “That’s going all over the World, and you’ve made a mistake!” I wished the floor would open. Just after that, there was a cut to a caption camera that focussed up late, on shot, then a VT insert was miscued, and the opening music bars were missed, so then it all came to a grinding halt. Of course, it all went back to the point of my mistake, so I was wearing it.
Barry Bonner
If you want your boys to learn English why not send them to Eton…….? Dog owners please note!
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John Howell
Oh dear, we’ll be around to the "No smoking ban" in the Sypher Areas again!
Alec Bray
A collection of signs outside the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. Shades of smoking behind the bike sheds at school.
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Gary Critcher
A few years ago when I worked in Sky TX, from midnight Sky Sports News was on tape (one tape for each programme part = 4 tapes per hour) until 6am.
We used to repeat the 11pm to midnight slot all through the night.
This one evening it just so happened that Jose Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea: Chelsea announcing it officially at just about a quarter past midnight. Being on tape through the night meant that this ‘huge’ story didn’t make Sky Sports News until 6am, when Sky News themselves had been running it all night.
Apparently Vic Wakelin (Head of Sport at Sky) wasn’t best pleased. Sports News went ‘live’ for 24 hours a little while later.
