Hi folks
I’m looking for some help!
I’m doing some background work on VoD and IPTV and wonder if anyone can provide me with some screen shots/pictures of Virgin’s Catch-Up and VoD system – basically the front pages from the main menu’s and the screen shot when you go to play something back.
Anyone’s help would be very much appreciated 
Does anyone have any screenshots of the freeview menus if there are any??
Cheers,
D.
I thought you guys might like a wee look at the screen shots for Liberate 1.2
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According The Guardian, the shots were edited with interviews to make it look like Yentob was reacting to the subject, when he did not actually perform the interviews himself.
It has been suggested that while Yentob conducts interviews with the main subjects of the programme, conversations with other interviewees featured were edited to make it look like Yentob was present.
BBC’s Yentob in ‘noddy’ controversy
I’m just astonished!
He wasn’t even there but was reacting to the subjects?
We’ve had the BBC phone scandals, now surely it’s time the BBC banned nodding shots, which surely mislead viewers.
From mediaguardian.
I am assuming Sky showed this error as it was just the live feed of CBS Evening News.
Sky broadcasts Diana injury shots
Tara Conlan
Friday August 31, 2007
MediaGuardian.co.uk
Sky News re-broadcast a CBS news report featuring photos taken of Princess Diana receiving oxygen shortly after her fatal crash. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA.
Sky News has aired the controversial pictures of the late Princess Diana being given oxygen in the Mercedes at the scene of the Paris car crash that killed her.
On the day of the 10th anniversary of her death, the channel showed the distressing scene during a broadcast from US network CBS Evening News in the early hours of the morning.
The first photographs showed Diana in the car with no visible injuries while the second and third photographs showed Diana receiving treatment.
All three photographs are in black and white but are clearly of Diana, and in the last one she looks in distress.
They were shown during Sky’s re-broadcast of the CBS Evening News, which is produced in New York.
The photos were shown midway through the news in a report that raised the possibility that Diana could have been saved if paramedics had followed US treatment procedures rather than French ones.
Unlike in Channel 4’s recent documentary Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel, which contained a single image showing a doctor trying to fit an oxygen mask to Princess Diana’s face, in which the whole of her head has been blocked out, in the CBS footage, her face can be seen.
In June, a row broke out over Channel 4’s documentary after Princes William and Prince Harry asked the broadcaster not to air pictures of the crash that killed their mother and the aftermath.
Channel 4 defended the decision, saying a number of the more contentious pictures had already appeared elsewhere, including a BBC Panorama documentary and the front page of the Sun, and that the faces of the victims were never shown.
Most critics agreed the programme had dealt with the subject in a sensitive way and that the images were not as graphic as pre-transmission reports had suggested.
However, the CBS report shows Diana’s face clearly.
Sky’s broadcast prompted complaints from some viewers, who were not warned the pictures were being aired. One said: “There were no prior warnings on Sky News that the disturbing photos would be shown.” The report is still running on the website of CBS News.
The news channel is not showing live coverage of the Diana memorial service today but is airing reports and tributes about the anniversary of her death.
The Princess Diana service of thanksgiving is however being aired on BBC1, BBC News 24, ITV1, CNN, Fox and EuroNews. Sky News decided not to pay to run the event.
· To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 7278 2332.
· If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly “for publication”. The first photographs showed Diana in the car with no visible injuries while the second and third photographs showed Diana receiving treatment.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas…ged-shots.html
Five News editor David Kermode has today banned the use of ‘reaction’ or ‘nodding’ shots his team’s reports, in a bid to restore viewer trust in television.
Is this kind of thing a bit excessive?
I’m aware that there is alot of distrust for the broadcasters at the moment, but is this kind of thing really necessary?
Personally, I always find the ”noddie” shots quite irritating because I know how they are produced, with the interviewer staring at an empty chair while they are filmed.
But I suppose they have a certain kind of purpose when filming with just a single camera. Without them, there would certainly be a void and a kind of visual blandness. And, are these shots really decieving anyone? They’re only showing us what we’d see if the crews were using multiple-camera set-ups.
I can see that it’s important to restore trust between the viewer and broadcaster, but isn’t this just taking things too far? I don’t see any real merit in this kind of thing.
As written about here: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas…ged-shots.html
When I read the title of the article, my first thought was “That’s good news”. However, after reading it, I’m actually not that bothered that they’re going to ban staged shots. From the article:
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Shots where a reporter is seen nodding, looking sad or attentive – apparently in reaction to the interviewee – are just one of uses of ’staged’ shots that Kermode has clamped down upon.
Other technique…include the use of ‘contrived cutaways’, shots that are cut with the main action to depict supposedly concurrent action; ‘contrived walking shots’, where the interviewee is asked to walk up the stairs so a set-up shot can be filmed for example, and ‘staged questions’, where a reporter is filmed asking questions, usually to an empty chair, so they can be edited in later.
I actually think most of the above allows the viewer to get a better picture of the story. Even the “asked to walk up the stairs” shots are sometimes neccessary to get a point across. I don’t even see anything wrong in the “nodding, looking sad or attentive” shots because again, I think they add to what the report is trying to get across, especially when dealing with one on one interviews.
I think if you take a lot of set up shots away, you may actually be left with quite cold news.