atw: Re: (O.T.) For Those Who Missed The "Secrets and Lies".

Bruce,

"The comedy show 'FrontPage'"
=20
I think that comedy show was 'Frontline'.=20
FrontPage is a web development application=20
from Micr ... No, you're right, it's a comedy ...

Famously, Phillip Adams claimed to refuse to=20
watch 'A Current Affair' because, he said, "it was=20
only a send-up of Frontline."

cheers and regards
Bede

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In a single camera shoot, noddies are usually (but not always) done
after
the event so that the interviewer can be seen to interact with their
victim.
'Stock' noddies are also used from time to time as the need arises.

The comedy show 'FrontPage' used to lampoon this process all the time as
does 'Russell Coight' (he does the white hand into black hand handshake
when
both people are white etc.).

But you are right Brian, I hate it when they do too much of it as it
distracts from the story.

Cheers,

Bruce Ashley
Senior Technical Writer






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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Edward
Granat
Sent: Sunday, 20 February 2005 1:39 PM
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Yes, indeed, Brian.

A very intriguing observation.

Those noddies were rather distracting.  Just a tad too earnest and
concerned, as if Liz Jackson was making faces in a mirror.  I knew that
there was something odd about that show that irked me at the time and I
couldn't quite put my finger on it.  Plus it looked like she did her
noddy
shots in a completely different room or building.  I just hope that the
questions that we saw were actually the ones that were asked and, for
that matter, that Liz Jackson was the one who asked them!

One never even knows if the sequence and completeness of the answers
were edited for effect and a different slant on the story.

Believing one's own eyes isn't what it used to be.

For those of you on this list who are unaware of the TV industry term
"noddies" or "noddy shots", these are the cutaway shots of a journalist
/
presenter asking questions of an interviewee, from an interview during
which only one camera was available, which was aimed at the subject.

This is a commonplace TV industry practice, in which the journalist
re-reads his or her questions for the camera later, hopefully (but
rarely)
done in the same room, to be re-cut into the interview for broadcast.

Noddies are so named because they usually include supposed cutaway
shots of the interviewer nodding in agreement and looking pensively at
the
camera, as they hear and watch the playback of the interview.

In the worst examples of noddies, you can see that the room in which the
interviewer is seated is quite different to the one in which the
interview
was done and, sometimes, you can even see a reflection or glow of the
playback monitor in the interviewer's spectacles or in a background
object.

So, for you Enid Blyton fans, these noddies have nothing to do with her
books, unless the interviewer happens to have Big Ears.

Cheers,

Michael

Michael Granat
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Carnegie, Victoria, Australia.
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Advertising Copywriting.
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E&OE - Errors & Omissions Excepted

At 18:47 19/2/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Michael,
>Had a look at the docco. Rod was good value. Found Liz's noddies a bit
>distracting.
>If I had been in Rod's place and she actually pulled those faces, I
would
>have found
>it hard not to burst out laughing.
>Brian.

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