Ha, very true Bede. :) Frontline it was and I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Adams for a change :) Cheers, Bruce Ashley Senior Technical Writer A subsidiary of The Boeing Company -----Original Message----- From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of SUNTER Bede Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2005 2:08 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: 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 -----Original Message----- From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of BJA Sent: Monday, 21 February 2005 13:12 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: (O.T.) For Those Who Missed The "Secrets and Lies". 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 -----Original Message----- From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Edward Granat Sent: Sunday, 20 February 2005 1:39 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: (O.T.) For Those Who Missed The "Secrets and Lies". 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 Write Ideas* Carnegie, Victoria, Australia. E-mail: megranat@xxxxxxxx *Trading As business #0828673K Registered (1987) Corporate Affairs Victoria Plain English Technical Communication. Advertising Copywriting. Business Writing. 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. ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. 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