ARmy Rumour SErvice

**bigeye** · 20-06-2012, 22:00

Originally Posted by King_of_the_Burpas

Aye. Never worked with the one armed bandit. Was someone else, who did the shoot on the balcony when the Serbs changed their start line at that hotel. He was larruped all the time.

What gets me is the predictability of the pictures with the 'Jacks'. Every PTC has to feature the presenter walking towards camera waiving her (usually) arms about, then a voice over of some ethnic person washing the dishes and a straight cut to a tightly shot interview, with about seven cutaways to a pair of wringing hands every 30 secs to cope with the edit.

The last one I saw was a piece for This World from Honduras about death squads. It was like watching a media studies student's exam video.

Oh. How many times recently have you noticed the Beeb and Sky film an interview with their own taxi driver?

The wringing hands cutaway has been given the flick for news: it suggests nasty manipulative edits.

Your description of the formula omits the fact that everything will have been shot with the 'diddy-cam' held at chest level - and will therefore be shooting up the subjects nostrils. The little dears don't know how to use a big proper camera.

I love the 'salt of the earth' taxi vox pop. Especially when it's raining and the desk has sent you off to ask members of the public questions about the ERM? 'Excuse me sir can we just ask you a couple of questions about foreign exchange rates in Europe...?'

**King_of_the_Burpas** · 20-06-2012, 22:11

Originally Posted by bigeye

I love the 'salt of the earth' taxi vox pop. Especially when it's raining and the desk has sent you off to ask members of the public questions about the ERM? 'Excuse me sir can we just ask you a couple of questions about foreign exchange rates in Europe...?'

Funnily enough, that's what all the cabbies were on about on both channels. Mr Nicoliades Staphanos in a shitty old Merc giving it large about the Greek crisis. The only difference between the Beeb and Sky was that in every BBC clip, the reporter in the back was wearing a seatbelt. But on Sky, no seatbelt was to be seen.

Either way the result was the same: "Errr, we poor Greeksh. I pay $8m for my cab and, errrr, cannot afford it. You bunch of cunts, yes? Airport?"