Posts by Damian Christie
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Yeah good on ya Russ...
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to 3410,
Ironically there seems to be very little urgency to Katrina Shanks' contribution - it sounds more like an attempt to filibuster her own Government's Bill, crossed with a third-form impromptu debate.
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Joanna,
I think it sounds like Tiki was being a bit of a dick, to be honest. Unless he usually sings 'Fuck tha police' as part of his set, it seems unnecessary
He does (often) perform it as part of his set. I kinda agree that doing it because he saw police in the bar was potentially a dick move, but not an arrest-worthy dick move.
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Yeah it's not really advertising if you are paying the person to 'advertise' their product for them, which is what happens at the moment with 1 and 2. It's an historical oddity, and I believe a reasonably lucrative one.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Sacha,
And he has a foot on both eggshells, as it were. Brave
Who? Huh? Whaa?
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If you're interested, here's the Archive shotlist for that story with all the names - this refers to the original story, which I have edited down considerably, so people listed might be missing:
00:00 GV Merv Wellington, Minister of Education in primary classroom, children sitting on mat, Merv Wellington shakes teacher's hand.
00:29 I/V Jack Shallcrass, Educationalist, re Merv Wellington is unpopular due to paternalistic stereotypic teacher personality.
01:00 MS boy and girl raising flag, TRACKING SHOT row of students watching.
01:09 GV group of primary school-children walking home.
01:12 Students in secondary school classroom, primary schoolroom.
01:17 New Zealand flag flying.
01:19 I/V David Kerr, President New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI), re has always flown the flag but concerned about making it compulsory.
01:47 GVs INT secondary school classroom during lesson.
02:09 I/V Tony Steel, President, Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA), re Merv Wellington's support for UE against overwhelming research on it, Merv Wellington's ruling that there be only 10 weeks for submissions on curriculum review.
02:49 GV computer screen, GV school students at computer terminals, CU keyboard.
04:33 I/V David Kerr re doesn't believe schools have dropped basic 3 Rs standards.
04:51 MS Merv Wellington enters office.
04:59 COLOUR PRINT, CU computer screen, CU hands on keyboard.
05:13 I/V Keith Johnston, Coalition for Open Government, re threatened legal action to get Merv Wellington to release a report on use of school computers and core curriculum review.
05:51 MS Merv Wellington in church, GV congregation.
06:12 I/V Jack Shallcrass re he is unable or unwilling to negotiate.
06:30 Street outside movie theatre, CU poster "Hercules" and blind child at typewriter.
07:29 I/V David Kerr re Merv Wellington's ban on GY films, disagrees with this.
07:52 I/V Tony Steel re greatest thing (Merv) Wellington has done is the secondary staffing report.
08:10 CUs Merv Wellington in crowd leaving building (booing).
08:19 I/V David Kerr re Merv Wellington's secretive planning and lack of consultation/implementation.
08:39 I/V Tony Steel re his aloofness and decision making isolation.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Sacha,
Well it's only a persistent flaw for programmes like mine I guess. There are more ex-air copies these days (I believe every ONE News, Close Up, parts of Breakfast are recorded ex-air) which is good because otherwise all the live content would be lost - traditionally only the tape 'inserts' have been saved. For example there is no archive of a newsreader announcing the death of Norm Kirk. The first reference one can find is coverage of the state funeral however many days/weeks later.
Not hard-wiring the keys to the story makes sense though, when a story is on Close Up, say, and I want to use a few shots of that person talking for Q+A, or re-use that quote in another story - you can't key over another key, and having the Close Up branding in the middle of say, a Sunday story, would look weird.
However these days the cataloging process is much better, so all those names are being recorded for the future, which means Hindsight 2050 will be much more able to include all those missing names. I assume it was the Merv Wellington story you were referring to?
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Thanks Russell. I figured I'd trod on enough eggshells this week...
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
That's great to hear Geoff, thanks :)
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Hilary Stace,
But if you can, please can you put some screen labels on your commentators each time they appear.
If you’re talking about the guests I interview, they are all keyed (key = “screen labels”) and introduced by name. As for the people inside the stories themselves, the keys are generally not on the archive copy of the story - keys are usually inserted live at the time of broadcast, over top of the story, and unless an ‘ex-air’ copy of the show is recorded, they disappear.
I could insert keys over the archive material myself in some cases, but in many cases the names of the people aren’t recorded anywhere, not even in the archive records. It might simply say “IV Teacher” or ’IV Student”. To key some in some stories, but miss out others entirely didn’t seem ideal, so I’ve simply decided not to key anyone in the archive stories. The one exception I’ve made is the ANZAC Day episode, where not knowing that the two guys denying Agent Orange’s effects are the Minister of Health and the Minister of Defence makes quite a difference to the story…