Why I HATE announcers

[Flash Gordon]

Greetings fellow dyr's,

Do you remember when we all complained about announcers talking over credits, but were completely ignored so gave up?

I'm still fuming about it, and promise to never stop fuming about it

I'm sure the channels have all studied us and our viewing habits, and concluded that announcing the next programme is most likely to keep us tuned - and I understand that - but you can just put up an information bar, without some infuriating moron talking over the credits!

I can tolerate it most of the time when I don't care about the programmes, but what I cannot stand is when it's a great film, and, with a great film, just like a certain other pleasurable activity, there's an afterglow. A pause to reflect on the enjoyment just received, and the music played is often perfectly selected for that, as the credits role.

This moment is now clumsily and clankingly ruined by some idiotic announcer going on (and on and on) about Made in Chelsea, or some other awful show coming up in three weeks time. It completely destroys the moment of appreciation, and sabotages the mood.

And, what is with that BBC announcer guy, the one who sounds like he's sitting on nails with a gun to his head not to talk too loudly? "nnnd Cmming Up onnnn beebeec2...." AARR!!!

[xmark1234]

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i use to hate this when i use to record music from radio and films on tv on old vhs tapes and tape recorders use to hate towards the end of a good song they come on and say someat lol

[DemonEyeX]

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Fully agree.
It winds me up hugely when credits are interfered with.
Or on further occasions, almost completely destroyed.
I have a few movie credits myself (low budget flicks, nothing that you would have heard of) & I would be incredibly insulted if I didn't get respectfully credited.
If they don't split the screen & talk over everything, then they speed everything up tremendously so it's practically impossible to read.
People work hard & rightfully deserve to be credited accordingly.

[Trickyvee]

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I agree, I've always feel sorry for the people in the credits when they reduce the screen or speed them up. I'm not so bothered about people talking over credits though. I'm usually not listening anyway!

It used to annoy me when recording the charts but then again technically it was illegal and I should have been out buying the records, but my old mix tapes are full of chopped off beginnings and ends and random words from DJs. I used to make a rough recording then edit out bits as best I could. Took ages!

[darren]

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would like to see these things u ave been in.

it always saddens me when i hear of people who are in films etc and i hear they are not credited and why are they not credited if your in something u should be credited.

Fully agree.
It winds me up hugely when credits are interfered with.
Or on further occasions, almost completely destroyed.
I have a few movie credits myself (low budget flicks, nothing that you would have heard of) & I would be incredibly insulted if I didn't get respectfully credited.
If they don't split the screen & talk over everything, then they speed everything up tremendously so it's practically impossible to read.
People work hard & rightfully deserve to be credited accordingly.

[DemonEyeX]

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would like to see these things u ave been in.

I haven't actually "been in" the films I mentioned, not in any on screen role.
But I have worked on a few different soundtracks for various low budget UK horrors.
Most recently some of my stuff has been in the Bloody Cuts series.

Saying that though, in the past I have "acted" in several ultra low budget horror shorts with various friends of mine. (Some of who are now doing really well as directors, writers & producers).

[PC66]

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I agree entirely. I remember a time when voiceovers on top of the closing credits were restricted to the occasional announcement which referred to the show just ending: "That was the last in the present series" or "Next week's episode is at the earlier time of 7:40" or similar. Now it's flying captions announcing "next up," endless chatter about totally unrelated things throughout almost the entire closing sequence, and the credits shrunk into one corner making them completely unreadable so they can preview other things - And even with the sound from the trailers for those other shows over the end of the show you're trying to watch! And then between items it seems to have become a frenzy of frantically paced previews and endless noise, as though they feel they have to fill up every last second with something. Remember when it was common to have three or four seconds of silence with the BBC globe between the announcement and the actual cut to the opening of the show?

I just about gave up on broadcast TV for serious viewing of the old shows I like some years ago. Not only are the credits hacked about, but many shows are now edited for present-day broadcast anyway, either by the loony "PC" mob looking for "offensive" things in 40-year-old seires, or just by the networks trying to squeeze more and more commercials (and self-plugging previews) into a half-hour or hourly slot. I prefer to invest in DVD sets, since prices are generally pretty reasonable these days, and you have the complete series to keep indefinitely as well.