> Aston is a company who provide systems for generating > on-screen graphics for live programmes - however it's also > used as a generic term for those same graphics. So the kind > of graphics like you get on the News where they'll say "Nick > Higham reporting", the name of an interviewee or similar.
It's amazing how manual the whole process is, still... And amusing for me (not for them, I'm sure) when little mistakes creep into live broadcasts :D When I was lucky enough to get a tour round the Mailbox studios (an unexpected one-off perk from one of my uni course's lecturers), I was quite surprised when we got to go into the control room during a new broadcast and suddenly had Natasha Kaplinsky's disembodied voice shouting "ASTON ON".... "ASTON..." "...ASTON OFF" at the vision mixer! Personally I think Brian Blessed's voice would been a better motivator ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
