By rule, The KOMO School of TV News Production loves to keep its anchors on camera when video is rolling, even dramatic video of violent/rowdy fan behavior in NYC. Plus, they add (every five seconds) area temps and forecasts screen right, a rolling headline ticker and a two-line lower third font. Phew. That rivals Fox13's Live Desk malaise. I know, we must be multitaskers, but this seems excessive early in the morning!
This is too much to be looking at all at once at any time of day, especially first thing in the morning. KOMO's morning newscast is decent, but it needs some visual decluttering!
ReplyDeleteDecluttering... Perfect word IDC!
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DeleteThe question is what to remove in order to achieve the visual decluttering. At minimum, I don't think we need to see the anchors on screen when video is rolling. If we want to go further, the area temperatures and forecasts could go as the weather is covered every ten minutes or so in George's weather segments.
It's a gimmick from the ND who always wants to see his anchors on screen. It's folly. Full video unless it's boring wallpaper file footage and leave weather to weather.
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