Comments on: Brian Cox Time Mayan 2012

By: Famous for fifteen people « O’Really?

Famous for fifteen people « O’Really? — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:43:02 +0000

[...] Gia Millinovich so how come we rarely see you and your hubby Professor Brian Cox in Manchester? [...]

By: James

James — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:17:44 +0000

Blimey! I new TV produced a lot of unused material, but I’d never have thought it that high. Surely that must be something fairly unique to documentaries, or does that ratio include ‘outtakes’ and the like that all programmes are prone to? Or maybe lots of camera angles? I don’t get it! Hehe, well TV is known to for being mind blowingly expensive.

Still, all the more reason for an uncut version I say. Surely it represents free TV for the BBC?

(lol – the two recaptha word are ‘small dick’. What you trying to say?)

By: giagia

giagia — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:29:52 +0000

James, the ‘ideal’ shooting ratio for a programme is 10 to 1, that is 10 hours of rushes to every hour of edited programme. The real ratio tends to be way higher than that, and even moreso when there is a fly-on-the-wall or observational element to the programme. So *every* programme on TV will have tens of hours of unused footage.

Also, the reason why things are ‘cut’ from a programme tends to be because they don’t work or don’t fit. I’ve not seen the final version of the Time Horizon yet, but earlier cuts were about 10 minutes too long and even then loads of stuff wasn’t being used.

This is all totally and completely normal for programme-making!

By: James

James — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:37:54 +0000

Great videos! I was sceptical at first, but now I’m really forward to the show.

Shame to waste all that footage though. Why can’t they create an uncut version and show it on BBC4? I mean the bloody “Culture” Show gets two showings a week, so why not Horizon!?