You see, the reality of The Bank Job is, it’s “just” a competitive version of the Monkhouse Golden Card Game from Bob’s Full House, isn’t it?
http://youtu.be/81XC2hyLkHo
And they say there’s no original formats left.
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Um, about the “In The Pipeline” section on UKGS, A Question of Taste seems to be premiering a day later than it did, and The Exit List appears to have been scheduled in a brand new month.
I shall ask Eugene to sort it out. Just as soon as he’s finished with a Spinning Compact Disc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVMa0tQuDCk
Twitter isn’t playing nice, but this is something I found for you, Brig.
That is incredible.
Those behind the scenes videos in Related are interesting viewing too if you’ve not already seen them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xvA2A_WU_c
Lucky beggars getting to have a drink with Richard O’Brien.
Remix teriffic, thanks Alex!
Oh wow, hadn’t seen these behind the scenes clips before – Going to watch now. Thanks very much!
That’s just great.
I love how small the set looks when not being shot through wide angle telly cameras.
Also, the very definition of having too much time on your hands:
Is this the same person who claimed to be making a Flash Game based on the series – all seems a bit weird to me.
Ooh, they appear to have done another episode of Amateur Adventure Hour favourite The Fortress! Will watch when I get home:
http://youtu.be/hpImb6cFsL4
This gets a lot right. Sure, it doesn’t set out to be the most original thing in the world, and a few of the ideas could politely be described as underdeveloped. Nevertheless, there’s very clearly a lot of love involved, very clear thought that has gone into it and some interesting subtleties, not to mention a very considerable technical achievement. As Amateur Adventure Hour stuff goes, this is way up there; many home shows don’t manage to complete a single episode, and The Fortress has done two convincingly and with variety. Great stuff and I’m sure that the cast and crew would be very welcome here.
I think the direction on episode one is stronger (and I preferred their treasure room set up), but this episode had some pretty good ideas and as proofs of concept some of the games would probably work on Fort Boyard, and with a bit more ingenuity the Crystal Maze fairly well (the key block, for example, with a bit more pizazz would absolutely work as a Fort Boyard game). I hope they make more.
Other great thing about this: there is some association with Brookfield Community School, which is on Chatsworth Road in Chesterfield. (Cease, pedants, I know that UK FB was never a Chatsworth show, and you can look up the UK companies responsible like I did. Still, though; close enough to make me smile.)
I Didn’t realise that Bob wrote some of the questions.
It is quite interesting, although I wonder how much he did to get the credit.
I remember seeing in those Challenge mini-documentaries that Nicholas Parsons regularly wrote questions for Sale of the Century, as the American ones they were sent to use were a bit rubbish.
He also wrote for Celebrity Squares, I think, but in both cases it was always with half a mind on the gag that could follow it up.
Mmm, I was going to suggest that.
Another thing about Bob’s Full House – it always used to puzzle me how the credits used to appear on that rotunda. It used to look like it was just something they added in graphically later, but it matched so well that it must have been a projector inside doing it, or a very large TV.
I have wondered this, but could this easily be explained away with edits? I’m not convinced it’s a projection or a large TV, I don’t think the fidelity is there for it.
Get the logo on as it comes round, cut to the credit sequence, man comes on and swaps the card over during the applause, cut to it all moving away. That’s my guess anyway.
I think card with logo as board comes round, quick cut, blank card in – computer trickery on.
I reckon they have got three cards. One for Bob’s name at the start, a blank one to use on screen graphics for the other credits and a third one for the BBC Transmission year when we see that being revolved to see the logo at the end.
Possible, but an awful faff.
I was convinced it was some kind of trick too, but I’ve seen a couple of shows where the credits roll while the revolve is still wobbling to a stop, and the ‘join’ is just too good.
I think it might be one of those old ‘projector’ TVs they built into the revolve, but I also agree the picture quality seems too good to be true for mid-80s.
I’d argue it was more like (a personality-free, even more unnecessarily complicated version of) Press Your Luck.
Incidentally, I apologise if it takes a while for posts to appear if you’ve posted, I’m currently trialling something. It should all work out in the end.
As I can see how it might be used to improve the average quality of posts here (i.e. deleting Endemol spam), I’m all in favour of the thing what you are doing.
For balance, I should just point out that there are some worthwhile people at Endemol. Some.
Co-incidental fact – ‘Programme Associate and Question Writer’ Colin Edmonds ended up marrying the vision mixer on that very programme (and the rest of that series).
Anyway..
End credits. Easy (he says).
Bob says goodbye, revolve moves around, with the Bob’s Full House staring.. on a lamiated printed square afixed to the revolve.
Credit captions are superimposed in post-prod using a Quantel paintbox thingy matching the same square background, until the producer credit, where another laminated identical copy of the producer credit is fixed to the board by BBC man in overalls (edited out, obviously), and this is one we see disappear off screen in the high-up far off shot at the end of the sequence.
It could be done today with a super LED HD flatpanel screen, but they weren’t around back in the late 80’s.
At least that’s how I think it was done.