Back on the soapbox with a plea to the director of BBC’s generally splendid Match of the Day: Will you please make up your mind about your graphics?
If it’s not bad enough that substitutions are now announced merely by a caption in the bottom left hand corner of the screen while play continues, now it seems we have to cope with not one, not two, but three different graphics to introduce the teams, and if we’re lucky the system they’ll play, as the start of the game.
First up we’ll get a full screen line up and system type graphic while Motty, Pearcey or whoever witter over it, telling us who’s in who’s dropped to the bench and who’s got a groin strain.
Fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. So we’d better change it then.
So next up we’ll get a meaningless faux SkySports style split screen showing the teams and a small picture in the right hand third of the screen, while in the other two thirds we get a computer generated model of the ground and the clubs badges. Smart thinking, reduce the information we want to digest to less than a third of the screen to show off what the grapghics boys can do.
Which is bad and unnecessary enough, but even worse, later games just get the teams along the bottom of the screen, like some meaningless peripheral statistics, while the match highlights continue regardless.
Obviously this proves that, as a bloke, I cannot multitask. Well at half past ten on a Saturday night, I do not want to have to try. Will you just make up your minds and stop treating us like ADD children who’ve had too much fizzy pop and crisps?
[Stumbles off soapbox, muttering darkly about writing to the local MP]
If it’s not bad enough that substitutions are now announced merely by a caption in the bottom left hand corner of the screen while play continues, now it seems we have to cope with not one, not two, but three different graphics to introduce the teams, and if we’re lucky the system they’ll play, as the start of the game.
First up we’ll get a full screen line up and system type graphic while Motty, Pearcey or whoever witter over it, telling us who’s in who’s dropped to the bench and who’s got a groin strain.
Fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. So we’d better change it then.
So next up we’ll get a meaningless faux SkySports style split screen showing the teams and a small picture in the right hand third of the screen, while in the other two thirds we get a computer generated model of the ground and the clubs badges. Smart thinking, reduce the information we want to digest to less than a third of the screen to show off what the grapghics boys can do.
Which is bad and unnecessary enough, but even worse, later games just get the teams along the bottom of the screen, like some meaningless peripheral statistics, while the match highlights continue regardless.
Obviously this proves that, as a bloke, I cannot multitask. Well at half past ten on a Saturday night, I do not want to have to try. Will you just make up your minds and stop treating us like ADD children who’ve had too much fizzy pop and crisps?
[Stumbles off soapbox, muttering darkly about writing to the local MP]
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