Its quite sad but it gets on my nerves...the poor continuity sometimes... say, when he boards a 455 and then in the next scene hes sitting on a 377!
Its quite sad but it gets on my nerves...the poor continuity sometimes... say, when he boards a 455 and then in the next scene hes sitting on a 377!
Am I right to be confused when he travels 4m west from Piccadilly whilst en route to Fairfield?
Fairly standard for TV programmes on rail issues. They seem to work on the idea that any shot of a train en-route is acceptable as a cutaway.
It would perhaps be unduly costly to follow the actual trains Mr Portillo is aboard.
99% of the viewers couldn't care less.
Made In Leeds did something similar but to do with a film, as their presenter was traveling on a class 142 but upon Garforth alighted from a 185 - I called it out on them to see if anyone else had noticed.
but it could at least be the same type of train
Fairly standard for TV programmes
Nobody except train spotters care.
True enough, although you'd never see this sort of thing in a car programme. Man gets in a Lambo, climbs out of a 2CV. Nah.
Joe Public cannot tell the difference between an electric and a diesel train. A steam train they may notice. Your average viewer would notice the difference between a 2CV and a Lambrogini. As far as the average viewer is concerned, a train is a train is a train.
Also the cars will be at the disposal of the crew so they can drive them when and where they like within reason. Portillo has to work with scheduled trains so will be filmed boarding/alighting whatever turns up. They probably only have one film crew available so if he is filmed boarding at station A on a service ostensibly for B, when he is later filmed alighting at B it will actually be from a later train. Or maybe even an earlier one if that is more convenient, with the film being edited into the correct order for the journey.
Fairly standard for TV programmes on rail issues. They seem to work on the idea that any shot of a train en-route is acceptable as a cutaway.
It would perhaps be unduly costly to follow the actual trains Mr Portillo is aboard.
I laugh at the reversed footage they use on GBRJ, seeing trains travelling 'wrong way' on double track, often given away by the red lights leading when shots are from the ground.
How many times do we see actors/presenters boarding one train then alighting from another in the same scene. Poirot comes to mind. Mk1 stock used in a 30's/40's movie? Brief Encounter was about the only true movie that used the correct stock of the day.
Yes: exactly this. And, hopefully, that can be the end of the matter.
I laugh at the reversed footage they use on GBRJ, seeing trains travelling 'wrong way' on double track, often given away by the red lights leading when shots are from the ground.
Still an interesting series for us Yanks...and I could care less but won't.99% of the viewers couldn't care less.
99% of the viewers couldn't care less.