Extra Symbols?

[Rev. Green]

Is anyone else irritated by not knowing in The Planets series which scenes are real and which are computer-generated. It would be easy to include an on-screen symbol to tell us which. Wildlife and sports programmes could also have symbols to show when the action was slowed or speeded.

[ToraToraTora]

use your loaf, it's obvious.

[spathiphyllum]

I disagree. Computer generated images have got to such a level it's not always clear if they're real and superimposed or just computer generated.

A small symbol would do no harm.

[Rev. Green]

Wow! A lightning attack from the three tigers. If it is obvious to you, you have a much better brain than I.

[naomi24]

I don't find it necessary but I understand that some do. My friend really thought that computer generated pictures of black holes were real.

[Old_Geezer]

You mean that they don't have cameras in the Large Hadron Collider ?

[SlackAlice]

Don't really need them myself. If they do add extra symbols then they should also add an 'opt out' as well

[ToraToraTora]

just look at the pictures and listen, how could they have been acquired? also the commentary says things like "3.5bn years ago ....."

[spathiphyllum]

For example, it would be a very tiny, translucent computer or camera, in the top left corner.

I don't think there would be a need to 'opt out' as it would be so faint and subtle.

[spathiphyllum]

the Hubble Space Telescope can capture some amazing things.

[gingejbee]

Rev. Green....you're forgetting that 3T is a member of MENSA, supposedly.

[naomi24]

If you don't know there's nothing wrong in saying you don't know. Symbols would help some people to understand, so where's the harm?

[Spicerack]

Some of the 'static' on our old TV's was 13b+? years old, ttt.

I like the OP's idea. A few weeks ago,some people were given the impression that sea-lions flip-flopped up an 80ft? sheer cliff face by that old fraud Attenborough.

[Rev. Green]

This question arose when a friend noticed that some scenes in the first episode of The Planets had been filmed in the desert on Lanzarote - I had assumed they were computer-generated.
But I think the scheme is impractical. Too many symbols would be needed to cover all circumstances e.g. is a film of an actor playing Elizabeth I real?
Even speed can't be easily shown. When Hermione turns back the clock, she and Harry act in real time (X1) in the foreground, while the background recedes (X-500, say).

[bednobs]

Are you actually serious? you think there'd need to be something telling people that film of QE1 isn't real?

Actually, thinking about the great british public, you're probably right!

[douglas9401]

For the benefit of the visually impaired a small cymbal might be used too.

[jno]

cymbals might be best for the aurally impaired like me, douglas. But yes, there's been debate over the years about how and where footage on nature programmes is obtained: distrust probably goes back to those Disney ones of the 1950s that completely invented the lemming myth. I'd have no objection to proper identification.

[tiggerblue10]

They put a caption up saying what has been taken when a real image is shown.