BBC Election Bus: Follow Up Pictures

IMC'er | 05.05.2005 18:44 | Cambridge

As promised, here are a small selection of pictures of when the BBC Election Circ-erm, Roadshow came to Cambridge on Tuesday of this week.

Firstly, a panoramic view...

This Marquee had live web terminals as well as random free stuff.

OOH! What's it's serial number, sir!?

A more scenic view.

And now the science bit, in the form of the OB vans.

Interview hotseats.

The "What Do You Think?" notice board.

In case you're wondering, that isn't the BBC's own mobile CCTV unit atop one of the Outside Broadcast (OB) vans, it's actually a high definition colour TV camera, for all those high angle tracking shots you may have seen when you watch BBC News shows.

So, now you know.

Apparently they've even had Bus Spotters coming along to see them.
Oo-er!
Scary!

See also here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2005/05/310607.html

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IMC'er

Comments

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Pyjama Party Girl

06.05.2005 10:32

How fucking interesting!

IMC'er said, "Apparently they've even had Bus Spotters coming along to see them."

Looks like you are one of them, mate!

Fred Dinage, Jon Miller, Bunty James and Jack Hargreaves the fuck is this news!

Pyjama Party Girl

06.05.2005 10:32

How fucking interesting!

IMC'er said, "Apparently they've even had Bus Spotters coming along to see them."

Looks like you are one of them, mate!

Fred Dinage, Jon Miller, Bunty James and Jack Hargreaves the fuck is this news!

ob fetish

06.05.2005 11:53

i used to construct outside broadcast vans - for htv, itn etc.
so i know my stuff so to speak.

one day i was walking through leeds and came across one of those police video vans
that everyone must see in their home town hanging around. the side door was open so being
the curious monkey that i am i popped my head around. what greeted me was all too familiar.
basically a small outside broadcast unit with monitors, video recording camera control
sound - the lot basically. about £250,000 worth of stuff.

nice to know that the police are spending our money wisely and not wasting it
on poor quality civilian monitoring equipment.

curious monkey

Voyeurvision (tm)

06.05.2005 13:56

Yes, you're right in your conclusion, I was (by inference) making a link between how similar other remote surveillance technology is to broadcast technology.

I was also hinting at how Television ultimately started to make it more 'morally acceptable' (with Gameshows, Fly-on-the-wall documentaries etc, and live News coverage) for us to live in a voyeur-vision culture.

The thing that is also interesting is the way in which the broadcaster (in this case the BBC) rebrand/revise reality in their own name, in this case, it's the "BBC Election".
It could just as easily be (given worst case conditions) "The Pepsi Elections".

Perhaps I should have made these things more explicit, then maybe we wouldn't have got the first stupid comment above, although I'm sure many of you were clever enough to work this out for yourself when you saw the pictures.

That is why I went along to photograph this media happening.

The spectacle culture roadshow, coming to a town where you live.

IMC'er

Scrap the BBC poll tax

11.05.2005 19:40

There's plenty of free propaganda available, so why should we be forced to pay the governmennt for some more? The BBC stinks. Let's get rid ot it.

mick

Free stuff

11.05.2005 19:42

The BBC marquee didn't have any 'free stuff' I was forced to pay the BBC to help buy that stuff or I'd have been fined for watching football on Sky TV.

mick