http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=924 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 04:05:09 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=924#post-2369 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:43:47 +0000 roffle 2369@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As the date for the first leadership debate gets nearer the BBC are still unable to confirm that it will be broadcast in 3-D as planned. ‘We have been working closely with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment,’ said Mark Keen, spokesman for BBC Current Affairs. ‘And it is our intention to use the same technology that he created the dazzling and beautiful planet of Pandora with to bring viewers the exciting spectacle of three middle-aged men in dark suits standing against a bland backdrop and sweating under powerful lights.’</p> <p>However this plan has run into problems as in some cases test screenings using party conference speeches have provoked fear in volunteer audiences. ‘It is true that our very youngest volunteers were terrified by the sight of David Cameron’s gigantic moon face looming out of the screen at them,’ Keen confirmed. ‘Apparently its unusual smoothness causes under-fives to instinctively believe that he is in fact not human.’</p> <p>There was also bad news for Gordon Brown as nine out of ten adult test audience members confessed that they didn’t listen to a word he said and instead spent all their time staring into his eyes and as one volunteer put it: ‘trying to work out which is the dodgy one.’</p> <p>By far the greatest technological challenge that has yet to be overcome and still threatens to scupper the BBC’s plans entirely is how to render Nick Clegg in 3-D. ‘We’ve been working on it for months,’ said a weary Mark Keen, ‘but as it stands we are still unable to successfully create an image of Nick Clegg that has any substance at all.’ </p>