Quote: Mikey J @ December 15 2008, 12:53 AM GMTI hope the BBC have got Office 2007 like me as I'm finiding that a lot of people are having trouble opening my docs in earlier Word versions.
Probably you have this covered but just wondered if you were saving your docs in the 2007 format (suffix .docx). If you are, try using the old (and compatible with older version) .doc (no x) format.
Probably you have this covered but just wondered if you were saving your docs in the 2007 format (suffix .docx). If you are, try using the old (and compatible with older version) .doc (no x) format.
See, that's it. It's when I save them in old doc format when some people cannot open them. Very very strange.
Mind you... I said in the email (when I submitted the sketches) to contact me if they have compatibility issue... but WOULD they contact me?
I'd hate for me to lose out just because they couldn't open the buggers. 
Would saving as .rtf work?
Probably, but the whole idea of getting Word was to be more professional.
rtf was all I had before.
It's not a big problem as very few people have the compat problem, but it's just frustrating to know that this MAY happen from time to time, and that some people might not gt back to me, they might just not bother.
I've sent an email to the central address, asking whether they received my sketches safely.
Hopefully, it's still manned.
Fingers crossed chief.
Gareth Edwards, acting head of BBC radio comedy, looked over some of my sketches a few months back and said that most of the guys would read through stuff like that at home - so whilst beeb has the systems, f they're using home accounts they may not.
As it's a competition though, I'm sure they'll use their work computers with the latest Word.
Quote: Rick Allden @ December 14 2008, 10:43 PM GMTCheers for letting us know Antrax - did the bloke have an argument with the recorded message, by the by?
Depends on how you define argument I suppose. I'd say he was bemused if anything. Don't want to say too much in fear of spoiling the sketch when it is broacast, but to give a further clue, it was generally surreal and one of the options involved an angry monkey.
Ta Antrax - that monkey definitely rules mine out.
Quote: Pripyat @ December 14 2008, 8:01 PM GMTI'm Pete. I'd have stuck around to say hello, but we had to shoot off back up North asap. Such is life north of South Mimms services.
Anyway, Antrax was right - two of mine were used last night.
Ah. We noticed you shot off a bit sharpish before we got a chance to ask if you were coming to the pub. Looks like you chose the right recording, everyone there had surnames starting with B, C or D. Mine starts with W!
Quote: Mikey J @ December 15 2008, 12:53 AM GMTThis is all getting very nail biting.
My sketches were:
1) FISH OUT OF WATER.
A customer phones a pet shop telephone mail order service and tries to order a fish out of water.2) WIND UP RADIO.
Short, silly sketch.3) SHOP ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Cheekily, I put three shop tannoy announcements in one sketch in the hope that they create three runners out of them.
None of those sound familiar I'm afraid. Oh, and I don't think (3) is cheeky at all, it's a fine idea that's worked for me in the past. To be honest, I suspect you should probably have aimed for about six rather than three (give them the option of not liking a few and still having the option of a runner).
Quote: Bourbish @ December 14 2008, 9:05 PM GMTI did anti-social mobile (among others). Dunno if the one recorded was mine tho'...
The one recorded was about a girl trying to buy a more annoying phone to annoy everyone with.
Quote: Mikey J @ December 15 2008, 12:53 AM GMTThis is all getting very nail biting.
My sketches were:
1) FISH OUT OF WATER.
A customer phones a pet shop telephone mail order service and tries to order a fish out of water.2) WIND UP RADIO.
Short, silly sketch.3) SHOP ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Cheekily, I put three shop tannoy announcements in one sketch in the hope that they create three runners out of them.I hope the BBC have got Office 2007 like me as I'm finiding that a lot of people are having trouble opening my docs in earlier Word versions.
None of those sound familiar I'm afraid. (Edit - I just noticed I used exactly the same words as Antrax. That was lsightly confusing when I scrolled down just now.)
My three were:
1. Police radio.
2. Mystery shoppper store announcement.
3. Police bursting in on a guy hijacking a thread.
Quote: Nigel Kelly @ December 15 2008, 10:38 AM GMTMy three were:
1. Police radio.
2. Mystery shoppper store announcement.
3. Police bursting in on a guy hijacking a thread.
sorry. none of those ringing any bells either.
there was one I think I might have seen on here - reading out 'today's Sudoku numbers'.
Quote: Rick Allden @ December 15 2008, 10:31 AM GMTTa Antrax - that monkey definitely rules mine out.
Though to complicate matters - that may always have been put in by the script editors!
I'm really not sure I grasped what they were looking for.... I did three sketches:
1) HR automated service that was a very unsympathetic robot
2) A news report on dating agencies that through lack of communication were mismatching dates.
3) A man collapsing through sheer boredom at an art musuem when receiving info through headphones.
Does this sound like anything they might use??? I'm getting so confused!!!
You didn't happen to see any of mine pop up did you?
1) Continuity announcer about globe-trotting comedians
2) Continuity announcer about what was coming up, with a little snippet of each one (there was something about Mariah Carey and Hitler in there)
3) 2 people doing an internet quiz
Cheers
