The Newsroom

Pre-budget Report

(December 2005)

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JA
jamesmd
Is this the first time we've seen a new Westminster set from Millbank? If so, why not plonk Dateline back in there?
NE
News24
Evan Davies used it last week to interview the bloke who did the Pensions Report.

It would make sense to put Dateline London back in, to relieve some of the pressure on studio space on a Sunday morning on N24, but you have to remember it will be a fair bit more cost effective to produce to keep it where it is. No extra studio taken up, no paying for camera operators, no additional technical requirements, therefore more cost effective.

While we are on the subject of the pre-election report, there' s been a shift change on N24; Jon and Louise were already on at 15.15 when I turned on. Presumably they've bumped up the shifts to get continuity around the Pre-budget report.

Good use of summary on-screen graphics as usual.
BN
Breakfast News
It's just a tarted up Daily Politics studio - nicer IMO than the one they usually use.
RT
rts Founding member
Any caps?
W1
w12
Now I didn't see this one, but the Evan Davies set last week was the one in the main Millbank newsroom. It's been there for years. It has curtains that can be drawn round the back so it can be an open view out into the newsroom, it can have a gauze-y effect with the newsroom kind of visible, or it can be curtained off, although I've never seen it. It's the one that's been used for TV Centre evacuations.

If you think of the normal Westminster newsroom single camera shot - go five yards or so into the background, look 90 degrees left - this set is about seven yards that way. Right in the newsroom.

As far as I know, the Daily Politics and many other Westminster shows are done in the proper studio, which is small and off a corridor. Same gallery though, and I think the same cameras are wheeled between one and the other.
RT
rts Founding member
w12 posted:
As far as I know, the Daily Politics and many other Westminster shows are done in the proper studio, which is small and off a corridor. Same gallery though, and I think the same cameras are wheeled between one and the other.

Indeedy. And following the corridor round theres a nice comfy area with two sofas were interviews with politicians are occassionally carried out.
JA
jamesmd
Is that studio still there, and are the DATELINE LONDON signs still on the pillars/desk?
NG
noggin Founding member
Jaimé Alexandéz posted:
Is that studio still there, and are the DATELINE LONDON signs still on the pillars/desk?


The studio is still there, and usually contains the Daily Politics set. The Newsroom set is still in the newsroom - though the newsroom is not a studio...

The Dateline signs on the pillars were removable (they were held on by hooks/eyes) - as there were other shows that came from that set as well (Westminster Live was one).
JW
JamesWorldNews
I notice on the current Dateline that the background noise from the newsroom can be a bit overwhelming. It's not ususally picked up on regular N24 output, so I can only imagine that the increased numbers of lapelle mics around the tiny desk at any given time automatically picks up surrounding sound radially. It's annoying.

Agree they should move it back to the old place, but as someone said above, economics!!
NG
noggin Founding member
BBC WORLD posted:
I notice on the current Dateline that the background noise from the newsroom can be a bit overwhelming. It's not ususally picked up on regular N24 output, so I can only imagine that the increased numbers of lapelle mics around the tiny desk at any given time automatically picks up surrounding sound radially. It's annoying.

Agree they should move it back to the old place, but as someone said above, economics!!


The more mics you have open, the more background noise you will hear, simple as that.

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