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VA
valley
Mouseboy33 posted:
When they did their SkyNews Raw experiment, their section of SkyCentral looked so drab and boring. The newsroom was basically stark off white walls and the odd picture here or there. Geez. Shows how its important to "dress" things up for television. Doesn't have to be over the top. But at least some effort is need to keep it looking lively especially if you want people to watch for more than a 20 mins. Particularly for the casual viewer.


The newsroom isn't in Sky Central. It's in Sky Studios over the road, where the galleries and Studio 6 is.
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Ittr
valley posted:
where the galleries and Studio 6 is.

You do surely mean Studio N6, right? Laughing
SP
Steve in Pudsey
I'm pretty sure the answer to that is no.
MO
Mouseboy33
valley posted:
Mouseboy33 posted:
When they did their SkyNews Raw experiment, their section of SkyCentral looked so drab and boring. The newsroom was basically stark off white walls and the odd picture here or there. Geez. Shows how its important to "dress" things up for television. Doesn't have to be over the top. But at least some effort is need to keep it looking lively especially if you want people to watch for more than a 20 mins. Particularly for the casual viewer.


The newsroom isn't in Sky Central. It's in Sky Studios over the road, where the galleries and Studio 6 is.

Well whichever building its located in its all bland and boring. Rolling Eyes
IS
Inspector Sands
Mouseboy33 posted:
When they did their SkyNews Raw experiment, their section of SkyCentral looked so drab and boring. The newsroom was basically stark off white walls and the odd picture here or there. Geez. Shows how its important to "dress" things up for television. Doesn't have to be over the top. But at least some effort is need to keep it looking lively especially if you want people to watch for more than a 20 mins. Particularly for the casual viewer.

Surely the idea or showing something 'raw' is to do just that, not dress it up for television?
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 8 March 2020 9:10am
VA
valley
Mouseboy33 posted:
valley posted:
Mouseboy33 posted:
When they did their SkyNews Raw experiment, their section of SkyCentral looked so drab and boring. The newsroom was basically stark off white walls and the odd picture here or there. Geez. Shows how its important to "dress" things up for television. Doesn't have to be over the top. But at least some effort is need to keep it looking lively especially if you want people to watch for more than a 20 mins. Particularly for the casual viewer.


The newsroom isn't in Sky Central. It's in Sky Studios over the road, where the galleries and Studio 6 is.

Well whichever building its located in its all bland and boring. Rolling Eyes


It's a newsroom, never seen in vision (other than on Sky News Raw)... I'm not quite sure what you really expected the newsroom to look like?

There are lots of screens showing various sources (including TX) around the newsroom - and it has windows on two sides and a view into the galleries on another side - which you didn't really see on Sky News Raw.
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Stuart
valley posted:
It's a newsroom, never seen in vision (other than on Sky News Raw)... I'm not quite sure what you really expected the newsroom to look like?

Perhaps people expect every newsroom to look like the BBC's at NBH, which is designed to be seen on TV umpteen times a day from trundle-cam, and as a background for Studio E.
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dosxuk
It's the US influence, where your newsroom has to literally scream WE'VE GOT ALL THE GADGETS, and have 15 presentation points, and be an absolute hive of activity / chaotic 25 hours a day in order to be taken seriously. Ignore the people who actually have to work there, and their annoying habit of actually wanting to be able to see daylight at some point in the day, when you can fill the walls with LED screens constantly flickering away with pointless graphics and video feeds instead.

There have definitely been complaints that the NBH newsroom is too boring, and the hoop needs to be proper video resolution, a LED wall needs putting round the entire balcony, and reporters should never go into the studio, they should always be filmed at their desks in the newsroom.
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Stuart
dosxuk posted:
. . . and reporters should never go into the studio, they should always be filmed at their desks in the newsroom.

It infuriates me when a presenter in E does a live interview with someone on the perch overlooking the newsroom at NBH. Why not just go down the stairs and sit next to the person who is interviewing you?
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Markymark
Stuart posted:
dosxuk posted:
. . . and reporters should never go into the studio, they should always be filmed at their desks in the newsroom.

It infuriates me when a presenter in E does a live interview with someone on the perch overlooking the newsroom at NBH. Why not just go down the stairs and sit next to the person who is interviewing you?


I'm with you, it's utterly ridiculous. BBC South Today sometimes do the same thing witn their own 'journo to journo' interviews, which is doubly ludicrous
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watchingtv
Markymark posted:
Stuart posted:
dosxuk posted:
. . . and reporters should never go into the studio, they should always be filmed at their desks in the newsroom.

It infuriates me when a presenter in E does a live interview with someone on the perch overlooking the newsroom at NBH. Why not just go down the stairs and sit next to the person who is interviewing you?


I'm with you, it's utterly ridiculous. BBC South Today sometimes do the same thing witn their own 'journo to journo' interviews, which is doubly ludicrous

Simple explanation for local news doing that.
The 'journo' probably doesn't want to be need the dog that's about to appear on the sofa...
NG
noggin Founding member
Stuart posted:
dosxuk posted:
. . . and reporters should never go into the studio, they should always be filmed at their desks in the newsroom.

It infuriates me when a presenter in E does a live interview with someone on the perch overlooking the newsroom at NBH. Why not just go down the stairs and sit next to the person who is interviewing you?


Markymark posted:
Stuart posted:
dosxuk posted:
. . . and reporters should never go into the studio, they should always be filmed at their desks in the newsroom.

It infuriates me when a presenter in E does a live interview with someone on the perch overlooking the newsroom at NBH. Why not just go down the stairs and sit next to the person who is interviewing you?


I'm with you, it's utterly ridiculous. BBC South Today sometimes do the same thing witn their own 'journo to journo' interviews, which is doubly ludicrous


It makes perfect sense if the reporter in question is working to multiple outlets in NBH. It's a lot quicker to switch a remote contribution position between studios.

In the case of interviews carried out by business presenters (who seem to be tied to catwalk presentation) it also solves the problem of having to do a standing 1+1, or doing two studio interviews back-to-back without having to do quick seat changes.

In boring TV grammar terms, interviewing someone from the newsroom also has an implication that they are 'staying across the story' and reporting from where they work. TV News presentation is still story telling after all...

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