Don't recall seeing this shared on here before, but Clickspring have put some images up of the newish Washington set:
Shame we haven't seen them able to use the new set more flexibly yet - as predicted by some on here the screens move around and everything, and some nice-looking OTS graphics too (although see if you can spot the error in one of them...!). Thus far I think on air we've pretty much just seen a locked off wide shot and a close-up of the presenter in front of the screens.
As a nice little bonus, there are also some CGIs of the original design, including a top-down shot for the studio mockers and a mock-up of a US election night from Washington we never really saw!
I prefer the design of the modesty panels and the placement of the BBC News logo on the render than the real thing. Still looks good though. Shame about the locked down cameras shots though.
That's the trouble - certainly on Katty and Christian you only see a postage stamp sized shot of the backdrop in the split screen - baffles me why they have to have both hosts in shot when one is leading on a story. And here we rarely see World News America but as you say when we do we don't see much more than a head-on shot.
It is a really nice design though and the split screens are something I could see working in Studio E.
Look at the reflection on the floor - it's not actually on the screen, it's been added by clickspring. They use the exact same image on one of their renders from before the studio was built.
Look at the reflection on the floor - it's not actually on the screen, it's been added by clickspring. They use the exact same image on one of their renders from before the studio was built.
That's the trouble - certainly on Katty and Christian you only see a postage stamp sized shot of the backdrop in the split screen - baffles me why they have to have both hosts in shot when one is leading on a story.
That's a good point. I think Newsday did the two-presenters-in-different-locations thing best latterly (before it went off air) when they had the two interact together on-screen but then switched between locations to each presenter when appropriate. I suspect that would use more resources at the moment though, so unlikely to be an option any time soon.
