London Live

Watching "Not the One Show", hopefully they'll change that desk or get an autocue operator before they launch properly, the pedal on a box so the presenter can reach it looks laughable. Something to prevent the lights reflecting in the windows wouldn't go amiss either.

Hopefully thats a very early rehearsal (like from months ago). They need help with the lighting. No depth or texture lighting. That brick could look good with some pin spots or some uplighting. To simply blast the entire set with those low heat lights....makes for a mess. Not a good idea to have the windows in shot at night if dont have the budget to get the proper filters and films for the window panes. You end up with black holes. But its early, it hasnt launched yet, but I will be giving LondonLive the side-eye in the meantime.

That was live, tonight - they were discussing the Budget.

The lack of one?

By the time they launch, with the clocks going forward, it should still be light at 7pm which will help during the spring and summer months, yet it's far from ideal. They need to find a solution to the stool on a box with the peddle. The table is too high IMHO.

The whole framing is wrong. You've got a clear 10% of the bottom of the frame with nothing of interest in, while the top of the girl on the left's head is chopped off.

Anybody got a videoclips or more screenshots....hmmm. I know they are in rehearsals and the official launch hasnt happened. But IMO this shouldnt have been broadcast. Kinda disappointed this the best thats being offered up so close to launch. But Im going to with hold judgement.

In fairness I grabbed that from mid-way through a camera move

From where and to where though?

As I recall it started low, ped up then track to the right. It didn't look as bad as that grab implies.

I'm assuming this was just on satellite, where it isn't public facing yet. Well only to a few of us telly geeks.

That will depend on the direction the studio faces and whether it has any shade. Windows can be a curse in daylight as well - as you have to ensure you can reduce the light levels coming through them, or match them with your studio lighting (and cook people), to avoid them burning out...

In darkness you need control of the view outside the windows (something The One Show had in its old studio and has in its current studio) so you can light it to match the interior lighting levels to avoid the windows turning into mirrors, or just looking like black holes.

You also need a pretty high degree of skill to light to minimise reflections from interior studio lights on the windows and to taylor your plot for that situation, to allow for flexibility in camera positions, or to ensure you shoot a set sympathetically. That studio looks like it has been lit by someone more used to lighting PSC interviews rather than a studio with windows?

You also need to design your studio set and your shooting style to work with the limitations of your space. Always good to get decent separation as possible between your window and your subjects to help with key light reflections, and also good to not shoot too low if you can't solve reflection issues other ways.

All that said - this is almost certainly a not-for-broadcast pilot - and we should cut them some slack...