But wasn't it all a prerecord until we saw David sat at the desk when the sound then seemed to be ok?
I wish they'd run a few seconds of David waiting for a cue rather than static which makes it so obvious it's a prerecord off the back of the ident. Happened last time as I recall too.
Agreed about the move from real to virtual studio, very nice.
Those fake newsroom backdrop LED's are really annoying, wouldn't making it blue or pink or something and keying it as a virtual set be easier and make it clearer?
The hand over to the virtual area is very impressive.
They tried it once or twice last time, I seem to remember. There are still a lot of perspective issues when doing it (things moving out of proportion to reality, especially noticeable underneath the visible camera).
Seems Sky have now gone back to the previous music they've used for decision time in the past and graphics seem now similar to that of the previous elections.
They've abandoned double headed presentation and gone with Adam Boulton with guests around the main desk and wide views of the big screen.
Those fake newsroom backdrop LED's are really annoying, wouldn't making it blue or pink or something and keying it as a virtual set be easier and make it clearer?
No. For the virtual set to work, it needs to know where it is, so if a camera see's a green LED on the other side of the studio it know's there's no set there so leaves it alone.
Is the Sky Videowall (current and previous) not LED? They had transparent tiles to diffuse the LED's and make it an acceptable backdrop.
They're different methods of using LEDs. These BBC ones have a much bigger pitch than the Sky ones will have, so a diffuser wouldn't help. I would imagine they're also a lot cheaper, considering they're covering such a large area.
Those fake newsroom backdrop LED's are really annoying, wouldn't making it blue or pink or something and keying it as a virtual set be easier and make it clearer?
No. For the virtual set to work, it needs to know where it is, so if a camera see's a green LED on the other side of the studio it know's there's no set there so leaves it alone.
Yes but could they not create a virtual set that is essentially just the newsroom backdrop loop animations floating in black space, replace the LED screens with a blue screen and key it out and replace with the set, THEN key the green out and replace it with Vine's set?
whats with the gap on the left hand side of the astons, looks like the whole thing is coming from Elstree, i thought the BBC News ticker would have been added at NBH, but its definitely not as the clock isnt quite the right font
