The Newsroom

BBC Midlands Today

(May 2012)

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DF
DrewF
Just shown a timelapse there too of the new set being built - the window remains! It seems to be an entrance to the studio from the newsroom, with the set and desk now facing 90 degrees clockwise to where it was before.

Steve in Pudsey posted:
DrewF posted:
Well in front of the screens, but they have the room in those studios! Poor Matt Taylor looks miniscule when he does the weather from TC7.


Isn't it more to do with making it easier to light so there are fewer shadows on the screen?


You're probably right, but I think it is definitely a height thing as well - they stood right up against the screen when TC7 was first used for bulletins in early 2008, and the presenters were tiny in comparison to the graphics:

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/weather/bbc_images/weather_bbc_john2008a.jpg
HO
House
Andrew Wood posted:
One solitary pretend person in the pretend newsroom backdrop.


Budget cuts?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Do we think the swirls are out now as they don't feature on the screens?
MW
Mike W
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Do we think the swirls are out now as they don't feature on the screens?


Indeed they are, NBH doesn't and won't have them...
JA
james
Mike W posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Do we think the swirls are out now as they don't feature on the screens?


Indeed they are, NBH doesn't and won't have them...


Thank God, hate those things! Smile
PE
Pete Founding member
Andrew Wood posted:
http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/BBC1MT-2012-PIC-15.jpg

A definite change - less blue, more muted, the rear walls more creamy-beige in colour.

I found lunchtime more preferable - but it will be interesting to see the late bulletin.


Intersting they seem to be returning to cream and red - the original 1999 colours - rather than the somewhat harsh 2008 LN greys and whites. Stylish they may be but they never quite worked on screen.

The swirls tended to work on real "glass" such as in N8 but never seemed to work on lightbox/screen based backdrops. Just emphasised the fakeness of them.
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Oh well Midlands Today has now lost it's distinctiveness with its real newsroom backdrop.

Now it's just a clone of any other BBC region.
VM
VMPhil
Andrew Wood posted:
Tweaks in the lighting and colours since lunchtime - ready for the evening bulletin:

[snip]

How long did it take to find the exact same expression in both bulletins? Laughing
JO
Jon
I have mixed feels about this set. I like the colours and it certainly looks better on screen. I think bigger screens would have been better and more versatile say if they ever decide stick a sofa in for Late Kick Off for example (does anyone know if it’s coming back as part of the new football league deal?).

The size and shape of that table I suspect is more geared up for having just one main presenter, given the fact Suzanne Virdee was offered only a few months on her contract perhaps we should wonder whether this change is on the cards.

Overall I like this set. It would have also have been nice if the view of Birmingham was a bit less subtle. And whilst I would agree with whoever said it looked bigger than previous set, because it was so different to the national news sets the size mattered less then, than it does now.
MW
Mike W
Square Eyes posted:
Oh well Midlands Today has now lost it's distinctiveness with its real newsroom backdrop.

Now it's just a clone of any other BBC region.


The backdrop could just as easily return with the removal of the one wall, so I'd not say that - it's just not what the BBC want the regions to have, it's not as scaleable.
JO
Jon
Mike W posted:
Square Eyes posted:
Oh well Midlands Today has now lost it's distinctiveness with its real newsroom backdrop.

Now it's just a clone of any other BBC region.


The backdrop could just as easily return with the removal of the one wall, so I'd not say that - it's just not what the BBC want the regions to have, it's not as scaleable.


I think if we're honest, this looks better on screen.
MW
Mike W
Jon Wells posted:
Mike W posted:
Square Eyes posted:
Oh well Midlands Today has now lost it's distinctiveness with its real newsroom backdrop.

Now it's just a clone of any other BBC region.


The backdrop could just as easily return with the removal of the one wall, so I'd not say that - it's just not what the BBC want the regions to have, it's not as scaleable.


I think if we're honest, this looks better on screen.


Well quite, there;s no more leaving staff - we've gone from one lifeless newsroom to a lifeless newsroom with colour!

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