The Newsroom

BBC News 2008

(April 2005)

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Matrix
benjy posted:
I'm sure if it were possible to have a real newsroom like News 24's in the background of the national set, they would use it instead of the fake one. But the location of the studio where the national comes from obviously does not permit this.

Having said that, if someone put their mind to it they could probably place some cameras somewhere in the newsroom to feed to the projectors, to make it look as if there is a real newsroom in the background. Although I imagine this could be very hard to do in practice.


Well it's been done before....
On the whole question of the national studio, the set, backdrop and giant screens just seem out of place. I hope someone with some design sense ( even following the recent half hearted alterations ) changes the studio.
Now I'm not sure about this but did the 99 "look" come from the same studio? It always looked so much more, well big. Compared with the current studio which I think appears squashed.
On the issue of the new 2008 newsroom having large windows and the threat of terrorism, I would remind you that the BBC has been the target of terrorists many a time, ala IRA Car Bomb outside TVC a few years ago and I'm sure security considerations would have been taken into account.
Right rant over...

Joel.
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noggin Founding member
Matrix posted:
benjy posted:
I'm sure if it were possible to have a real newsroom like News 24's in the background of the national set, they would use it instead of the fake one. But the location of the studio where the national comes from obviously does not permit this.

Having said that, if someone put their mind to it they could probably place some cameras somewhere in the newsroom to feed to the projectors, to make it look as if there is a real newsroom in the background. Although I imagine this could be very hard to do in practice.


Well it's been done before....
On the whole question of the national studio, the set, backdrop and giant screens just seem out of place. I hope someone with some design sense ( even following the recent half hearted alterations ) changes the studio.
Now I'm not sure about this but did the 99 "look" come from the same studio? It always looked so much more, well big. Compared with the current studio which I think appears squashed.
On the issue of the new 2008 newsroom having large windows and the threat of terrorism, I would remind you that the BBC has been the target of terrorists many a time, ala IRA Car Bomb outside TVC a few years ago and I'm sure security considerations would have been taken into account.
Right rant over...

Joel.


The current BBC One News studio has been in use since the last few months of the virtual blue cut glass "look". The studio was already on-air when the beige set with the "mirror image" projected newsroom backdrop was introduced, and has been the home of BBC One News programmes ever since.

One thing that may have made the previous set look bigger was that it was more "diagonal" than the current set, and in the early days it was shot in 4:3 - which to some viewers may look "bigger" than 16:9.

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