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It does have someone holding the camera in a "beneath the armpit" position. It's the camera that's normally on a rostrum in the half-heads/occasional sport heads position - the cable's tugged out a bit and round the corner. Camera 7 if you're a real anorak! It needs careful production and sensible camerawork to work, but I think it looks good.
By the way, that's EXACTLY the kind of thing News 24 was meant to be doing when it launched! All the ideas back in winter/spring 1997 involved presenters getting up from their desks, wandering off into the newsroom (now the World newsroom), finding reporters sitting at their desks and talking about them to the stories. Then reality set in, N24 realised that getting the right package to follow the right link was pushing the production systems right to their limit, and the idea was abandoned well before launch (9/11/97). The closest the channel ever got was occasional headlines from in front of the gallery (or "output suite" in late 90's BBC Newspeak), done from a remote camera above the set. But now it's happened - and you can bet it won't be abandoned after the election! It's fresh, has energy, a sense of being live, and a slight sense of risk (and that's real)....
Scruffy bunch of producers though, aren't they?
Got it to work, and it looks really good. Please News 24, keep doing it!
I liked Jon's comment, "here in the engine room, the grubby bit where the real work goes on"!
w12 posted:
Dave posted:
They did it again today at 4.25 ish and she said they will be doing it again tomorrow - i guess at the same time
They had someone holding the camera this time rather than controlling it from a remote place!
They had someone holding the camera this time rather than controlling it from a remote place!
It does have someone holding the camera in a "beneath the armpit" position. It's the camera that's normally on a rostrum in the half-heads/occasional sport heads position - the cable's tugged out a bit and round the corner. Camera 7 if you're a real anorak! It needs careful production and sensible camerawork to work, but I think it looks good.
By the way, that's EXACTLY the kind of thing News 24 was meant to be doing when it launched! All the ideas back in winter/spring 1997 involved presenters getting up from their desks, wandering off into the newsroom (now the World newsroom), finding reporters sitting at their desks and talking about them to the stories. Then reality set in, N24 realised that getting the right package to follow the right link was pushing the production systems right to their limit, and the idea was abandoned well before launch (9/11/97). The closest the channel ever got was occasional headlines from in front of the gallery (or "output suite" in late 90's BBC Newspeak), done from a remote camera above the set. But now it's happened - and you can bet it won't be abandoned after the election! It's fresh, has energy, a sense of being live, and a slight sense of risk (and that's real)....
Scruffy bunch of producers though, aren't they?
Got it to work, and it looks really good. Please News 24, keep doing it!
I liked Jon's comment, "here in the engine room, the grubby bit where the real work goes on"!