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RK
Rkolsen
sjhoward posted:
Brekkie posted:
There was something in the report released this week by the BBC about a need to switch the focus back to UK news during primetime on the news channel.



I think this is the relevant section of the Annual Plan (note also the graphics bit)...
BBC Annual Plan 2017/18 posted:
The BBC News Channel plays a central role for the BBC on major breaking news. It has refreshed its approach over the past two years, including the Victoria Derbyshire show (simulcast on BBC Two) which has broken numerous news stories and driven a broader agenda for BBC News; Business Live, a 30-minute digest of business news and interviews making full use of the BBC’s business journalists around the world; and new data graphics to improve the range of information displayed on screen. This year, it will include a refreshed focus on news from all the UK’s Nations and regions in the evenings, while developing on-screen presentation through the development of augmented reality graphics and further enhancements to on-screen information.


To me using augmented reality is more of a gimmick than anything useful. Yes it its cool during election night but if they keep using it the novelty wears off.

Aaron Heslehurst's new show does a sort of AR in a locked off camera shot with a cube like graphic in the studio next to him. It's neat but nothing a full screen, graphic on a monitor or an OTS couldn't convey.



I think I saw an image of the furious in Studios C & E that showed the model of the Furio head and that they are the VR type. So there's already a tracking bit of element there already in place. I assume they could use it to demo things on the desk.
IS
Inspector Sands
Is it really augmented reality is it's on the TV? Surely that's not what augmented reality is
SP
Steve in Pudsey
The way Sport do it with the league table or a picture of a player they are talking about appearing within the wide shot and the scale and perspective changing as the camera moves is a lot closer to AR.

However the example above is something more easily possible in a studio where everything is automated. You can predict the exact camera shot you're keying over and it will be consistent day in day out. This kind of faux AR is usually done by cutting to pre set up locked off shot rather than by having a pan move pause.
CR
Critique
Yes Newsnight experimented with this a few years ago, using a locked off shot to just be able to key out lots of the studio and make it look like the boiler room of a factory, for an example. There was nothing especially clever going on as once they switched to a different camera it all disappeared.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Yes not massively different to the way they mask out part of the high wide shot to hide cameras etc in Millbank (and elsewhere)
DA
davidhorman
BBC News have just mis-Google-map-zoomed the island of Dogo, one of the Oki islands, during a NIB about the island of Okinoshima, which is about 220 miles away.

That's what you get when you trust the first link you find on Wikipedia (the Oki islands were historically known as Okinoshima).
RN
Rolling News
News96 posted:
It looks like the filler countdown has had a slight update as just before the Early evening BBC1 Bulletin it showed newly updated shots of Clive Myrie and Carrie Gracie replacing the shots of Jon Sopel and President Obama (for obvious reasons) and Ian Panell (due to him leaving.)

One of the main countdowns has also had an update with the new shots of Carrie Gracie replacing the ones of Gavin Esler, due to him also leaving.
NE
News96
We might want to hold our horses on tonight being the last 100 Days+ as Christian Fraser said at the start that they were singing off for the summer-So a Summer break and then back in the first week of September then?
DV
dvboy
News96 posted:
We might want to hold our horses on tonight being the last 100 Days+ as Christian Fraser said at the start that they were singing off for the summer-So a Summer break and then back in the first week of September then?

Hopefully with better name.
NE
News96
dvboy posted:
News96 posted:
We might want to hold our horses on tonight being the last 100 Days+ as Christian Fraser said at the start that they were singing off for the summer-So a Summer break and then back in the first week of September then?

Hopefully with better name.


Funny you should say that as they have just asked the viewers for names for when they come back in September.
IS
Inspector Sands
The way things are going, what about 100 Pence? Laughing
GI
ginnyfan
Trump made a special appearance!

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