SP
There are mics built into the desk for backup purposes, I believe. I can't imagine that there would be mics on the cameras.
RK
Once in a while you come across one where it’s been built up for backup or one hangs from the ceiling.
There are mics built into the desk for backup purposes, I believe. I can't imagine that there would be mics on the cameras.
Once in a while you come across one where it’s been built up for backup or one hangs from the ceiling.
NG
noggin
Founding member
System (i.e. studio and OB cameras) have audio channels and mic connectors built in to them to let you run with a camera mic (the audio is output at the CCU at the other end) - but you don't usually see mics installed on them in news studios (usually the cameras are quite distant). However they can be very useful on more handheld stuff - particularly on OBs (at least as a backup)
NG
Chances are it was a desk standby mic. BBC News have used a number of approaches (in-desk mics, on-desk PZMs that look a bit like a computer mouse, personal mics - aka LAVs - taped to the edge of a desk), slung standbys or standbys on stands just masked by the desk). At the catwalk I'd expect any standby to be slung from the lighting grid.
noggin
Founding member
Oh dear. Scratchy mic trouble for Carrie Gracie. Sounds like they've had to go to a camera mic (or mounted elsewhere in the studio), and during the first Roger Bannister VT she's gone to the other side of the studio (or is it just another camera angle?) which sounds even worse.
Chances are it was a desk standby mic. BBC News have used a number of approaches (in-desk mics, on-desk PZMs that look a bit like a computer mouse, personal mics - aka LAVs - taped to the edge of a desk), slung standbys or standbys on stands just masked by the desk). At the catwalk I'd expect any standby to be slung from the lighting grid.
ST
I spotted this lower thirds error on
'Business Briefing'
this morning. I am obviously more alert at 05:30 that I thought. 
http://i64.tinypic.com/nq3fba.jpg
http://i64.tinypic.com/nq3fba.jpg
NF
Incorrect. It was already there before that weekend.
I'm going to presume it's something that was overlooked when they were tidying up after they did whatever they did in E while the news channel decamped to D last weekend
Incorrect. It was already there before that weekend.
MI
Twice on tonight's Ten Fiona has stood to read a news on brief piece ahead of an intro to a piece from the catwalk. Usually I've seen these presented with a catwalk screen in the background showing a generic BBC news image. Tonight I couldn't tell whether the background was with Fiona standing at the desk or standing at the cat walk but a tighter image showing on a screen but of the background shot at the desk.
RK
Despite them being VizRT
I think deejay said Vizzies would never quite catch on.
Incorrect. It was already there before that weekend.
They look a bit disheveled / not quite level. I can’t tell if they are all solid or if some of them are vents. If it was me I’d repaint them black to be uniform.
I spotted this lower thirds error on
'Business Briefing'
this morning. I am obviously more alert at 05:30 that I thought.
http://i64.tinypic.com/nq3fba.jpg
http://i64.tinypic.com/nq3fba.jpg
Despite them being VizRT
I think deejay said Vizzies would never quite catch on.
I'm going to presume it's something that was overlooked when they were tidying up after they did whatever they did in E while the news channel decamped to D last weekend
Incorrect. It was already there before that weekend.
They look a bit disheveled / not quite level. I can’t tell if they are all solid or if some of them are vents. If it was me I’d repaint them black to be uniform.
DE
Ahem. Most BBC people still refer to captions as Astons despite the fact they’ve used Viz in news for lower thirds for years. Old habits die hard!
Same can be said for older directors cueing sound effects/music etc by saying ‘Go Grams’
That error looks like a bit of a copy/paste gone wrong to me.
Same can be said for older directors cueing sound effects/music etc by saying ‘Go Grams’
That error looks like a bit of a copy/paste gone wrong to me.
IS
Aston is the genericised trademark for 'caption' in the UK. The US has something similar, except they say Chryon,
NG
Same can be said for older directors cueing sound effects/music etc by saying ‘Go Grams’
Ironic that 'Go Grams' (from gramophone record) is still a regular command, but 'Go Tape' (which used to be heard every day in News, even though 1/4" had long since ceased to be used) has gone the way of all things.
noggin
Founding member
Same can be said for older directors cueing sound effects/music etc by saying ‘Go Grams’
Ironic that 'Go Grams' (from gramophone record) is still a regular command, but 'Go Tape' (which used to be heard every day in News, even though 1/4" had long since ceased to be used) has gone the way of all things.
MA
Same can be said for older directors cueing sound effects/music etc by saying ‘Go Grams’
Ironic that 'Go Grams' (from gramophone record) is still a regular command, but 'Go Tape' (which used to be heard every day in News, even though 1/4" had long since ceased to be used) has gone the way of all things.
Well, (and I've said this before in here) the term 'filmed' is used to describe electronic studio productions, which seems to be a relatively new thing, because it always used to be 'taped' or 'recorded'.
Same can be said for older directors cueing sound effects/music etc by saying ‘Go Grams’
Ironic that 'Go Grams' (from gramophone record) is still a regular command, but 'Go Tape' (which used to be heard every day in News, even though 1/4" had long since ceased to be used) has gone the way of all things.
Well, (and I've said this before in here) the term 'filmed' is used to describe electronic studio productions, which seems to be a relatively new thing, because it always used to be 'taped' or 'recorded'.