BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Normal for weekends, where some news bulletins are only a few minutes long on World (and therefore have no headlines sequence).

I've even seen bulletins on World with no titles at all, just straight from countdown to fixed shot of presenter with a 5 minute summary.

Yup, summaries on World only usually start with presenter in vision and no headlines. When they're on the news channel as well, they start with titles.

Once again putting other layouts *within* the pushback

I just don't like the way the live bug shrinks when they do that it must be because the live bit is embedded on the video

That massive drop shadow makes me cringe every time, It's like the 90's all over again.

Long shadows have appeared everywhere over the past couple of years. There are tutorials everywhere on how to do it.

long method, poor result ……..

LAYERSMAGAZINE.COM
25-Jul-2016 @ 01:35

better methods, nicer result ……..

AWWWARDS.COM
25-Jul-2016 @ 01:36

In these times where flat, 2D, non-skeuomorphic design is king, traditional drop shadows don't fit, so it makes sense they added a shadow in the way they did.

The NC (and thus BBC Two) took the World News bulletin at 11am, and continued to for about 7 minutes when they cut from the end of a Live on World News to a news conference already underway, citing sound problems - from the way everything was already underway it sounds like they did the thing mentioned previously where they continue as normal during technical problems even if they know something's wrong.

Only the news channel took the Sturgeon presser, BBC 2 stayed with World until half past.

Catching the beginning of the Newsnight repeat on the NC tonight, nice to see they've finally got the budget to power all their lights again - they've just been through a period where the set was ridiculously dark, things like the desk weren't lit up and so on, nice to see things are back to how they were a few years ago.

I only see the Newsnight compilation show on weekends. I think the lighting that they use is fine. The program is an interview show that airs after 10PM. A bright set would look a bit odd and quite frankly I think the color / lighting scheme adds a bit of drama to the look. If the traditional desk in studio B isn't used (maybe it's used but I haven't noticed it on weekends) why bother lighting it up and making it look like a sore thumb?

Compare these images - one from a while ago when they had a vendetta against lightbulbs, and this from when they first moved to NBH (which the lighting more closely resembles again):

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EecnfdrkyWg/VjSayCBZ0cI/AAAAAAAAPK8/jcNp7iVrCAQ/s1600/Shaky.PNG
http://www.annavalley.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/W1-install-637px-2.jpg

They're both dark, but I'd argue the first image shows the set as too dark.